Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role is for a Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle, focusing on leading platform projects that evolve runtimes and middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. The engineer will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex cross-service issues, enforcing versioning and compatibility, driving observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns. They will also produce migration guides and adoption playbooks to improve ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
  2. Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
  3. Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
  4. Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
  5. Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.

Skills

Required

  • platform engineering
  • middleware development
  • interoperability
  • multi-tenant architecture
  • observability
  • resilience patterns
  • API design and versioning
  • software development lifecycle
  • debugging and troubleshooting
  • performance profiling and optimization
  • secure coding practices

Nice to have

  • technical guidance and coaching
  • technology research and evaluation
  • customer support
  • DevOps practices
  • automation