Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$104,500–$234,600 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
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This role $170k
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This role pays less than 59% of similar roles. Most pay $162,875–$216,300 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $190k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to design and build a next-generation artifact management platform for internal libraries and build artifacts. This critical system supports essential build, deployment, and security patching workflows across various internal service teams. You will provide technical leadership by designing scalable services capable of handling high request volumes and large datasets while migrating petabytes of historical data from legacy systems to the new infrastructure. Your daily work involves ensuring data consistency, integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and establishing operational excellence through monitoring and disaster recovery practices. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, artifact repositories, and developer productivity platforms. You will drive technical decisions, mentor engineers, and ensure the platform maintains high availability and reliability while managing complex, cross-team initiatives to solve large-scale data migration challenges.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement highly scalable services for managing large artifact datasets and high request volumes.
  • Execute strategies to migrate petabytes of historical artifacts from legacy systems while ensuring data integrity.
  • Integrate the artifact management platform with internal CI/CD workflows and deployment systems.
  • Lead technical design discussions, drive architectural decisions, and provide high-quality code reviews.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across complex, cross-team initiatives.
  • Define monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery, and reliability practices for large-scale operations.
  • Analyze usage patterns and performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in platform scalability.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of experience.
  • Proven experience is required in designing and building scalable distributed systems.
  • A strong background in cloud infrastructure is required, preferably Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems, artifact repositories, or developer productivity platforms is required.
  • Experience with large-scale data migration, data consistency, and production rollout strategies is required.
  • Strong technical leadership skills including architecture ownership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring are required.

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