Principal Platform Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and evolve backend platform services, APIs, middleware, and integration frameworks for OCI.
• Define API versioning, lifecycle, and safe-rollout strategies to protect downstream consumers.
• Build scalable distributed systems to provision, upgrade, and manage Kubernetes clusters across regions.
• Establish reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development.
• Drive shared observability practices including service-level objectives, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues across networking, compute, and storage infrastructure.
• Develop automation, tooling, and testing frameworks to improve engineering productivity and service quality.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance on architecture, code quality, and operational practices.

What we're looking for

• Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
• A Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on backend, platform, or cloud services is required.
• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go is required.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and evolving production APIs or platform interfaces is required.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development practices is required.
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams is required.
• Experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, or developer-platform products (preferred).