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Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
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As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will lead critical platform projects across multiple teams to evolve runtimes and middleware patterns for multi-tenant scale and interoperability. You will be responsible for defining versioning strategies, enforcing observability standards like SLOs and error budgets, and developing migration guides to improve developer experience. Your daily work involves designing software solutions, performing performance profiling, and troubleshooting complex API functionality issues while ensuring high availability through automated testing and robust security practices. To succeed in this role, you must possess expertise in Java SE 25, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript frameworks, alongside a deep understanding of networking fundamentals, software-defined networking, and architectural patterns. You will solve technical challenges related to system scalability and infrastructure consistency while providing high-level technical guidance and coaching to less experienced engineers across the organization.