Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer - (OCI - Developer Platform)

Required to be in Nashville, TN.

OCI is transforming the developer platform experience.

We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a greenfield platform with broad customer impact and a direct role in OCI’s next phase of growth.

As a Senior Principal Software Development Engineer, you will set the long-term technical vision for reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform.

You will align multiple organizations around durable platform strategy, unlock step-function improvements in developer velocity, and establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

12+ years of professional software development experience, including a record of shaping and delivering complex, production-quality distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools at significant scale.

Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.

Recognized depth in architecture and system design, with experience evolving APIs, data models, and service ecosystems for scalability, availability, security, operability, and long-term business impact.

Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.

Demonstrated Senior Principal-level leadership: you can establish technical vision, influence executives and senior engineering leaders, align organizations, and drive sustained outcomes across complex systems.

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical concepts clear, build durable consensus, and influence decisions across organizational and functional boundaries.

Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus.

Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.

Large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant cloud services, control planes, workflow orchestration, platform architecture, or multi-year technology strategy.

Reliability engineering, production incident leadership, observability, capacity strategy, or performance engineering for critical cloud infrastructure.

Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.

AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety architecture and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems at enterprise scale.