Lead Principal Platform Engineer — Cloud Orchestration

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Life insurance

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in the United States seeks a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to advance Shepherd's architecture and engineering practices, driving cloud-scale release orchestration across regions and services.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish standards, and deliver resilient, scalable distributed systems with strong emphasis on reliability and developer productivity.

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 software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, design patterns, and maintainability.

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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud platform architecture

Cross-functional leadership

API design

Java

Python

Go

TypeScript

Mentoring

Job description

Oracle Corporation in the United States seeks a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to advance Shepherd's architecture and engineering practices, driving cloud-scale release orchestration across regions and services.

You will provide hands-on technical leadership, mentor engineers, establish standards, and deliver resilient, scalable distributed systems with strong emphasis on reliability and developer productivity.