Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds and operates large-scale cloud services that power mission-critical workloads for enterprises worldwide. The SPLAT team delivers foundational platform services for secure API routing, service registration, traffic management, distributed throttling, private connectivity, authentication, and safe-change enforcement. SPLAT sits in the request path for more than 300 OCI control planes and processes hundreds of billions of API requests each month.

We are seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of critical platform systems and initiatives across teams. This is a hands-on technical leadership role spanning high-throughput Java services, distributed systems, networking, security, and production reliability. You will write and review production code, guide architectural decisions, solve complex operational problems, and mentor engineers. Success requires sound technical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to drive progress when requirements, ownership, or failure boundaries are unclear.

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.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $113,600 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order 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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Delivery:

• Lead significant systems and initiatives from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, adoption, and production validation.
• Translate scalability, security, reliability, and business requirements into clear technical designs and execution plans.
• Make sound tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, latency, throughput, durability, cost, and operational complexity.
• Design for partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, mixed-version deployments, dependency degradation, and regional disruption.
• Write and review secure, maintainable, well-tested Java code.
• Define service contracts, compatibility requirements, migration plans, validation strategies, and rollback criteria.

• Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.

Scalability and Operational Excellence

• Establish capacity models, performance objectives, scaling strategies, and load-testing plans for high-throughput services.
• Design effective throttling, load shedding, backpressure, caching, concurrency, and failure-recovery mechanisms.
• Define service-level indicators and objectives, actionable metrics and alarms, dashboards, runbooks, and deployment safeguards.
• Lead complex incident investigations and turn recurring failures and manual processes into automation and preventive engineering improvements.
• Serve as a technical escalation point for issues spanning applications, infrastructure, networking, and organizational boundaries.
   

Technical Leadership

• Provide architectural direction in critical areas such as routing, authentication, private connectivity, runtime performance, observability, and deployment infrastructure.
• Break broad initiatives into meaningful work that engineers can own independently while maintaining architectural consistency.
• Mentor engineers through design, code review, delivery, and incident response.
• Raise engineering quality through reusable systems, tools, standards, and operational practices.
• Contribute to hiring and shape the team roadmap by identifying architectural investments, platform gaps, and reliability risks.
   

Cross-Team Execution

• Align SPLAT and partner teams on technical decisions, ownership, dependencies, and rollout plans.
• Communicate complex designs, tradeoffs, risks, and progress clearly to engineers and leaders.
• Drive progress under ambiguity by distinguishing facts from assumptions, identifying reversible decisions, and clarifying external dependencies.
• Adapt technical direction as production evidence and new information challenge earlier assumptions.
• Use modern development and AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve engineering quality and productivity.