Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining how cloud services are built, validated, and released at scale. Merino is OCI’s internal CI/CD change workflow platform, orchestrating build, validation, change management, and deployment across OCI. Merino sits at the center of OCI software delivery. This role offers the opportunity to improve developer productivity, release safety, and operational confidence while helping define the future of AI-assisted software delivery.

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.

Qualifications

Required:

• 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.

Preferred:

• Hands‑on use of Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar agentic coding tools.
• Experience using AI‑generated code with strong review, testing, and architectural ownership.
• Experience using AI to explore codebases, generate tests, refactor systems, improve documentation, or accelerate migrations.
• Experience building internal engineering platforms with a strong focus on developer experience and reliability.
• Experience with release orchestration, progressive rollout, rollback validation, and large‑scale production deployments.

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.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.