Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Drives cross-group platform initiatives (e.g., identity, config, API gateways) with significant impact on reliability, performance, and compliance across the group. Anticipates and resolves ambiguous distributed-systems 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, security controls, and reference implementations in partnership with SRE and security. 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: $96,800 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.
Career Level - IC5
Key Responsibilities
Platform Software Development:
Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance.
Own cross-group programs (e.g., identity, config, API gateway standards) with measurable reliability/performance impact.
Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.
Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:
Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
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.
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 maintenan