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[Remote] Software Developer 5

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, empowering innovation across various industries. They are seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer to enhance the architecture and engineering practices of their cloud-scale release orchestration platform, Shepherd.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Shepherd platform capabilities for release orchestration, deployment safety, rollback automation, dependency modeling, and operational workflows
  • Design and build highly available distributed systems that operate reliably across cloud-scale, multi-region, and partially connected environments
  • Drive long-term platform architecture, including APIs, service boundaries, persistence models, workflow execution, resiliency, compatibility, and extensibility
  • Partner across engineering, SRE, security, compliance, infrastructure, and OCI service teams to deliver cross-organizational technical initiatives
  • Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability, operational readiness, and maintainability
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design documents, production-ready code, mentoring, and incident investigations
  • Develop automation and AI-assisted engineering workflows that improve developer productivity while maintaining production quality, security, and reliability
  • Continuously improve platform reliability, deployment safety, operational efficiency, and engineering excellence

Skills

  • Strong experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production cloud environments
  • Deep understanding of cloud platform architecture, orchestration systems, APIs, resiliency, observability, and operational safety
  • Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages
  • Experience leading complex cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing architecture across teams
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, design patterns, and maintainability
  • Experience with databases, distributed systems, API design, and production debugging
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted software engineering and engineering automation
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, technical leadership, and mentoring skills
  • Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) or another hyperscale cloud platform
  • Experience with deployment orchestration, release automation, cloud control planes, or internal developer platforms
  • Experience with compliance-sensitive or sovereign cloud environments
  • Experience defining engineering standards, SLOs, rollout policies, and observability frameworks
  • Experience developing reusable platform libraries, automation frameworks, and reference implementations

Benefits

  • Flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options
  • Volunteer programs
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
  • Short term disability and long term disability
  • Life insurance and AD&D
  • Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
  • Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
  • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
  • 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.
  • 11 paid holidays
  • 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.
  • Paid parental leave
  • Adoption assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Financial planning and group legal
  • Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
  • Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

Company Overview

  • Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions. It was founded in 1977, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.oracle.com/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Oracle has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 457 in 2026, 1271 in 2025, 846 in 2024, 995 in 2023, 1192 in 2022, 985 in 2021, 755 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.