Principal Platform Software Engineer
Oracle · Posted Oct 29
Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications
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About the role
Oracle is a global technology company delivering enterprise software, database technologies, and cloud infrastructure. Oracle's Database organization develops and operates scalable, reliable, cloud-native services, combining backend engineering, infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, and production operations with growing work on MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. This Principal Software Engineer role designs, develops, deploys, and operates highly available backend services using Java, SQL, distributed systems, microservices, and AI-assisted development tools such as Codex.
What you will do
- Develop cloud-native backend services: Design, build, test, and maintain reliable, scalable services using modern cloud technologies, Java, SQL, and Agile engineering practices.
- Automate infrastructure and deployments: Develop scripts, infrastructure configurations, and automated deployment workflows using technologies such as Terraform and CI/CD pipelines to support repeatable global service deployments.
- Apply AI-assisted development: Use Codex and other agentic coding tools extensively for code exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation. Independently validate generated output for correctness, security, performance, and maintainability.
- Ensure production service reliability: Respond to production escalations, lead incident recovery and root-cause investigations, and implement improvements to reduce recurring issues and strengthen service availability.
- Improve monitoring and observability: Instrument services, enhance diagnostics, and use monitoring systems, alerts, and dashboards to detect, investigate, and resolve operational problems.
- Collaborate across engineering and operations: Partner with Support, Operations, and project stakeholders to resolve technical challenges, coordinate service improvements, and maintain operational readiness.
- Drive engineering quality: Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, improve engineering practices, and create technical and operational documentation that makes services easier to maintain and operate.
- Contribute to AI integration capabilities: Support the design, development, and operation of MCP servers and related integrations with AI agents as platform requirements evolve.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend development and production systems.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent software-development experience.
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Java and SQL.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production backend services.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including code quality, maintainability, performance, and troubleshooting.
- Experience participating in code reviews and delivering reliable production software.
- Practical experience developing or operating cloud-native services.
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservice architectures, and highly available services.
- Ability to reason about scalability, service availability, failure handling, and operational reliability.
- Experience automating software deployments or installations using scripting and engineering tools.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version-control practices.
- Ability to contribute to service instrumentation and repeatable deployment workflows.
- Experience troubleshooting production software and investigating service failures.
- Strong root-cause-analysis and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to collaborate with Support and Operations teams during incidents and service improvements.
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerts, logs, and operational diagnostics.
- Ability and willingness to use Codex or comparable agentic development tools as part of everyday engineering work, while independently validating generated results.
- Ability to work effectively in an Agile development environment.
- Strong technical communication, documentation, collaboration, and continuous-improvement skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience developing commercial software products that process large data volumes in highly available distributed environments.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable infrastructure-as-code technologies.
- Expertise in one or more public cloud platforms: OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience using Grafana dashboards, alerts, or comparable monitoring tools.
- Experience with Git, Bitbucket, or similar version-control tools.
- Experience designing or developing MCP servers.
- Experience integrating cloud services with AI agents.
- Familiarity with JavaScript and Node.js.
- Prior experience using Codex or other agentic coding tools and validating their output.
- Experience improving CI/CD pipelines
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology company specializing in cloud-engineered hardware, enterprise software, and database management systems. It provides comprehensive cloud solutions such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) to power digital transformations globally. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a major player in enterprise AI integration and database solutions.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 141000 employees
- Founded
- 1977
- Location
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $56B raised
- 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
- 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B
Leadership
Lawrence J. Ellison
Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Clay Magouyrk
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Sicilia
Chief Executive Officer
Hilary Maxson
Chief Financial Officer
Jae Evans
Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President
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