Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $105,900–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 9 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today

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TL;DR · Principal Platform Software Engineer

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The Principal Platform Software Engineer- Oracle Health joins the Oracle Health Platform Engineering team to build and operate shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. This individual contributor role involves leading the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities while improving reliability and security posture. Key responsibilities include establishing engineering standards for API consistency, test strategies, and observability, as well as mentoring engineers through technical leadership. The role requires expertise in building distributed services, data modeling, and IAM-related service design, including token-based authentication and secrets management. Candidates should demonstrate proficiency in AI-assisted engineering to accelerate delivery. Technical requirements include experience with containerization, orchestration, and cloud platforms like OCI, AWS, or Azure to solve complex platform infrastructure and security problems.

What does a Platform Software Engineer earn?

Median $156000 from 139 postings across 5 companies.

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Skills

OCI AWS Azure GCP Containerization IAM API Design Data Modeling Secrets Management SLOs SLIs Observability

What you'll do

Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform services and shared components.
Own key technical decisions to ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and operability requirements.
Establish and improve engineering standards for API consistency, test strategies, deployment patterns, and observability.
Drive reliability improvements through SLO/SLI management, capacity planning, incident analysis, and automation.
Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness.
Apply AI-assisted engineering to accelerate design, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting across multiple projects.
Establish team patterns for AI-assisted development, including test generation and code review checklists.
Use AI to enhance operational excellence by automating repetitive tasks and improving incident triage workflows.

What we're looking for

BS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed services in production.
Strong system design skills including data modeling, API design, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical alignment across teams and deliver results in ambiguous problem spaces.
Strong IAM-related service design experience (preferred).
Experience building or integrating user provisioning, entitlement services, and audit logging (preferred).
Cloud experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP (preferred).

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