Senior Platform Engineer, Cloud API & Scale

Socket.dev; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations, APIs, and developer tooling. You will lead cross‑team efforts to deliver durable, scalable backend services and ensure high-quality API experiences.

You will mentor engineers, define versioning and rollout strategies, and drive observability and secure software practices across multiple services, contributing to OCI's reliability and growth in a fast‑moving cloud

Qualifications

• 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 backend/platform/cloud services.
• Strong experience designing highly available, scalable distributed systems and evolving production APIs.
• Proficiency in object‑oriented or systems programming languages (Java, C++, C#, Go).
• Deep understanding of distributed‑systems fundamentals, OO design, data structures, algorithms, and secure SDLC practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and technical design across teams.
• Strong judgment, ownership, and clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Establish reusable patterns for interoperability, multi-tenant scale, resilience, and secure software development.
• Drive shared observability practices, including SLIs, error budgets, monitoring, and capacity planning.
• Diagnose and resolve complex cross-service issues; lead durable remediation and migrations.
• Influence architecture and technical decisions through design/code reviews and guidance.
• Create migration guides, adoption playbooks, and documentation to simplify platform adoption.
• Mentor engineers and raise the quality of designs and operational practices across the org.

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape platform foundations, APIs, and developer tooling. You will lead cross‑team efforts to deliver durable, scalable backend services and ensure high-quality API experiences.

You will mentor engineers, define versioning and rollout strategies, and drive observability and secure software practices across multiple services, contributing to OCI's reliability and growth in a fast‑moving cloud