Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable APIs & Observability

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

Benefits offered by this job

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

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Architectural leadership

API design and versioning

Strong communication

Education

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

Tools

Java

C++

C#

Go

Job description

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.