Principal Platform Software Engineer

Emerson; Nashville (TN); In loco; USD 105.000 - 235.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off and flexible vacation

Disability insurance (short & long)

Life insurance and AD&D

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Oracle in Nashville, TN is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer to shape platform foundations for OCI services and consumers. You will lead cross-team initiatives—APIs, middleware, runtimes, and developer tooling—driving technical direction and durable solutions for consistency and developer experience.

This office-based role requires onsite presence in Nashville with relocation support per policy.

Competenze

• 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience with backend/platform/cloud services.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and evolving APIs.
• Proficiency in one or more OO or systems programming languages.
• Experience leading architecture and technical design across teams.

Mansioni

• Lead design, development, and evolution of backend platform services, APIs, middleware, runtimes, and integration frameworks.
• Define API versioning, lifecycle, deprecation, and safe-rollout strategies.
• Establish reusable patterns for multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure development.
• Drive observability with SLOs, error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Diagnose and resolve cross-service issues; lead durable remediation and migrations.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions through reviews and guidance.
• Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, documentation, and examples.
• Mentor engineers and raise quality of designs, code, and practices.

Conoscenze

Distributed systems design

Architectural leadership

API design and versioning

Strong communication

Formazione

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent

Strumenti

Java

C++

C#

Go

Descrizione del lavoro

As a Principal Platform Software Engineer, you will shape the platform foundations that allow OCI services and their consumers to work together reliably at scale. You will lead cross-team initiatives involving APIs, middleware, runtimes, integration frameworks, and developer tooling - setting technical direction while delivering durable solutions that improve consistency, compatibility, and developer experience.

This position is office-based and requires onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee. Relocation assistance may be available in accordance with Oracle's relocation policies.

What You'll Do

• 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.

What You'll Bring

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservices, SDKs, RESTful APIs, containers, cloud-native deployments, or developer-platform products.
• Experience defining or operating SLOs, error budgets, observability standards, and capacity plans.
• Experience with API interoperability, backward compatibility, migrations, or platform adoption programs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and improving engineering practices across multiple teams

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 to $234,600 per annum. 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.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• 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

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.