Lead Principal Platform Engineer — Cloud Orchestration

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 135,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and vacation policy

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid parental leave

Additional voluntary benefits

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to drive Shepherd's evolution in architecture and engineering practices. This hands-on role demands deep distributed-systems expertise and leadership across teams to deliver scalable cloud orchestration with reliability and compliance.

You will shape APIs, persistence models, and workflows while advancing automation and observability.

Qualifications

• 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 safety.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and guiding architecture across teams.
• Strong fundamentals in 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 automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design and implementation of Shepherd platform capabilities for release orchestration and safety.
• Design and build highly available distributed systems across multi-region environments.
• Drive long-term platform architecture including APIs, persistence, workflows and resiliency.
• Partner with engineering, SRE, security, compliance, and OCI service teams on cross-organizational initiatives.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability and readiness.
• Provide technical leadership via architecture reviews, design docs, production-ready code and mentoring.
• Develop automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve developer productivity while ensuring reliability.
• Continuously improve platform reliability and operational excellence.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

APIs

Resiliency

Observability

Operational safety

Java

Job description

Oracle in Nashville is seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to drive Shepherd's evolution in architecture and engineering practices. This hands-on role demands deep distributed-systems expertise and leadership across teams to deliver scalable cloud orchestration with reliability and compliance.

You will shape APIs, persistence models, and workflows while advancing automation and observability.