Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Drives cross-team platform initiatives with significant impact on product behaviour, security, reliability, performance, and compliance across the group. Anticipates and resolves ambiguous problems; sets compatibility and deprecation strategies to minimize downstream risk. Establishes shared observability frameworks, SLOs, and capacity models used by multiple teams. Defines architectural guardrails, platform security infrastructure guidance, and reference implementations.

 

Career Level - IC5

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

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. 

Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 

Key Responsibilities
 

Platform Software Development:

• Set guardrails for platform security infrastructure, RBAC and governance.

• Own cross-team programs with measurable reliability/performance impact.

• Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout practices adopted by numerous teams

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

• Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines code for new projects or prototypes.

• Builds software applications following established secure coding standards.

• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.

• Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.

• Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.

• Utilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex software issues.

• Leads strategic initiatives to optimize software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.

• Encourages innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.

• Resolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systematic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

• Implements innovative API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Leads task and project initiatives for the design and development of software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations.

• Provides technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices that drive key organizational decisions, including industry standards and competitive considerations, providing mentorship and coaching for small teams and peers and contributing to both individual and team development across line of business/function.

• Utilizes innovative methods to conduct highly complex periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.

• Designs, develops, tests and delivers new features on a world-class analytics platform suitable for deployment to both the Oracle Cloud and on-premise environment

• Collaborates with stakeholders across lines of business and externally, to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.

• Implements innovative performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

• Conducts regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translates into decisions and plans that can have a major impact on the organization.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.

• Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.

• Acts as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.

• Networks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Guides implementation of strategic solutions for customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.

• Investigates and troubleshoots the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.

• Participates in peer review processes and provides technical leadership with initiatives to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.

• Demonstrates, contributes to, and shares deep expertise of industry best practices and their application to software development processes.

• Implements highly complex secure software development practices/solutions requiring modern/emerging innovation to prevent security vulnerabilities, leveraging automated solutions to augment the manual review process.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Acts as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

• Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:

• Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.

Continuous Learning:

• Leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.

Continuous Improvement:

• Develops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.

Performance and Development:

• Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Key Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related major
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Extensive experience in using, building, debugging multi-threaded applications
• Ability to design large, scalable systems for enterprise customers
• Solid understanding concurrency, multi-threading and memory management  
• Expert at TLS, secure communications and cryptography.
• Experienced utilizing Java, J2EE, JMS, Distributed Systems and Microservices.
• Experienced in distributed and scalable server-side software development.
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules
• Knowledge in developing, implementing, and optimizing software algorithms.
• Solid knowledge of data structures and operating systems.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
• Hands-on experience using source control tools such as GIT. 
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills  
• Self-motivated and passionate in developing high quality software
• Strong Team Player
   

Other Qualifications

• Knowledge of Analytics products.
• Knowledge of security infrastructure, compliance and microservices.
• Knowledge of RBAC, identity integrations and credential management.
• Experience working with internal customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features.
• Experience and understanding of Cryptographic algorithms, standards, implementation and application
• Experience and understanding of threat modeling, penetration testing, reverse engineering and attacks on software
• Experience working with large enterprise customers
• Working experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Familiarity with Cloud services such as OCI, AWS or Azure

• Knowledge of Terraform and/or Python