Principal Platform Software Engineer - JOIN OCI NASHVILLE! at Oracle

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$104,500 – $234,600/yr

Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Type: Full-time
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: Aug 31, 2026

Description

Oracle is hiring a Principal Platform Software Engineer (IC4) to lead the architecture, query-language capabilities, and distributed execution platform for OCI Log Analytics. The role involves building scalable systems for advanced analytics and machine learning, developing AI agents and agentic workflows, designing resilient multi-tenant cloud services, optimizing performance, and leading production reliability and engineering leadership. It is an on-site Nashville position requiring participation in the team’s on-call rotation, with relocation assistance available for qualified candidates.

Required Skills

Java
Python
Distributed systems
Query processing
Machine learning
AI agents
Kafka
Spark
Kubernetes
Terraform

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: Six or more years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
Experience building cloud-scale, multi-tenant products or services supporting high-throughput, concurrent processing
Experience with Kafka, Lucene, Solr, Spark, Parquet, Kubernetes, or Terraform
Experience designing or building query languages, compilers, query planners, distributed execution engines, indexing systems, or information-retrieval platforms
Experience developing AI agents, generative AI applications, retrieval systems, or natural-language interfaces for technical products
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building observability, logging, search, analytics, or query-processing platforms
Experience scaling machine-learning, statistical, or analytical algorithms across very large datasets
Proven success improving the performance, scalability, reliability, resiliency, and recovery characteristics of large-scale production systems
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