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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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890 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$102,300–$209,500
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As a Principal Software Engineer, Platform, you will join the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team to shape the platform foundations that enable services and consumers to work together reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives to design 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 resilience, and driving shared observability practices like service-level objectives and capacity planning. You will utilize proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go to build durable solutions. The role requires deep knowledge of distributed systems, data structures, and algorithms to solve complex cross-service issues, ensuring interoperability and secure software development across the cloud-native infrastructure.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2524 postings across 143 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 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).
Java
Go
Python
C++
C#
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native
Containers
CI/CD
GitOps
Infrastructure Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Workflow Orchestration
Java
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Cloud Architecture
Linux
Unix
NoSQL
Relational Databases
Cryptography
DevOps
Agile
API
System Design
High Availability Systems
Performance Tuning
Observability
SLOs