Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $104,500–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 51 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $170k

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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

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As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will lead critical platform projects across multiple teams to evolve middleware patterns and runtimes for multi-tenant scale. You will be responsible for designing software solutions, managing the full development lifecycle, and ensuring high standards for versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Your daily work involves troubleshooting complex cross-service issues, implementing advanced API versioning strategies, and establishing shared observability baselines like SLOs and error budgets. You will also produce migration guides and adoption playbooks to improve developer experience. The role requires expertise in performance profiling, scalability strategies, and secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities. By focusing on infrastructure consistency and system reliability, you solve complex technical challenges related to interoperability and large-scale service management while providing mentorship and technical leadership to less experienced engineers across the organization.

Skills

API Middleware Observability Performance Profiling Secure Coding Debugging Troubleshooting Scalability Software Testing Quality Assurance

What you'll do

Lead the evolution of middleware patterns and runtimes to standardize interoperability across multiple teams.
Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies to ensure system stability.
Establish shared observability baselines, including SLOs and error budgets, for various workloads.
Design and implement complex API versioning, lifecycle management, and performance optimization strategies.
Conduct deep-dive debugging and troubleshooting to resolve complex cross-service issues and defects.
Create migration guides and adoption playbooks to improve developer experience and ecosystem consistency.
Provide technical leadership and coaching to junior engineers on architecture and coding standards.
Perform system maintenance, including patching for critical vulnerabilities and automating deployment processes.

What we're looking for

Must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
Must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Experience leading cross-team projects involving middleware patterns, runtimes, and multi-tenant scalability is required.
Ability to design, develop, and optimize complex software systems while ensuring high availability and performance.
Proficiency in implementing API versioning, lifecycle management, and interoperability strategies.
Expertise in establishing observability standards, including SLOs and error budgets, across multiple services.
Experience in identifying and resolving complex cross-service issues and performing performance profiling.
Ability to provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to less experienced engineers.

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