Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s AI team to build and operate cloud platforms and services that power AI workloads at scale. In this IC5 individual-contributor role, you will own complex technical initiatives from architecture and implementation through production operations, translating ambiguous customer and business needs into secure, reliable, and efficient solutions. You will apply distributed systems expertise and hands-on software development, guide technical decisions across teams, and mentor engineers. You will help execute and improve all phases of the software development lifecycle, act as an organizational subject matter expert for software features and enhancements, ensure accessibility, and create documentation that clarifies software. Your work will shape shared platform capabilities, improve service performance and operational excellence, and deliver customer impact. Oracle takes an AI-forward approach to engineering. You will use AI throughout the software development lifecycle and help teams adopt effective AI-assisted workflows for design, coding, testing, review, debugging, and operations. These workflows must be paired with rigorous validation, sound engineering judgment, and accountability for production outcomes.

Requirements

Deep expertise in distributed systems.
Hands-on software development experience.
Ability to translate ambiguous customer and business needs into secure, reliable, and efficient solutions.
Ability to own complex technical initiatives from architecture and implementation through production operations.
Ability to guide technical decisions across teams and mentor engineers.
Ability to validate AI-generated code and recommendations through engineering review, automated testing, and security checks.
Use approved AI tools and protect sensitive information when using AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

Own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, from requirements and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operations.
Design and build distributed platforms and services for OCI AI workloads, balancing availability, latency, throughput, scalability, resource utilization, and cost.
Write and review critical production code, develop prototypes to resolve technical uncertainty, and lead resolution of complex engineering problems.
Establish shared platform capabilities and standards for identity, configuration, APIs, client libraries, interoperability, and lifecycle management.
Lead AI-driven engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, code review, debugging, documentation, and operational troubleshooting.
Build reusable AI-assisted tools and workflows; measure their impact on delivery speed, software quality, developer effort, and operational effectiveness.
Validate AI-generated code and recommendations through engineering review, automated testing, and security checks, using approved tools and protecting sensitive information.
Define testing and release strategies covering functionality, performance, security, resilience, and compatibility; establish quality evaluations and regression checks for AI capabilities where applicable.
Own production readiness and service health through service-level objectives, observability, capacity planning, safe deployments, rollback strategies, and incident response.
Partner with customers, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to prioritize needs, resolve issues, and deliver durable improvements.
Lead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions and engineering standards across teams.
Evaluate emerging technologies through practical experimentation and adopt approaches that demonstrate measurable customer and engineering value.
Improve execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle and coach engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.
Develop and guide software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensure accessibility, and develop documents to clarify software.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and AD&D.
Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused hours carrying over up to a maximum of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.