Principal Platform Software Engineer
Oracle
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Job summary
Oracle in the United States is seeking a senior Platform Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and deliver secure, scalable software that manages certificates, cryptographic keys, and trust infrastructure across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
You will collaborate with senior engineers, security teams, and partner services to raise reliability, implement observability, and drive architectural excellence.
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
- Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
- Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
- Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
- Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
- Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
- Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
- Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
- Develops fixes for identified issues.
- Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
- Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
- Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to API functionality and integration.
- Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
- Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion.
- Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
- Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
- Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
- Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
- Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
- Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
- Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
- Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.
Job description
In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deliver secure, highly available, and scalable software that manages certificates, cryptographic keys, and trust infrastructure across OCI. You will work closely with senior engineers, security teams, and partner service teams to deliver new capabilities, improve reliability and operational excellence, and contribute to the evolution of OCI's security platform. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, an interest in applied cryptography and cloud security, and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges at cloud scale.
In this role, you will design, develop, test, and deliver secure, highly available, and scalable software that manages certificates, cryptographic keys, and trust infrastructure across OCI. You will work closely with senior engineers, security teams, and partner service teams to deliver new capabilities, improve reliability and operational excellence, and contribute to the evolution of OCI's security platform. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience building distributed systems, an interest in applied cryptography and cloud security, and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges at cloud scale.
- Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
- Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
- Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
- Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
- Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
- Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
- Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
- Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
- Develops fixes for identified issues.
- Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
- Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
- Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
- Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
- Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.
- Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
- Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
- Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
- Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
- Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
- May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
- Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
- Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
- Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
- Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
- Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
- Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.
- Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
- Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
- Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.
- Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
- Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
- Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
- Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
- Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
- Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
- Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
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.
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.
- 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
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC4
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