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versus about
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for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
Oracle currently has
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Listed pay typically runs
$102,300–$209,500
across 336 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will lead critical platform projects across multiple teams to evolve middleware patterns and runtimes for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. You will be responsible for designing software solutions, enforcing versioning and rollout strategies, and establishing shared observability baselines like SLOs and error budgets. Your daily work involves troubleshooting complex cross-service issues, performing performance profiling, and developing migration guides to improve developer experience. The role requires advanced expertise in Java SE 25, Node.js, Python, and JavaScript frameworks, alongside a deep understanding of networking fundamentals and software-defined networking. You will solve technical challenges related to API functionality, scalability, and security while providing architectural guidance and coaching to less experienced engineers to ensure system reliability across various workloads within the platform ecosystem.
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