Principal Platform Software Engineer (OCI Developer Platform)

Description

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 OCIs 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 engineeringwithout 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:Bachelors 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 OCIs 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.

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