Lead Principal Cloud Platform Engineer – Orchestration

Archer; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) with company match

Equity or bonus potential

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Archer in partnership with Oracle is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to evolve Shepherd, OCI's cloud-scale release orchestration platform. This role leads architecture, builds highly available distributed systems, and shapes engineering standards for reliability and observability across regions and services.

The position demands hands-on leadership, collaboration with SRE, security, and OCI teams, and a focus on deployment safety, AI-assisted automation, and long-term

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments.
• Deep understanding of cloud platform architecture, orchestration systems, APIs, resiliency, observability, and operational safety.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, design patterns, and maintainability.
• Experience with databases, distributed systems, API design, and production debugging.
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software engineering and engineering automation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Shepherd platform capabilities for release orchestration, deployment safety, rollback automation, dependency modeling, and operational workflows.
• Design and build highly available distributed systems that operate reliably across cloud-scale, multi-region, and partially connected environments.
• Drive long-term platform architecture, including APIs, service boundaries, persistence models, workflow execution, resiliency, compatibility, and extensibility.
• Partner across engineering, SRE, security, compliance, infrastructure, and OCI service teams to deliver cross-organizational technical initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, operational readiness, and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documents, production-ready code, mentoring, and incident investigations.
• Develop automation and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity while maintaining production quality, security, and reliability.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, deployment safety, operational efficiency, and engineering excellence.

Job description

Archer in partnership with Oracle is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to evolve Shepherd, OCI's cloud-scale release orchestration platform. This role leads architecture, builds highly available distributed systems, and shapes engineering standards for reliability and observability across regions and services.

The position demands hands-on leadership, collaboration with SRE, security, and OCI teams, and a focus on deployment safety, AI-assisted automation, and long-term