Lead Platform Engineer - Cloud Backend & APIs

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer to shape platform foundations for OCI services and consumers. You will lead cross‑team initiatives in APIs, middleware, runtimes, and tooling, setting technical direction and delivering durable, scalable solutions.

This office‑based role requires onsite presence in Nashville, with relocation support possible. Requirements include 7+ years in software engineering, strong distributed systems experience, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software‑engineering experience with backend, platform, or cloud services.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks.
• Define API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe‑rollout strategies.
• Establish patterns for interoperability, multi‑tenant scale, resilience, and secure development.
• Drive observability practices, service‑level objectives, and capacity planning.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture across teams.

Skills

Distributed systems design

API versioning

Mentoring engineers

Systems programming (Java/C++/C#/Go)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's or master's in CS/CE or related field

Job description

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer to shape platform foundations for OCI services and consumers. You will lead cross‑team initiatives in APIs, middleware, runtimes, and tooling, setting technical direction and delivering durable, scalable solutions.

This office‑based role requires onsite presence in Nashville, with relocation support possible. Requirements include 7+ years in software engineering, strong distributed systems experience, and