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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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

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The Principal Platform Software Engineer joins the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to build a next-generation artifact management platform for internal libraries and build artifacts. This role involves providing technical leadership to design and implement a scalable, highly available system that manages, migrates, updates, replicates, and serves artifacts. You will develop strategies for migrating petabytes of historical data from legacy systems while ensuring data consistency and integrity. Key responsibilities include integrating the platform with CI/CD workflows, defining monitoring and disaster recovery practices, and mentoring engineers. The position requires expertise in designing scalable distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, artifact repositories, and developer productivity platforms. You will solve complex problems regarding high request volumes and strict availability requirements to support internal service teams and deployment workflows.

What does a Platform Software Engineer earn?

Median $162775 from 120 postings across 5 companies.

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Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Distributed Systems CI/CD Artifact Management Cloud Infrastructure Data Migration Disaster Recovery Monitoring Alerting

What you'll do

Design and implement highly scalable services to handle high request volumes and large artifact datasets.
Develop and execute strategies to migrate petabytes of historical artifacts from legacy systems while ensuring data integrity.
Integrate the artifact management platform with OCI’s CI/CD workflows and internal deployment systems.
Lead design discussions, drive technical decisions, and provide high-quality code and design reviews.
Define monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery, and reliability practices for production environments.
Track adoption and performance metrics to drive continuous improvements in scalability and customer experience.

What we're looking for

Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Candidates must have 6 to 10+ 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 (preferred).
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 engineers are required.

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