Platform Engineering Lead, Cloud APIs & Scale

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations and enable reliable, scalable services for OCI customers. You will lead cross‑team work on APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling, setting technical direction and delivering durable improvements in consistency, compatibility, and developer experience.

This role is office-based with onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

Bachelor's/master's in CS/CE/related

7+ years software engineering

Distributed systems design

APIs & platform interfaces

Java

C++

C#

Go

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE or equivalent

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations and enable reliable, scalable services for OCI customers. You will lead cross‑team work on APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling, setting technical direction and delivering durable improvements in consistency, compatibility, and developer experience.

This role is office-based with onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.