Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer OCI - Developer Platform

Position: Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer - (OCI - Developer Platform)
** Job Description*
* 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.

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* Required qualifications:

** 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.

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* Preferred qualifications:

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

+ Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, Git Ops, 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.

** Responsibilities*
* + Set the long-term architecture, technical strategy, and investment direction for core services and APIs that power OCI's modern application deployment platform.

+ Lead pivotal, multi-year platform initiatives that deliver resilient, scalable deployment workflows and reusable primitives for OCI teams and customers.

+ Create alignment across organizations and senior stakeholders; turn complex, ambiguous business and technical challenges into coherent platform strategy, engineering principles, and execution roadmaps.

+ Define and champion platform-wide safety and reliability standards, including isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, recovery, and safe-by-default deployment patterns.

+ Shape OCI's approach to AI- and agent-assisted engineering by establishing scalable technical foundations, governance models, and safeguards that support innovation with appropriate human oversight.

+ Identify and drive the highest-leverage opportunities using operational data, customer needs, technology trends, and a deep understanding of the developer ecosystem.

+ Act as an organizational multiplier through architecture leadership, technical mentorship,…