Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

2h•$113,600 - $306,400

About The Position

Drives 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 sets compatibility and deprecation strategies to minimize downstream risk. Establishes shared observability frameworks, service-level objectives (SLOs), and capacity models used by multiple teams. Defines architectural guardrails, security controls, and reference implementations in partnership with SRE and security teams. Leads platform software development, software design and coding, architecture, customer issue and defect collaboration, security and compliance practices, and development operations. Provides technical leadership, guidance, and coaching across teams; drives strategic initiatives and continuous improvement; and partners with stakeholders to align software architecture and solutions with organizational and customer goals. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package. The stated U.S. hiring range is $113,600 to $306,400 per annum, with possible eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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 numerous teams, and manage deprecation risk.
Lead project initiatives to design software solutions, identify and analyze requirements, and write foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
Improve execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle and coach engineers across teams or units.
Guide software features and enhancements according to design specifications, ensure accessibility, and develop documentation clarifying software design and code.
Lead process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and products or services.
Use modern or emerging technologies to debug and troubleshoot highly complex software issues.
Lead strategic initiatives to optimize software testing, quality assurance, error logging, monitoring, and observability.
Encourage innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.
Resolve highly complex API functionality and integration issues, and implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Lead software, systems, and services design and development initiatives; define scope and review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Provide technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching on architecture decisions and best practices, and mentor small teams and peers.
Conduct complex periodic 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, root causes, and mitigations, and explain the rationale for solutions.
Provide expert technical guidance and customer support regarding reported issues to mitigate recurrence.
Advocate for customer interests and recommend product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.
Coordinate across business lines to support customer satisfaction through timely issue resolution and effective communication.
Guide strategic customer issue and defect handling and training processes.
Investigate and troubleshoot complex, broadly reaching product maintenance issues and establish short- and long-term solutions with customer agreement.
Collaborate with security and leadership teams to establish and improve development practices and coding standards, coaching less experienced team members.
Participate in peer reviews and provide technical leadership to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria.
Share expertise in industry best practices and their application to software development processes.
Implement complex secure software development practices and solutions, using modern or emerging approaches and automated tools to help prevent vulnerabilities.
Lead periodic maintenance and testing initiatives for systems requiring upgrades or patches, including for critical vulnerabilities.
Drive improvements and automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service and product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Direct timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets for critical, high-impact initiatives; anticipate and plan for 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 solutions that prevent recurrence.
Serve as an organizational thought leader, monitor emerging trends and standards, share knowledge, and mentor others.
Develop and implement improvements to organizational processes, protocols, and workflows; evaluate their effectiveness and create metrics to measure success.
Contribute expertise to talent strategy and development, including candidate interviews, assessment, and hiring decisions.