Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle•United States,

About The Position

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a complementary team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and demeanor of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. Oracle Generative AI Code Assist Service is an exciting team in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We are delivering innovative services at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure. Oracle Agent Platform is a managed platform for building, deploying, governing, and operating AI agents at enterprise scale across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In the Generative AI Oracle Agent Platform team, you will build and operate cloud services maximizing state-of-the-art generative AI technologies. We are committed to providing the best in cloud products to meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's most challenging problems. You will be part of a team of experienced, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact by designing and building innovative new systems to power our customers' business-critical applications. As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will own software architecture and development of Oracle Generative AI Agent Platform Service. You should be both a rock-solid coder and a distributed systems generalist, be hands-on and able to dive deep into any part of the stack, as well as design broad distributed system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. Our Principal Platform Software Engineers are also the people who can work independently and provide technical leadership to the organization. You should have experience developing and operating high-scale services, and an understanding of how to make these cloud-scale services resilient. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and productive; someone who knows how to balance speed and quality with iterative and incremental improvements. You understand operational excellence and know how to infuse a culture of being proactive within your team. You recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.

Requirements

4+ years of experience with application development
Proficient at programming in Java, and one other major programming/scripting language like Python or Go.
Strong background in AI/ML, with a focus on generative AI and AI-driven code generation.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related engineering field
Strong troubleshooting skills and demonstrated ability to deliver quality code
Experience with container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes

Nice To Haves

Terraform knowledge is a bonus.
Strong distributed systems fundamentals
7+ years of experience, with some of that being as a technical lead
Prior production experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their tools or services
Master's degree in Computer Science
Experience with Generative AI technologies

Responsibilities

Own software architecture and development of Oracle Generative AI Agent Platform Service.
Build and operate cloud services maximizing state-of-the-art generative AI technologies.
Design and build innovative new systems to power customers' business-critical applications.
Provide technical leadership to the organization.
Recommend and justify major changes to new and existing products and establish consensus with data-driven approaches.