Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra & API Leadership

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape backend platform services and APIs for OCI. You will lead cross-team initiatives, define versioning and migration strategies, and raise engineering quality with hands-on design and mentorship.

You will work onsite in Nashville, collaborating across teams to build scalable, secure, and observable cloud platform capabilities that improve developer experience and service reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or 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 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.

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 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.

Skills

Backend platform design

Distributed systems

API design & versioning

Java

C++

C#

Go

Leadership & mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Java

C++

C#

Go

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer in Nashville to shape backend platform services and APIs for OCI. You will lead cross-team initiatives, define versioning and migration strategies, and raise engineering quality with hands-on design and mentorship.

You will work onsite in Nashville, collaborating across teams to build scalable, secure, and observable cloud platform capabilities that improve developer experience and service reliability.