Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer - (OCI - Developer Platform)

Oracle • Nashville, TN

2d • Onsite

About The Position

OCI is transforming the developer platform experience. We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to shape a greenfield platform with broad customer impact and a direct role in OCI’s next phase of growth. As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, you will set the long-term technical vision for reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform. You will align multiple organizations around durable platform strategy, unlock step-function improvements in developer velocity, and establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of professional software development experience, including a record of shaping and delivering complex, production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools at significant scale.
• Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.
• Recognized depth in architecture and system design, with experience evolving APIs, data models, and service ecosystems for scalability, availability, security, operability, and long-term business impact.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.
• Demonstrated Senior Principal-level leadership: you can establish technical vision, influence executives and senior engineering leaders, align organizations, and drive sustained outcomes across complex systems.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts clear, build durable consensus, and influence decisions across organizational and functional boundaries.

Nice To Haves

• Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.
• Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, workflow orchestration, platform architecture, or multi-year technology strategy.
• Reliability engineering, production incident leadership, observability, capacity strategy, or performance engineering for critical cloud infrastructure.
• Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.
• AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety architecture and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term architecture, technical strategy, and investment direction for core services and APIs that power OCI’s modern application deployment platform.
• Lead pivotal, multi-year platform initiatives that deliver resilient, scalable deployment workflows and reusable primitives for OCI teams and customers.
• Create alignment across organizations and senior stakeholders; turn complex, ambiguous business and technical challenges into coherent platform strategy, engineering principles, and execution roadmaps.
• Define and champion platform-wide safety and reliability standards, including isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, recovery, and safe-by-default deployment patterns.
• Shape OCI’s approach to AI- and agent-assisted engineering by establishing scalable technical foundations, governance models, and safeguards that support innovation with appropriate human oversight.
• Identify and drive the highest-leverage opportunities using operational data, customer needs, technology trends, and a deep understanding of the developer ecosystem.
• Act as an organizational multiplier through architecture leadership, technical mentorship, cross-team design governance, and the development of enduring engineering standards and talent.

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 is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for 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