Principal Platform Software Engineer

About the role

Software Ecosystem Management (SEM) is a new OCI initiative being built from the ground up to create a trusted view of Oracle’s software ecosystem. SEM processes large volumes of software metadata from multiple upstream systems, normalizes it into a consistent model, and helps teams understand ownership, lifecycle state, and dependency relationships across services.

We are looking for engineers who want to work on a v1 platform with real scale, real ambiguity, and real impact. The work requires building reliable, scalable services that can grow with Oracle’s software estate and support teams across OCI. This is a chance to influence the foundation of a new system, not just extend an existing one. The team values engineers who take ownership, move quickly, and build durable solutions in a complex enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of major SEM capabilities spanning metadata ingestion, normalization, ownership, lifecycle, and dependency analysis.
• Define scalable service, API, and data-processing architectures that support multi-tenant use across OCI.
• Turn ambiguous platform requirements into clear technical direction, execution plans, and durable system contracts.
• Drive versioning, compatibility, migration, and rollout strategies that minimize disruption for upstream and downstream teams.
• Diagnose complex issues across services, data pipelines, and integrations, and lead remediation through resolution.
• Establish standards for reliability, observability, capacity planning, resilience, and operational readiness across multiple workloads.
• Lead design and code reviews across the team, improve engineering practices, and ensure adherence to security and architectural standards.
• Partner with product, architecture, and service teams to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver cross-team outcomes.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, and raise the quality and consistency of design, implementation, and operations across the team.
• Own the operational health of key platform areas and use production data, customer feedback, and incident learnings to drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in distributed service engineering or a related software development role.
• Strong development experience in Java or another object-oriented language.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems and APIs at scale.
• Familiarity with databases, data processing, and production-grade backend services.
• Experience debugging across service boundaries and improving reliability and performance.
• Comfort working in a large enterprise environment with ambiguous, evolving requirements.

Pay

US: Hiring range in USD from $104,500 – $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

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 eligible employees. 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 thereafter. Accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week; employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire, refreshes annually and carries over 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.