Principal Platform Software Engineer

Build OCI’s greenfield platform for software ecosystem management, and help create a v1 system that processes software metadata at Oracle scale and turns fragmented signals into clear, actionable insight. Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale., * Lead the design and delivery of major SEM capabilities spanning metadata ingestion, normalization, ownership, lifecycle, and dependency analysis.

• Define scalable service, API, and data-processing architectures that support multi-tenant use across OCI.
• Turn ambiguous platform requirements into clear technical direction, execution plans, and durable system contracts.
• Drive versioning, compatibility, migration, and rollout strategies that minimize disruption for upstream and downstream teams.
• Diagnose complex issues across services, data pipelines, and integrations, and lead remediation through resolution.
• Establish standards for reliability, observability, capacity planning, resilience, and operational readiness across multiple workloads.
• Lead design and code reviews across the team, improve engineering practices, and ensure adherence to security and architectural standards.
• Partner with product, architecture, and service teams to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver cross-team outcomes.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and raise the quality and consistency of design, implementation, and operations across the team.
• Own the operational health of key platform areas and use production data, customer feedback, and incident learnings to drive continuous improvement.

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• 7+ years of experience in distributed service engineering or a related software development role
• Strong development experience in Java or another object-oriented language
• Experience building or operating distributed systems and APIs at scale
• Familiarity with databases, data processing, and production-grade backend services
• Experience debugging across service boundaries and improving reliability and performance
• Comfort working in a large enterprise environment with ambiguous, evolving requirements

This role is for an engineer who wants to work on a v1 platform with real scale, real ambiguity, and real impact. The work requires building reliable, scalable services that can grow with Oracle’s software estate and support teams across OCI. This is a chance to influence the foundation of a new system, not just extend an existing one. The team values engineers who take ownership, move quickly, and build durable solutions in a complex enterprise environment.