Principal Platform Engineer — AI-First, Secure & Scalable

Careers; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 106,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. We are an AI-first engineering organization, using AI-assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability.

We are seeking a Principal Software Developer (IC4) to lead design and delivery for complex platform capabilities, improve platform reliability and security posture, and mentor

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 7 years of professional software development experience.
• Experience building and operating distributed services in production.
• Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical alignment across teams and deliver results in ambiguous problem spaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation for complex platform services and shared components.
• Own key technical decisions; drive design reviews and ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and operability requirements.
• Establish and improve engineering standards across services (API consistency, test strategy, deployment patterns, observability).
• Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical leadership.
• Drive reliability improvements (SLOs/SLIs, capacity/performance planning, incident analysis, automation).
• Partner with Security/Compliance to ensure secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness.
• Collaborate across organizations to align roadmaps and deliver cross-team platform initiatives.

Skills

System design

Distributed services

Mentorship

Security awareness

Leadership

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

OCI

AWS

Job description

Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. We are an AI-first engineering organization, using AI-assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability.

We are seeking a Principal Software Developer (IC4) to lead design and delivery for complex platform capabilities, improve platform reliability and security posture, and mentor