Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Santa Clara, CA

4d•$96,800 - $306,400

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 minimize downstream risk; defines shared observability frameworks, service-level objectives, and capacity models; and develops architectural guardrails, security controls, and reference implementations in partnership with SRE and security teams. The position leads software development, architecture, operational reliability, and customer issue resolution across teams. It provides technical direction, coaching, and subject-matter expertise; influences strategic technical decisions; advances security and compliance practices; and drives high-impact projects and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to talent development and hiring decisions. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, and the U.S. hiring range stated in the posting is $96,800 to $306,400 per annum, with possible eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, or Microsoft Azure.
Strong understanding of Linux or Windows administration, networking, storage, and cloud security.
Experience monitoring system availability, performance, capacity, and costs.
Ability to troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Experience automating with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience managing cloud infrastructure, monitoring performance, troubleshooting incidents, automating operations, and ensuring security, reliability, and availability.
Expertise in software development, architecture, API functionality and integration, software testing, observability, and secure development practices, as reflected in the responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance.
Own 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 to identify requirements, design solutions, and create foundational code or prototypes.
Improve software development lifecycle execution and coach engineers across teams.
Guide software feature development and enhancements, ensure accessibility, and document software design and code.
Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and products.
Debug and troubleshoot complex software issues using modern and emerging technologies.
Lead initiatives to improve software testing, quality assurance, error logging, monitoring, and observability.
Promote innovation and industry practices that optimize performance across products and domains.
Resolve complex API functionality and integration issues; implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Lead design and development of software, systems, and services; define and review project scope and design recommendations.
Provide architectural guidance, expertise, mentorship, and coaching to teams and peers.
Conduct complex periodic architecture reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align architecture with business and customer goals.
Develop performance optimization and scalability strategies, and research technologies for architectural enhancements.
Lead investigation of customer issues, root causes, mitigations, and solutions; provide technical guidance to customers and advocate for customer interests.
Guide strategic customer issue and defect handling, training, and product maintenance solutions.
Partner with security and leadership teams to improve development practices and coding standards; coach team members.
Lead peer reviews and initiatives that ensure quality and adherence to acceptance criteria.
Implement complex secure development practices and solutions, including automated measures to prevent vulnerabilities.
Lead periodic system maintenance and testing, including upgrades and security patching.
Drive automation, testing, debugging, availability, health, support, and reliability improvements for systems and services.
Direct timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets for critical, high-impact initiatives; adapt plans to changing priorities.
Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, build partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
Lead advanced problem-solving and escalation efforts; guide data-driven root-cause analysis and preventive solutions.
Serve as a thought leader, track emerging technologies and standards, share knowledge, and mentor others.
Develop and implement process improvements, evaluate their effectiveness, and define success metrics.
Contribute expertise to talent strategy, interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.
Monitor cloud infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and costs; troubleshoot production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
Use infrastructure-as-code and automation tools to automate operations and help ensure security, reliability, and availability.