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About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
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The Principal Software Engineer, Platform will join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to shape the platform foundations that enable services and consumers to work together reliably at scale. This role involves leading cross-team initiatives to design, develop, and evolve backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks. Key responsibilities include defining API versioning strategies, establishing reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale and resilience, and driving shared observability practices like service-level objectives and capacity planning. The successful candidate will utilize proficiency in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go. They must possess deep knowledge of distributed-systems fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms to solve complex cross-service issues and improve developer experience within a cloud-native deployment environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Lead the design, development, and evolution of backend platform services, APIs, middleware, and runtimes.
Define and drive API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout strategies for downstream consumers.
Establish reusable patterns for interoperability, multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development.
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 and technical decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and hands-on engineering.
Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, and documentation to simplify platform adoption.
Mentor engineers to improve design quality, code, operational practices, and technical decision-making.
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
Java
C++
C#
Go
RESTful APIs
Microservices
distributed-systems
Containers
Cloud-native
Observability
Service Reliability Engineering
Source Control
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
C++
C#
Go
RESTful APIs
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Containers
Cloud-native
Observability
SLOs
Middleware
SDKs
API Versioning
Data Structures
Algorithms