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

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Helena, MT, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $96,800.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, System Software, Policy as Code, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Golang
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3369515207&tx=FR1714FFK&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

Required qualifications: 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.

Preferred qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus.

 * 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.

## Description

* 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.


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