Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer
Oracle · Bengaluru · Posted 2026-07-21
Tech stack: AWS, Azure, Docker, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform
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About the role
Drives cross-team platform initiatives with significant impact on product behaviour, security, reliability, performance, and compliance across the group. Anticipates and resolves ambiguous 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, platform security infrastructure guidance, and reference implementations.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related major.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Extensive experience in using, building, debugging multi-threaded applications.
- Ability to design large, scalable systems for enterprise customers.
- Solid understanding concurrency, multi-threading and memory management.
- Expert at TLS, secure communications and cryptography.
- Experienced utilizing Java, J2EE, JMS, Distributed Systems and Microservices.
- Experienced in distributed and scalable server-side software development.
- Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules.
- Knowledge in developing, implementing, and optimizing software algorithms.
- Solid knowledge of data structures and operating systems.
- Understanding of Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
- Hands-on experience using source control tools such as GIT.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
- Self-motivated and passionate in developing high quality software.
- Strong Team Player.
- Other Qualifications.
- Knowledge of Analytics products.
- Knowledge of security infrastructure, compliance and microservices.
- Knowledge of RBAC, identity integrations and credential management.
- Experience working with internal customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features.
- Experience and understanding of Cryptographic algorithms, standards, implementation and application.
- Experience and understanding of threat modeling, penetration testing, reverse engineering and attacks on software.
- Experience working with large enterprise customers.
- Working experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
- Familiarity with Cloud services such as OCI, AWS or Azure.
- Knowledge of Terraform and/or Python.
- Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is a comprehensive business analytics and business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities.
- OAC is a market leading Business Intelligence platform of products that provides Enterprise-class level performance, security, scalability and manageability apart from the very advanced and innovative features in core analytics.
- OAC is built on open and standards based platform, integrated with Oracle Middleware technology and platform, and delivered as both standalone offering and embedded in the next generation Oracle Fusion Applications, for both on-premise and cloud deployments.
Responsibilities
- Platform Software Development: Set guardrails for platform security infrastructure, RBAC and governance.
- Set guardrails for platform security infrastructure, RBAC and governance.
- Own cross-team programs with measurable reliability/performance impact.
- Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout practices adopted by numerous teams.
- Software Development and Coding
- Design, Testing, and Optimization: Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements.
- Writes and defines code for new projects or prototypes.
- Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements.
- Builds software applications following established secure coding standards.
- 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 innov