Principal Software Engineer(Hybrid)

Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for leading enterprises worldwide. Our cloud offers hyperscale multi-tenant services deployed across more than 50 regions globally. OCI continues to expand beyond traditional public-cloud boundaries to support dedicated hybrid and multicloud solutions edge computing and more.

As a Principal Platform Software Engineer you will shape the platform foundations that allow OCI services and their consumers to work together reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives involving APIs middleware runtimes integration frameworks and developer toolingsetting technical direction while delivering durable solutions that improve consistency compatibility and developer experience.

This position is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville Tennessee. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracles relocation policies.

Responsibilities

What Youll Do

• Lead the design development and evolution of backend platform services APIs middleware runtimes and integration frameworks used across OCI.
• Define and drive API versioning lifecycle deprecation and safe-rollout strategies that protect downstream consumers.
• Establish reusable patterns for interoperability multi-tenant scale resilience and secure software development across multiple services.
• Drive shared observability practices including service-level objectives error budgets monitoring and capacity planning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues; lead durable remediation and compatibility-safe migration plans.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions across teams through design reviews code reviews technical guidance and hands-on engineering.
• Create migration guides adoption playbooks documentation and examples that make platform capabilities straightforward to adopt.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality of designs code operational practices and technical decision-making across the organization.

What Youll Bring

• Bachelors or masters degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on backend platform or cloud services.
• Strong experience designing highly available scalable distributed systems and evolving production APIs or platform interfaces.
• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java C C# or Go.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals object-oriented design data structures algorithms and secure software-development practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams.

• Strong judgment in ambiguous environments a high degree of ownership and clear written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservices SDKs RESTful APIs containers cloud-native deployments or developer-platform products.
• Experience defining or operating SLOs error budgets observability standards and capacity plans.
• Experience with API interoperability backward compatibility migrations or platform-adoption programs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across multiple teams

Qualifications
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: $104500 to $234600 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 Oracles 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:
1. Medical dental and vision insurance including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.

Career Level - IC4

Required Experience:

Staff IC