Lead Platform Software Engineer (OCI)

Salary: $96,800 - 306,400 per year Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience, with a record of designing and delivering complex, production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools at significant scale.
• Strong programming ability in one or more modern languages, such as Java, Go, C++, C#, or Python.
• Deep expertise in architecture and system design, including evolving APIs, data models, and service ecosystems for scalability, availability, security, operability, and lasting business value.
• Solid knowledge of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering.
• Senior Principal-level leadership experience, including setting technical direction, influencing executives and senior engineering leaders, aligning organizations, and delivering sustained results across complex systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clarify complex technical topics, build consensus, and influence decisions across organizational and functional boundaries.
• Preferred: Experience with application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.
• Preferred: Experience with large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, workflow orchestration, platform architecture, or multi-year technology strategy.
• Preferred: Experience in reliability engineering, production incident leadership, observability, capacity strategy, or performance engineering for critical cloud infrastructure.
• Preferred: Experience in security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.
• Preferred: Experience with AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety architecture and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems at enterprise scale.

• Set the long-term architecture, technical strategy, and investment direction for the core services and APIs behind OCIs modern application deployment platform.
• Lead pivotal, multi-year platform initiatives that deliver resilient, scalable deployment workflows and reusable capabilities for OCI teams and customers.
• Build alignment among organizations and senior stakeholders, translating ambiguous business and technical challenges into a clear platform strategy, engineering principles, and execution plans.
• Establish and champion platform-wide safety and reliability standards covering isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, recovery, and safe-by-default deployment patterns.
• Shape OCIs approach to AI- and agent-assisted engineering by developing scalable technical foundations, governance models, and safeguards that enable innovation with appropriate human oversight.
• Identify and pursue high-impact opportunities informed by operational data, customer needs, technology trends, and knowledge of the developer ecosystem.
• Multiply organizational impact through architecture leadership, technical mentorship, cross-team design governance, and the development of lasting engineering standards and talent.

• AI
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• GitOps
• Support
• Java
• Oracle
• Python
• Security

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with Oracle. At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we are building a new application deployment system as a foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on our cloud. As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, you will help shape this greenfield platform and support OCIs next phase of growth. This is an IC5 role based in Nashville, Tennessee. The U.S. hiring range for the stated locations is $96,800–$306,400 per year; the role may also be eligible for a bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Our U.S. benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life coverage; flexible spending accounts; commuter benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off, holidays, and sick leave; parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal services; and voluntary insurance options. Certain U.S.-based or customer-facing roles may be subject to applicable immunization or occupational health and drug-testing requirements. Applications are generally accepted for at least three calendar days after the posting date or while the role remains posted.

last updated 42 week of 2026