AI Cloud Platform Lead Engineer & Platform Reliability

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability coverage

Life insurance

AD&D

FSAs

Commuter benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Holidays

Sick leave

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Financial planning

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Clara is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to set cross-group guardrails for interoperability, security, and library governance. You will own complex programs, design scalable distributed platforms for OCI AI workloads, and mentor engineers across teams to deliver secure, reliable cloud services at scale.

You will guide AI-assisted workflows, validate AI-generated code, and drive observability, rollout policies, and production readiness across the SDLC, shaping

Qualifications

• US-based roles may be required to comply with immunization/health mandates.
• Hiring range is provided for US locations in USD.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and end-to-end delivery of complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, from requirements and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operations.
• Design and build distributed platforms and services for OCI AI workloads, balancing availability, latency, throughput, scalability, resource utilization, and cost.
• Write and review production code, develop prototypes to resolve technical uncertainty, and lead resolution of complex engineering problems.
• Establish shared platform capabilities and standards for identity, configuration, APIs, client libraries, interoperability, and lifecycle management.
• Lead AI-driven engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, code review, debugging, documentation, and operational troubleshooting.
• Build reusable AI-assisted tools and workflows; measure their impact on delivery speed, software quality, developer effort, and operational effectiveness.
• Validate AI-generated code and recommendations through engineering review, automated testing, and security checks, using approved tools and protecting sensitive information.
• Define testing and release strategies covering functionality, performance, security, resilience, and compatibility; establish quality evaluations and regression checks for AI capabilities where applicable.
• Own production readiness and service health through service-level objectives, observability, capacity planning, safe deployments, rollback strategies, and incident response.
• Partner with customers, product teams, and engineering stakeholders to prioritize needs, resolve issues, and deliver durable improvements.
• Lead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions and engineering standards across teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies through practical experimentation and adopt approaches that demonstrate measurable customer and engineering value.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software design

Mentoring

Architecture leadership

Observability

Security controls

AI integration

CI/CD

APIs

Production readiness

Job description

Oracle in Santa Clara is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to set cross-group guardrails for interoperability, security, and library governance. You will own complex programs, design scalable distributed platforms for OCI AI workloads, and mentor engineers across teams to deliver secure, reliable cloud services at scale.

You will guide AI-assisted workflows, validate AI-generated code, and drive observability, rollout policies, and production readiness across the SDLC, shaping