below marketmost similar roles pay hereabove market
This role pays less than
60%
of similar roles. Most pay
$165,000–$214,500
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$170k
versus about
$190k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
Oracle currently has
561 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$102,300–$234,600
across 436 roles with salary data.
As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will join the team responsible for shaping the platform foundations that allow OCI services and their consumers to work together reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives to design, develop, and evolve backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks. Your daily work involves defining API versioning strategies, establishing reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, and driving shared observability practices like SLOs and error budgets. You will utilize proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go to build durable solutions while mentoring engineers and conducting code reviews. This role solves critical technical problems regarding interoperability, resilience, and secure software development, ensuring that platform capabilities remain consistent and compatible across the entire cloud infrastructure.
Lead the design, development, and evolution of backend platform services, APIs, middleware, and runtimes.
Define and enforce API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout strategies for downstream consumers.
Establish reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development across multiple services.
Drive shared observability practices including service-level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues and lead durable remediation or migration plans.
Influence architecture through design reviews, code reviews, and providing technical guidance to other teams.
Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, and documentation to simplify the adoption of platform capabilities.
Mentor engineers to improve the quality of designs, code, and operational practices across the organization.
What we're looking for
Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on backend, platform, or cloud services.
Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and evolving production APIs or platform interfaces.
Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development practices.
Demonstrated experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams.
Experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, or developer-platform products (preferred).
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
Kubernetes
Docker
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
CI/CD
Infrastructure-as-Code
Microservices
Distributed Systems
RAG
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Data Pipelines
Event-Driven Architecture
Observability