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Description

PRINCIPAL PLATFORM SOFTWARE ENGINEER (IC4)

OCI Log Analytics - Query Language and Distributed Execution

Location: Nashville Tennessee
Work Arrangement: On-site Monday through Friday
On-Call Requirement: Participation in the teams on-call rotation is required
Relocation: Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates

POSITION OVERVIEW

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Log Analytics is a cloud-scale observability platform that enables customers to search analyze and derive actionable insights from massive volumes of machine-generated data. Its query language supports advanced capabilities including clustering anomaly detection natural language processing statistical analysis and time-series analysis across terabytes of log data.

We are seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to help shape the architecture query language and distributed execution platform behind these this role you will solve complex engineering problems involving query processing distributed systems machine learning and generative AI.

You will also have opportunities to develop AI agents and agentic workflows that make large-scale log investigation and operational troubleshooting faster more intuitive and more effective.

This is a production-facing engineering role based in Nashville Tennessee. The selected candidate must work on-site Monday through Friday and participate in the teams on-call rotation. Candidates who are interested in relocating to Nashville are encouraged to apply. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead the architecture design and development of OCI Log Analytics query-language capabilities including parsing planning optimization and distributed execution.

Build scalable systems that execute advanced analytics and machine-learning algorithms across terabytes of data while meeting demanding latency availability and cost-efficiency requirements.

Design and develop AI agents and agentic workflows that translate user intent into effective queries investigate complex operational issues and surface actionable insights.

Architect secure resilient multi-tenant cloud services with appropriate fault tolerance replication throttling load shedding and automated recovery.

Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across query execution indexing storage retrieval and analytics pipelines.

Define performance scalability correctness availability and reliability requirements.

Develop load stress fault-injection recovery and performance tests that validate system behavior at scale.

Establish service-level objectives telemetry dashboards and alerts that support operational excellence.

Lead the investigation and root-cause analysis of complex production issues and drive corrective and preventive improvements.

Participate in the teams on-call rotation respond to production incidents restore service health and help maintain the reliability and availability of OCI services.

Collaborate with product managers architects software engineers site reliability engineers security teams and adjacent OCI Observability organizations.

Provide technical leadership mentor engineers promote engineering best practices and contribute to hiring and talent development.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors masters or doctoral degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Six or more years of software engineering experience including experience designing building and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Strong programming expertise in Java Python or both.

Experience building cloud-scale multi-tenant products or services that support high-throughput concurrent processing.

Strong understanding of distributed computing large-scale data processing system reliability performance optimization and the complete service development and operations lifecycle.

Demonstrated ability to design systems for scalability elasticity availability durability security and cost efficiency.

Familiarity with modern AI-assisted software development and a practical understanding of large language models AI agents tool use and interoperability protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A).

Strong analytical problem-solving collaboration and written and verbal communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership and deliver results in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.

Ability and willingness to participate in the teams on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Ability to work on-site in Nashville Tennessee Monday through Friday.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience building observability logging search analytics or query-processing platforms.

Experience scaling machine-learning statistical or analytical algorithms across very large datasets.

Experience with technologies such as Kafka Lucene Solr Spark Parquet Kubernetes or Terraform.

Experience designing or building query languages compilers query planners distributed execution engines indexing systems or information-retrieval platforms.

Proven success improving the performance scalability reliability resiliency and recovery characteristics of large-scale production systems.

Experience developing AI agents generative AI applications retrieval systems or natural-language interfaces for technical products.

LOCATION RELOCATION AND ON-CALL EXPECTATIONS

This position requires working on-site at Oracles Nashville Tennessee location Monday through Friday. This is not a remote or hybrid position.

Candidates who do not currently live in the Nashville area must be willing to relocate. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

Participation in the teams on-call rotation is required. The engineer will respond to production incidents troubleshoot complex service issues restore service health and implement improvements that reduce the likelihood and impact of future incidents.

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