Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer OCI

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

• We require a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• We look for 12+ years of professional software development experience, including success delivering complex, production-grade distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools at scale.
• We need strong programming ability in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.
• We value deep architecture and system design expertise, including experience evolving APIs, data models, and service ecosystems for scalability, availability, security, operability, and long-term business impact.
• We expect a solid grasp of cloud-native technologies, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering.
• We seek Senior Principal-level leadership, with the ability to define technical vision, influence executives and senior engineering leaders, align organizations, and drive sustained outcomes across complex systems.
• We require excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical ideas, build durable consensus, and influence decisions across organizational and functional boundaries.
• We are interested in experience with application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.
• We also value background in large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, workflow orchestration, platform architecture, or multi-year technology strategy.
• Additional experience in reliability engineering, production incident leadership, observability, capacity strategy, or performance engineering is a plus.
• Experience in security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation is beneficial.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety architecture and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems at enterprise scale is advantageous.

• We set the long-term architecture, technical strategy, and investment direction for core services and APIs that power our modern application deployment platform.
• We lead major multi-year platform initiatives that deliver resilient, scalable deployment workflows and reusable primitives for our teams and customers.
• We create alignment across organizations and senior stakeholders, translating complex and ambiguous business and technical challenges into clear platform strategy, engineering principles, and execution roadmaps.
• We define and promote platform-wide safety and reliability standards, including isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, recovery, and safe-by-default deployment patterns.
• We shape our approach to AI- and agent-assisted engineering by establishing scalable technical foundations, governance models, and safeguards that support innovation with appropriate human oversight.
• We identify and drive the highest-impact opportunities using operational data, customer needs, technology trends, and a deep understanding of the developer ecosystem.
• We act as an organizational multiplier through architecture leadership, technical mentorship, cross-team design governance, and the development of enduring engineering standards and talent.

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

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We are collaborating with Oracle to find exceptional professionals for this role. This position is based in Nashville, TN. OCI is transforming the developer platform experience, and we are building a new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, we offer the opportunity to help shape a greenfield platform with broad customer impact and a direct role in OCIs next phase of growth. Oracle US provides a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision coverage; disability and life insurance; health and dependent care flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off and holidays; paid sick leave; paid parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal support; and voluntary benefits such as auto, homeowner, and pet insurance. The hiring range in the US is $96,800 to $306,400 per annum, and the role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. This role is generally open for applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or while it remains posted.

last updated 37 week of 2026