Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle; California (MO); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking a Principal Software Development Engineer (IC4) to design, build, and operate platforms that support Cloud Hardware Support for data center operations. You will own major features, drive architectural decisions, and mentor others while delivering scalable, secure software across global environments.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and analytics to reduce manual work and improve repair throughput, with collaboration across product, operations, and service teams.

Qualifications

• 11 years of software development experience, or a B.Tech in CS/Eng with 7+ years in software development.
• 6 years of programming/scripting experience (SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).
• 4 years of database experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable cloud-native services, APIs, and platforms for OCI data center growth, repair operations, and infrastructure management.
• Lead major features and subsystems across task management, inventory workflows, analytics, orchestration, integrations, and dashboards.
• Partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and service teams to translate data center workflows into scalable software capabilities.
• Drive observability, resilience, deployment safety, and production readiness across global environments.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, guidance, and technical decision-making.

Skills

Data analysis

Agile methodologies

Automation

Compliance

Quality assurance

Scripting languages

Software test plans

User experience dev

Code review

Embedded systems

Software estimation

Education

B.Tech in CS/Eng

Job description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of software systems that enable data center operations to scale with the speed, reliability, and efficiency required by modern cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer (IC4) to help design, build, and operate software platforms that support Cloud Hardware Support (CHS) as OCI continues to grow. This role focuses on cloud-native systems, operational tooling, workflow automation, analytics, and intelligent user experiences that help teams manage data center work more consistently and efficiently.

As an IC4 engineer, you will operate independently while helping guide the team’s technical direction. You will build entire systems and services, drive design across complex features and subsystems, improve engineering and operational practices, and collaborate closely with partner teams across infrastructure, operations, and service engineering. This aligns with the IC4 expectation of independently building systems and services while improving engineering practices, operations, ownership, hiring, and mentoring across a director-level organization.

This role is well suited for an engineer who enjoys solving ambiguous operational problems with scalable software. You will work on platforms that unify task execution, workflow orchestration, inventory and asset interactions, guided procedures, operational analytics, and automation-first experiences for data center support teams. The broader CHS roadmap emphasizes reducing manual, fragmented processes; improving repair throughput and quality; building centralized analytics; and establishing a task-centric repair operator platform as a primary system of work.

Success in this role requires strong technical judgment, ownership of production systems, customer empathy for field and operations users, and the ability to design software that is secure, resilient, observable, and scalable across global environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable cloud-native services, APIs, and platforms that support OCI data center growth, repair operations, and infrastructure management.
• Build software that simplifies complex operational workflows through automation, guided task execution, intelligent prioritization, and self-service tooling.
• Lead the design of major features and subsystems across task management, inventory workflows, analytics, workflow orchestration, integrations, and operational dashboards.
• Create reliable systems that integrate with multiple backend sources of truth while presenting users with a unified, consistent, and intuitive experience.
• Develop platforms that improve technician productivity, reduce manual work, increase operational consistency, and support faster issue resolution.
• Partner with product, operations, infrastructure, and service teams to translate complex data center workflows into scalable software capabilities.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, alerting, automated validation, resilient architecture, and measurable service health.
• Build analytics and telemetry capabilities that help identify workload trends, bottlenecks, quality issues, operational risks, and opportunities for automation.
• Improve engineering quality by contributing to architecture reviews, design standards, testing practices, deployment safety, and production readiness.
• Work independently on complex projects while seeking input when tradeoffs affect customers, business goals, system architecture, or cross-team dependencies, consistent with IC4 expectations.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, implementation guidance, operational best practices, and technical decision-making.
• Champion secure, maintainable, and extensible software that can scale across global OCI data center environments.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:

• 11 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development
• Coding Experience: 6 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).
• Database Experience: 4 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Experience

• Budget Experience: 1 year of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• Cloud Platforms Experience: 3 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Job Skills

• Data Analysis: Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data to produce actionable business insights.
• Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.
• Automation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.
• Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.
• Quality Assurance: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of quality assurance, including ensuring adherence to standards and implementing quality control measures.
• Scripting Languages: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of scripting languages, including writing and maintaining scripts to improve system efficiency.
• Software Test Plans: Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective software test plans to validate product quality.
• User Experience Development: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of user experience development, including designing intuitive and effective user interfaces and content.
• Code Review: Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth code reviews for software quality assurance.
• Embedded Systems: Demonstrated ability to develop embedded systems, balancing hardware and software for optimal performance.
• Software Estimation: Demonstrated ability to provide accurate software effort and complexity estimates for project planning and scheduling.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&DD
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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