Senior Principal Platform Engineer – AI-Driven CI/CD Leader

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 97,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks an exceptional software leader to design, implement, and operate the Merino platform, the core CI/CD change workflow engine for OCI-scale delivery. You will own architecture, drive reliability and scalability, and guide deployment pipelines across teams.

You will mentor engineers, prioritize improvements from production signals, and collaborate with product to shape the Merino roadmap, while advancing AI-assisted coding practices with rigor.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building distributed systems, developer platforms, CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, or cloud services.
• Strong programming skills in Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience operating reliable cloud services in OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with CI/CD, DevOps, release automation, IaC, containers, orchestration, or deployment pipelines.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives across ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of core Merino platform capabilities for OCI-scale CI/CD and change workflow orchestration.
• Own architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, operational readiness, and production support.
• Drive improvements to workflow reliability, deployment safety, scalability, observability, and developer experience.
• Design systems integrating build, release bundle, change management, approval, rollback, and deployment workflows.
• Break down ambiguous platform problems into durable engineering solutions.
• Set high standards for code quality, system design, operational excellence, and maintainability.
• Use production signals and customer feedback to prioritize platform improvements.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical leadership.
• Partner across engineering and product organizations to shape the Merino roadmap.
• Champion effective use of AI-assisted and agentic coding workflows while maintaining engineering rigor.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

TypeScript

Python

Go

CI/CD

DevOps

IaC

Containers

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Agentic coding tools

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) seeks an exceptional software leader to design, implement, and operate the Merino platform, the core CI/CD change workflow engine for OCI-scale delivery. You will own architecture, drive reliability and scalability, and guide deployment pipelines across teams.

You will mentor engineers, prioritize improvements from production signals, and collaborate with product to shape the Merino roadmap, while advancing AI-assisted coding practices with rigor.