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# Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Integrated Development Environments, NoSQL, Oracle (Applications), Cloud Services, Service Development Studio, System Software, Data Logging, Information Technology, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Serverless Computing
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://eeho.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/347697

## About the Role

* BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
 * More than 10 years' of experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
 * Strong experience with C++/C; and open to work on Rust
 * Strong experience with high-concurrency systems.
 * Experience in low-level and performance-critical system level design and service development.
 * Working experience with some of the following technologies: Filesystem Journalling, High performance distributed storage, Write-Ahead Logging (WAL), Raft, Paxos, or Multi-Paxos for distributed consistency.
 * Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and interpersonal skills.
 * Comfortable with complex, swiftly evolving software development environments.
 * Ability to learn new technologies quickly and drive, follow, evangelize, and improve cross-team processes.
 * Expert knowledge of cloud infrastructure concepts and technologies.
 * Experience working with geographically distributed teams.
 * Significant work experience in startups or fast-paced enterprise technology development environments
 * Demonstrates strong mentorship abilities, effectively guiding and developing teams while aligning engineers with shared objectives.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

## Description

We're seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will deliver complex solutions for one of the two new OCI services:

 * Key value store is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service. It delivers fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability, automatically handling infrastructure management, capacity provisioning, security, and backups. It is designed to support high-volume, real-time workloads, consistently providing single-digit millisecond latency for both reads and writes, regardless of scale.
 * A journaling service that