Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle • Nashville, TN

19h

About The Position

Leads the design and delivery of AI-native developer platforms, services, and workflows that improve how OCI teams build and operate software across the full software development lifecycle. Applies strong software engineering and distributed-systems expertise to integrate AI-assisted development, automated testing and evaluation, intelligent operations, and secure delivery practices at scale. Partners across teams to establish reusable patterns, measurable outcomes, and safe adoption paths that help OCI engineers build, test, deploy, operate, and evolve services more effectively.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and experience designing and building REST and/or gRPC services.
• Experience building scalable distributed systems, including backend services and developer-facing platforms, tools, or web applications.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of data stores, including RDBMS and/or NoSQL systems.
• Experience with modern engineering practices, including source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational support.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work across teams, influence technical decisions, and mentor other engineers.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance analysis, and systems-design skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of AI-native developer platforms, services, APIs, tools, and workflows that improve the software development lifecycle for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure engineering teams.
• Deliver complex capabilities end to end: requirements clarification, technical design, implementation, automated testing and evaluation, deployment, operational support, and continuous improvement.
• Partner across OCI engineering, product, security, and infrastructure teams to identify developer pain points and evolve them into scalable, reliable platform capabilities and shared engineering practices.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and code reviews, design guidance, and mentorship; raise engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, observability, security, compatibility, and operational readiness.
• Define reusable patterns and safe adoption paths for AI-assisted coding, code review, test generation, debugging, incident investigation, and operational automation.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service and developer-workflow issues; drive durable fixes, resilience improvements, and follow-up actions.
• Establish and maintain documentation, technical standards, runbooks, migration guides, and adoption playbooks that enable consistent platform use at scale.
• Lead the practical application of AI-assisted engineering techniques and tools to improve developer productivity, software quality, and operational effectiveness—including faster prototyping, stronger test coverage, safer refactoring, better documentation, and more effective incident response.
• Apply an AI-native engineering mindset across day-to-day work: build and validate AI-enabled workflows, develop evaluation and quality measures, improve observability and runbooks, and rethink how OCI teams build, test, deploy, operate, and evolve software.
• Establish responsible AI engineering practices, including appropriate evaluation, observability, security, privacy protections, quality controls, and human oversight.
• Coach and guide other engineers in effective AI-native development practices while maintaining strong software engineering fundamentals.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Flexible Vacation
• 11 paid holidays
• 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal