Principal Software Engineer, Platform

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
Location: Nashville, TN
Salary: $104,500–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 3 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $170k

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Platform

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As a Principal Software Engineer, Platform, you will join the team responsible for shaping the foundational infrastructure that enables cloud services and their consumers to operate reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives to design and evolve backend platform services, including APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks while establishing reusable patterns for multi-tenant scalability and resilience. Your daily work involves defining API lifecycle strategies, driving shared observability practices like service-level objectives and capacity planning, and mentoring engineers on technical decision-making. You will utilize skills in object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go to build distributed systems. The role focuses on solving complex cross-service issues and ensuring backward compatibility within a cloud infrastructure environment, specifically addressing the challenges of high availability and seamless developer experience for large-scale platform capabilities.

What does a Software Engineer earn?

Median $197400 from 2246 postings across 139 companies.

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Skills

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Java C++ C# Go RESTful APIs Microservices Containers Cloud-native Distributed Systems Middleware SDKs Observability SLOs Capacity Planning API Versioning Data Structures Algorithms

What you'll do

Design and evolve backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks.
Define API versioning, lifecycle management, and safe-rollout strategies for downstream consumers.
Establish reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development.
Drive shared observability practices including service-level objectives, error budgets, and capacity planning.
Resolve complex cross-service issues and lead durable remediation or migration plans.
Influence architecture and technical decisions through design reviews and hands-on engineering.
Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, and documentation to simplify platform usage.
Mentor engineers to improve code quality, operational practices, and technical decision-making.

What we're looking for

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 impact on backend, platform, or cloud services.
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.
Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, high ownership, and clear written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, or developer-platform products (preferred); experience defining SLOs, error budgets, observability standards, and capacity plans (preferred).

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