Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer drives cross-group platform initiatives, such as identity, configuration, and API gateways, with significant impact on reliability, performance, and compliance. The role anticipates and resolves ambiguous distributed-systems problems; establishes compatibility and deprecation strategies to reduce downstream risk; and creates shared observability frameworks, service-level objectives, and capacity models used by multiple teams. In partnership with Site Reliability Engineering and security, the engineer defines architectural guardrails, security controls, and reference implementations. The role leads software design and development initiatives, sets platform interoperability and client-library governance standards, and owns programs with measurable reliability and performance outcomes. It provides organization-wide technical leadership in software architecture, coding, testing, optimization, API lifecycle management, customer issue resolution, security and compliance practices, and system maintenance. The engineer also guides cross-functional planning and execution, addresses complex escalations, champions continuous improvement and learning, and contributes to talent assessment and development.

Responsibilities

Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance.
Own cross-group programs such as identity, configuration, and API gateway standards, delivering measurable reliability and performance impact.
Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by multiple teams, and manage deprecation risk.
Lead software initiatives from requirements analysis and solution design through foundational coding, testing, optimization, and delivery.
Improve software development lifecycle execution and coach engineers across teams.
Guide software features and enhancements, ensure accessibility, and document software designs and code.
Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and products.
Troubleshoot complex software issues and lead initiatives to improve testing, quality assurance, logging, monitoring, and observability.
Develop API functionality, integration, versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Define project and design scope; review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Provide architectural guidance and mentorship, and align software architecture with business and customer goals.
Develop performance optimization and scalability strategies and evaluate technologies for architectural improvements.
Lead customer issue investigations, root-cause analysis, mitigation, and communication; advise on product enhancements based on customer feedback.
Collaborate with security and leadership teams to improve development practices, coding standards, and secure software solutions.
Lead maintenance, upgrade, patching, automation, testing, and debugging initiatives to ensure service availability, health, support, and reliability.
Manage timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical, high-impact projects, adjusting plans as priorities change.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, foster partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Lead advanced problem-solving and escalations, identify root causes, and implement solutions that prevent recurrence.
Monitor emerging trends and standards, share knowledge, mentor others, and contribute industry thought leadership.
Drive and measure continuous improvement in organizational processes, protocols, and workflows.
Contribute expertise to talent strategy, interviews, candidate assessment, hiring decisions, and employee development.