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The Principal Platform Software Engineer joins the OCI Incident Response team to maintain high availability for cloud services by detecting, triaging, and mitigating service-impacting events. This role involves solving complex infrastructure problems, automating common tasks to ensure continuous availability, and coordinating subject matter experts during major incidents. The engineer will design and deliver a mission-critical stack focused on security, resiliency, scalability, and performance while defining technical architectures for large-scale distributed systems. Key requirements include experience in modern object-oriented programming, public cloud operations, and automation principles. Technical skills include proficiency with infrastructure tools like Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform, alongside expertise in CI/CD systems, Docker, RESTful APIs, log analysis, and debugging tools. The role addresses the critical challenge of reducing incident duration through automated management and proactive system improvements within a complex cloud environment.