Principal Platform Software Engineer

About the role

OCI is expanding the newly released Apache Kafka service and is seeking a Principal Platform Software Engineer at the IC4 career level. This role involves leading platform projects, diagnosing and resolving complex cross-service issues, and driving observability standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
• Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
• Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.
• Produce migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience shipping services software.
• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP).
• Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of event streaming platforms like Apache Kafka.
• Experience in a start-up environment.
• Experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
• Strong grasp of Unix-like operating systems.
• Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure.

Skills

• Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

Benefits

Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid time off, paid sick leave, and more. Oracle is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.