Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

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About The Position

This is a full-stack individual contributor role focused primarily on backend platform engineering, with contributions to frontend experiences and AI-powered interactions. The engineer translates business and product needs into precise specifications that guide AI-assisted software development, defining system behavior, interfaces, constraints, acceptance criteria, and validation strategies before implementation. They use AI development tools to generate, refine, and test solutions, applying engineering judgment to assess correctness, security, maintainability, performance, and architectural fit.

The role leads technical initiatives across teams, resolves ambiguity, and manages dependencies and integration contracts. It delivers reliable platform services and interactive experiences using React, Node.js, MCP App Extensions, and dynamic AI canvases, with ownership extending from specification through production validation and ongoing improvement.

The stated U.S. hiring range is $104,500–$234,600 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle provides a comprehensive benefits package, with specific benefits detailed in the posting.

Nice To Haves

• Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems, cloud services, APIs, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous product goals into precise, testable specifications covering system behavior, interface contracts, constraints, edge cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience using specifications to guide AI-assisted development, critically reviewing generated implementations and tests, and validating correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.
• Ability to contribute across the full stack, including React, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Node.js, connecting interactive frontend experiences with backend services.
• Experience or familiarity with MCP App Extensions and dynamic AI canvases, including tool-connected interfaces, streaming updates, and interactive AI-generated content.
• Experience designing secure service integrations with identity, authorization, auditability, and policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, hosted tools, vector stores, or agent orchestration patterns.
• Experience with OCI, Kubernetes/containers, Java/Python/TypeScript, service telemetry, and operational excellence.
• Strong engineering judgment and ownership from specification through production validation, with the ability to work across teams and shape reusable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team evolution of backend services, middleware patterns, and runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
• Design and develop scalable APIs and services supporting multi-tenant workloads, frontend applications, and AI-powered experiences.
• Define and implement versioning, deprecation, compatibility, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream disruption.
• Drive shared observability baselines, including service-level objectives, error budgets, and resilience patterns across services.
• Own backend performance, capacity planning, reliability, and production troubleshooting.
• Deliver features end to end, connecting backend services and APIs with responsive, interactive frontend experiences.
• Develop and maintain React applications and reusable components using JavaScript or TypeScript, contributing to Node.js services and integration layers as needed.
• Build MCP App Extensions and integrate their user interfaces with tools, platform services, and AI workflows.
• Develop dynamic AI canvases that support interactive content, visualizations, and user actions informed by AI outputs.
• Implement frontend state management, asynchronous data flows, streaming updates, and clear loading, error, and recovery states.
• Collaborate with product and design partners to translate requirements into intuitive, accessible experiences.
• Apply appropriate validation, authorization, and error handling across frontend and backend boundaries.
• Translate ambiguous product goals into precise, testable specifications and use specifications to guide AI-assisted development.
• Critically review AI-generated implementations and tests, validating correctness, security, maintainability, and architectural fit.
• Own outcomes from specification through production validation and ongoing improvement.

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.
• Paid time off, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried non-overtime-eligible employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed