Platform Architect, Cloud Infrastructure - Nashville

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations for OCI services and their consumers, leading cross-team initiatives in APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling.

You will lead cross-team initiatives around APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling, drive API versioning and lifecycle, and mentor engineers to raise design quality across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience, with demonstrated impact on backend, platform, or cloud services.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and evolving production APIs or platform interfaces.
• Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages, such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
• Deep understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals, object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, and secure software-development practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading or influencing architecture and technical design across teams.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous environments, a high degree of ownership, and clear written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and evolution of backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks used across OCI.
• Define and drive API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout strategies that protect downstream consumers.
• Establish reusable patterns for interoperability, multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development across multiple services.
• Drive shared observability practices, including service-level objectives, error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues; lead durable remediation and compatibility-safe migration plans.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions across teams through design reviews, code reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on engineering.
• Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, documentation, and examples that make platform capabilities straightforward to adopt.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality of designs, code, operational practices, and technical decision-making across the organization.

Skills

Java

C++

C#

Go

Distributed systems

API design

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's or master's in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

RESTful APIs

Containers

Cloud-native deployments

SDKs

Job description

Oracle Corporation’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations for OCI services and their consumers, leading cross-team initiatives in APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling.

You will lead cross-team initiatives around APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling, drive API versioning and lifecycle, and mentor engineers to raise design quality across the organization.