Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•United States,

4d•$96,800 - $306,400

About The Position

Leads cross-group platform initiatives, such as identity, configuration, and API gateways, with significant impact on reliability, performance, and compliance. Anticipates and resolves ambiguous distributed-systems problems and establishes compatibility and deprecation strategies to reduce downstream risk. Creates shared observability frameworks, service-level objectives, and capacity models used by multiple teams. Defines architectural guardrails, security controls, and reference implementations in partnership with SRE and security teams. The role provides technical leadership across software development, architecture, customer issue resolution, security and compliance, and system maintenance. It leads design and delivery of foundational software and services, promotes quality and accessibility, guides architecture and code reviews, and drives testing, monitoring, performance, scalability, and API lifecycle improvements. It also provides expert guidance to customers and internal teams on complex issues, establishes secure development practices, and leads maintenance and reliability improvements. The position coordinates high-impact initiatives, aligning timelines, deliverables, resources, and stakeholders. It serves as an escalation point for complex problems, champions continuous improvement and learning, shares industry expertise, mentors engineers, and contributes to talent assessment and hiring decisions. Oracle lists a U.S. hiring range of $96,800 to $306,400 per annum. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle describes a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, paid holidays and sick leave, parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning and group legal benefits, and voluntary insurance benefits.

Responsibilities

Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance.
Lead cross-group platform programs, including identity, configuration, and API gateway standards, with measurable reliability and performance impact.
Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by multiple teams, and manage deprecation risk.
Lead software initiatives, analyze requirements, and define foundational code for projects or prototypes.
Improve software development lifecycle execution and coach engineers across teams or organizational units.
Guide software features and enhancements according to design specifications, ensure accessibility, and document software design and code.
Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and products or services.
Use modern and emerging technologies to debug and resolve highly complex software issues.
Lead initiatives to optimize software testing, quality assurance, error logging, monitoring, and observability.
Promote innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.
Resolve complex API functionality and integration issues; implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Lead the design and development of software, systems, and services; define scope and review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Provide architectural guidance, domain expertise, mentorship, and coaching to teams and peers.
Conduct complex reviews to ensure adherence to architectural standards.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align software architecture with business and customer goals.
Implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
Research and evaluate technology, translating findings into architectural decisions and plans with organizational impact.
Lead efforts to understand customer issues, identify root causes, and determine mitigations; provide technical guidance to prevent recurrence.
Advocate for customer interests and recommend product enhancements based on feedback; coordinate timely issue resolution and communication.
Guide strategic customer issue and defect handling solutions and training processes, and investigate complex product maintenance issues.
Partner with security and leadership teams to establish and improve development practices and coding standards, and coach less experienced team members.
Provide technical leadership in peer reviews and initiatives that ensure quality and adherence to development criteria.
Apply and share industry best practices for software development.
Implement complex secure software development practices and solutions, using automation to help prevent security vulnerabilities.
Lead periodic maintenance and testing initiatives for systems requiring upgrades or patches, including for critical vulnerabilities.
Drive system automation, testing, and debugging improvements that support service and product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Direct timelines, deliverables, and budgets where applicable for critical, high-impact initiatives; anticipate changing priorities and plan for shifts in resources or timelines.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to align on strategic objectives and foster long-term partnerships.
Lead advanced, data-driven problem solving for ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and implement preventative solutions.
Monitor emerging trends, technologies, and standards; contribute thought leadership and promote knowledge sharing and professional development.
Develop and implement process improvements, evaluate their effectiveness, and create metrics to measure success.
Advise on talent needs and organizational talent strategy; contribute expertise to interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.