Principal Platform Engineer - Cloud Backend & APIs

Socket.dev

Nashville (TN)

On-site

USD 105,000 - 235,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville, TN to shape platform foundations for OCI services. You will lead cross-team efforts on APIs, middleware, runtimes, and tooling, setting technical direction and delivering durable, scalable solutions.

You will mentor engineers, improve interoperability, and drive observability and secure development practices across multiple services, while influencing architecture and design decisions through reviews and hands-on work.

Qualifications

7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with backend/platform focus.
Experience with highly available, scalable distributed systems.
Proficiency in OO languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture across teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

Lead backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks used across OCI.
Define and drive API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout strategies.
Establish reusable patterns for interoperability, multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development.
Drive shared observability practices, including SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues; lead durable remediation and migration plans.
Influence architecture and technical decisions through design reviews and guidance.
Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, and examples to simplify adoption.
Mentor engineers and raise the quality of designs, code, and operations.