Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•United States,

6d•$113,600 - $306,400

About The Position

The Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer drives cross-group platform initiatives, including identity, configuration, and API gateways, with significant impact on reliability, performance, and compliance. The role anticipates and resolves ambiguous distributed-systems problems, sets compatibility and deprecation strategies to minimize downstream risk, establishes shared observability frameworks, service-level objectives (SLOs), and capacity models used by multiple teams, and defines architectural guardrails, security controls, and reference implementations in partnership with SRE and security teams. The engineer leads software development and architecture initiatives, establishes platform interoperability and client-library governance, and provides technical direction, coaching, and subject-matter expertise across teams. The position also leads complex issue resolution, customer-support and defect-handling strategies, security and compliance practices, system maintenance and reliability improvements, and high-impact project planning. It works with internal and external stakeholders to align architecture and solutions with organizational and customer goals, while promoting continuous learning, improvement, and talent 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, with measurable reliability and performance impact.
Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by multiple teams, and manage deprecation risk.
Lead project initiatives to design software solutions, identify and analyze requirements, and define foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
Improve execution across all phases of the software development lifecycle and coach engineers across teams or units.
Guide the development of software features and enhancements, ensure accessibility, and create documentation that clarifies software design and code.
Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects or products and services.
Use modern and emerging technologies to debug and troubleshoot highly complex software issues.
Lead strategic 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 and systematic API functionality and integration issues; implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Lead design and development initiatives for software, systems, and services; define scope and review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Provide technical guidance, domain expertise, mentorship, and coaching on architecture decisions and best practices.
Conduct complex periodic architecture reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align software architecture with business and customer goals and priorities.
Implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
Research and evaluate technology for architectural enhancements and translate findings into decisions and plans with organizational impact.
Lead efforts with stakeholders to understand customer issues, identify root causes, determine mitigations, and explain solution rationale.
Provide expert technical guidance and support to customers on reported issues to help prevent recurrence.
Advocate for customer interests and recommend product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.
Coordinate across lines of business to support customer satisfaction through timely issue resolution and effective communication.
Guide strategic customer issue and defect handling solutions and training processes.
Investigate and troubleshoot complex, broadly reaching product maintenance issues and secure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.
Work with security and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve development practices and coding standards, coaching less experienced team members.
Participate in peer reviews and lead initiatives that ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria.
Apply and share industry best practices in software development processes.
Implement complex secure software development practices and solutions, using automated approaches to help prevent security vulnerabilities.
Lead periodic system maintenance and testing initiatives, including upgrades and patches for critical vulnerabilities.
Drive improvements and automation in system testing and debugging to maintain service and product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Manage and direct timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets for critical high-impact projects; anticipate resource or timeline changes as business priorities shift.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to align on strategic objectives, foster partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Lead advanced problem-solving as an escalation point for complex issues; guide data-driven root-cause analysis and implementation of preventive solutions.
Serve as an organizational thought leader, monitor emerging trends and standards, share knowledge, and mentor others in applying new knowledge.
Develop and implement process improvements, evaluate their effectiveness, and design metrics to measure results.
Provide subject-matter expertise on talent needs and strategy; contribute to interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.