Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $104,500–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 28 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live 2 days ago
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

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As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will lead platform projects across multiple teams to evolve runtimes and middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. You will be responsible for designing software solutions, performing performance profiling, and implementing complex API versioning and lifecycle strategies. Your daily work involves diagnosing cross-service issues, establishing observability baselines like SLOs and error budgets, and creating migration guides to improve developer experience. The role requires advanced expertise in Java, cloud engineering, algorithm analysis, and core algorithms to build scalable systems. You will also provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring adherence to architectural standards. This position focuses on solving critical infrastructure challenges by enforcing robust rollout practices, promoting secure coding, and maintaining system reliability across various workloads within a complex software ecosystem.

Skills

Java Cloud Engineering Software Architecture API Observability SLOs Performance Profiling Middleware Scalability Algorithm Analysis Debugging Troubleshooting Secure Coding

What you'll do

Lead the evolution of middleware patterns and runtimes to ensure multi-tenant scalability and interoperability.
Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies to minimize downstream system breaks.
Establish shared observability baselines, including SLOs and error budgets, across multiple services.
Design and implement complex API versioning, lifecycle management, and performance optimization strategies.
Conduct deep-dive debugging and troubleshooting for complex cross-service issues and infrastructure 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 critical vulnerabilities and automating testing for service reliability.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates must have 3 to 5+ years of experience.
Proficiency in Java is required.
Expertise in software architecture design is required.
Experience in cloud engineering is required.
Knowledge of core algorithms and algorithm analysis is required.
Strong skills in general software engineering are required.

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