Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$104,500–$234,600 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Below market

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This role $170k
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This role pays less than 79% of similar roles. Most pay $176,100–$231,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $204k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

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 expertise in architecting scalable systems, distributed software development, infrastructure system software, security architecture, and security software. You will also utilize Infrastructure as Code tools to ensure system reliability. This position focuses on solving technical challenges related to API functionality, lifecycle management, and ensuring consistent architectural standards across the ecosystem while providing high-level technical guidance and coaching to less experienced engineers.

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 impacts.
  • Establish shared observability baselines, including SLOs and error budgets, across multiple services.
  • Design and implement complex API lifecycle management and performance optimization strategies.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide technical coaching to junior engineers on architecture and best practices.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex cross-service issues and infrastructure maintenance requirements.
  • Develop migration guides and adoption playbooks to improve developer experience and ecosystem consistency.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 6 to 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Ability to read, write, and speak English.
  • Experience architecting scalable systems and distributed software development.
  • Expertise in infrastructure system software and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
  • Proficiency in security architecture and security software.
  • Ability to lead cross-team projects involving middleware patterns, versioning, and rollout strategies.
  • Ability to design, test, and optimize complex API functionality and integration.
  • Experience providing technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to less experienced engineers.

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