Principal Platform Engineer — Robotics & Cloud Systems

Oracle; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in the United Kingdom to lead design, development, and deployment of cloud platform services for robotics and scientific workflows. You will own backend components, data processing, and automation across teams, delivering reliable features from concept through production.

The role emphasizes collaboration with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists, with a strong focus on observability, testing, and secure development

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience delivering production software or services.
• Domain awareness of bioinformatics or computational life sciences such as genetics, genomics, plant biology, or generative biology.
• Understanding of scientific computing workflows, large datasets, reproducibility, metadata, provenance, and compute resource requirements.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, or Python.
• Experience developing backend applications, cloud-native services, distributed-system components, data-processing applications, or workflow systems.
• Ability to independently deliver well-scoped features with guidance on broader design and prioritization.
• Experience in Agile or iterative software development environments.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, containers, and cloud services.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components for cloud platform services.
• Implement backend services, APIs, data-ingestion and processing components, workflow integrations, automation, and operational tooling.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer scenarios into well-defined software features.
• Write clean, secure, and well-tested code following OCI engineering practices.
• Build unit, integration, and functional tests; participate in performance and resilience testing.
• Add logging, metrics, telemetry, health checks, and alerts for observability.
• Investigate, debug, and resolve service issues in development and production environments.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, documentation, and engineering planning.
• Automate deployment, configuration, testing, and service operations.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Backend development

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

REST APIs

CI/CD

Containers

Kubernetes

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Nextflow

Seqera

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in the United Kingdom to lead design, development, and deployment of cloud platform services for robotics and scientific workflows. You will own backend components, data processing, and automation across teams, delivering reliable features from concept through production.

The role emphasizes collaboration with scientists, hardware engineers, and AI specialists, with a strong focus on observability, testing, and secure development