Principal Platform Software Engineer (OCI - Developer Platform)

Job Description Required to relocate to/be onsite in Nashville, TN. OCI is transforming the developer platform experience. We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to shape a greenfield platform with broad customer impact and a direct role in OCI’s next phase of growth. As a Principal Software Platform Engineer, you will define and drive the technical direction for reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform. You will align teams around durable platform primitives, remove systemic barriers to developer velocity, and establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems. This is a high-leverage Principal engineering role at the intersection of developer productivity, cloud reliability, and the future of software delivery. You will shape a platform that enables OCI teams and customers to deliver value more quickly and safely, while establishing a durable technical standard for trustworthy agentic engineering at cloud scale. Required qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of professional software development experience, including a record of leading the design and delivery of production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools. Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar. Deep experience designing APIs, data models, and service architectures with attention to scalability, availability, security, operability, and long-term evolution. Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts. Demonstrated technical leadership and ownership: you can define strategy, align stakeholders, drive execution across teams, and remain accountable for outcomes in production. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and build alignment across engineering disciplines and organizational boundaries. Preferred qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus. Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering. Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, workflow orchestration, or platform architecture. Site reliability engineering, production incident response, observability, capacity planning, or performance engineering at scale. Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation. AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or the design of safety controls and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems. Responsibilities Define the architecture and technical strategy for core services and APIs that power OCI’s modern application deployment platform. Lead the delivery of resilient, scalable deployment workflows and platform primitives that enable developers to safely ship changes across diverse environments and service architectures. Influence product and engineering direction across teams; translate ambiguous, multi-organization needs into clear technical strategies, design principles, and execution plans. Establish safety and reliability as platform defaults through strong isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, rollback and recovery paths, and thoughtful failure handling. Shape the technical foundations for AI- and agent-assisted engineering workflows, including appropriate controls, least-privilege access, governance, and human oversight. Use operational signals, customer feedback, and industry trends to identify high-leverage investments that improve developer experience, availability, performance, and deployment success rates. Raise the engineering bar across the organization through architecture reviews, technical mentorship, design standards, and pragmatic leadership on complex cross-team initiatives. Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion Short term disability and long term disability Life insurance and AD&D Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 11 paid holidays Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. Paid parental leave Adoption assistance Employee Stock Purchase Plan Financial planning and group legal Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. 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