Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds and operates large-scale cloud services for mission-critical enterprise workloads. The SPLAT team provides foundational platform services for secure API routing, service registration, traffic management, distributed throttling, private connectivity, authentication, and safe-change enforcement. Its systems sit in the request path for more than 300 OCI control planes and process hundreds of billions of API requests each month. This is a hands-on technical leadership role guiding the architecture and delivery of critical platform systems and cross-team initiatives. The engineer works across high-throughput Java services, distributed systems, networking, security, and production reliability; writes and reviews production code; makes architectural decisions; addresses complex operational problems; and mentors engineers. The role calls for sound technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to make progress when requirements, ownership, or failure boundaries are unclear.
Responsibilities
- Lead significant systems and initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, adoption, and production validation.
- Translate scalability, security, reliability, and business requirements into technical designs and execution plans.
- Make tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, throughput, durability, cost, and operational complexity.
- Design systems to handle partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, mixed-version deployments, dependency degradation, and regional disruption.
- Write and review secure, maintainable, well-tested Java code.
- Define service contracts, compatibility requirements, migration plans, validation strategies, and rollback criteria.
- Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams, and manage deprecation risk.
- Establish capacity models, performance objectives, scaling strategies, and load-testing plans for high-throughput services.
- Design throttling, load shedding, backpressure, caching, concurrency, and failure-recovery mechanisms.
- Define service-level indicators and objectives, actionable metrics and alarms, dashboards, runbooks, and deployment safeguards.
- Lead complex incident investigations and turn recurring failures and manual processes into automation and preventive engineering improvements.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for issues spanning applications, infrastructure, networking, and organizational boundaries.
- Provide architectural direction in areas including routing, authentication, private connectivity, runtime performance, observability, and deployment infrastructure.
- Break broad initiatives into work engineers can own independently while maintaining architectural consistency.
- Mentor engineers through design, code review, delivery, and incident response.
- Improve engineering quality through reusable systems, tools, standards, and operational practices.
- Contribute to hiring and shape the team roadmap by identifying architectural investments, platform gaps, and reliability risks.
- Align SPLAT and partner teams on technical decisions, ownership, dependencies, and rollout plans.
- Communicate complex designs, tradeoffs, risks, and progress clearly to engineers and leaders.
- Drive progress under ambiguity by distinguishing facts from assumptions, identifying reversible decisions, and clarifying external dependencies.
- Adapt technical direction when production evidence or new information challenges earlier assumptions.
- Use modern development and AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve engineering quality and productivity.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short-term and long-term disability
- 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
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position
- 11 paid holidays
- 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour maximum
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal benefits
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral
- Volunteer programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
