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Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
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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 distributed systems, cloud computing, Docker, and Java to build scalable infrastructure and ensure system reliability. You will also provide technical leadership through code reviews, mentor less experienced engineers, and implement secure coding practices. This position focuses on solving complex architectural challenges related to API functionality, lifecycle management, and ensuring consistent performance across various workloads within a large-scale distributed environment.