Lead Platform Engineer - Scalable Systems & Observability

Oracle; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle in Santa Monica is seeking a senior platform software engineer to lead cross-team middleware evolution, define versioning and rollout strategies, and drive observability and resilience across multiple services.

You will design scalable software, coach engineers, supervise architecture reviews, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with platform standards and long-term reliability.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns to standardize interoperability at scale.
• Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
• Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
• Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals.
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
• Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
• Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
• Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to API functionality and integration.
• Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion.
• Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
• Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
• Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
• Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
• Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.

Job description

Oracle in Santa Monica is seeking a senior platform software engineer to lead cross-team middleware evolution, define versioning and rollout strategies, and drive observability and resilience across multiple services.

You will design scalable software, coach engineers, supervise architecture reviews, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment with platform standards and long-term reliability.