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Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle · Posted Oct 27

Cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, database systems, and AI-powered business applications

IndiaFull-timeHybridLead/Staff10+ years₹45.0L–₹80.0L yearly<25 applicants
Cloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareDatabaseArtificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyPublic Company
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About the role

Leads platform projects across multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. The role focuses on complex cross-service issues, versioning and safe rollouts, and observability, capacity planning, and resilience across workloads. It also produces migration guides and adoption playbooks to improve ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

What you will do

  • Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.
  • 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.
  • Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
  • Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
  • Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
  • Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
  • Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
  • Develops fixes for identified issues.
  • Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
  • Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
  • Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
  • Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.
  • Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
  • Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
  • Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
  • Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
  • Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
  • May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
  • Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
  • Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
  • Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
  • Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
  • Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
  • Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.
  • Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
  • Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
  • Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.
  • Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
  • Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
  • Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
  • Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
  • Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
  • Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
  • Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

Skills used in this role

MiddlewareRuntimesAPIsSLOsError BudgetsObservabilityResilience PatternsVersioningDeprecationRollout StrategiesSoftware TestingPerformance ProfilingSecure CodingDebuggingTroubleshootingCode ReviewCoachingMentoringCommunicationProblem SolvingCapacity PlanningInteroperability

Benefits and support

  • Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting

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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

Glynn Capital
  • 2025-10-24Post IPO Debt$18B
  • 2025-02-03Conventional Debt$18B

Leadership

LJ

Lawrence J. Ellison

Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer

CM

Clay Magouyrk

Chief Executive Officer

MS

Mike Sicilia

Chief Executive Officer

HM

Hilary Maxson

Chief Financial Officer

JE

Jae Evans

Global Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President

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