Principal Platform Software Engineer

Description

As a Principal Platform Engineer on the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, you’ll provide technical leadership for Tier-0, mission-critical identity services powering authentication and authorization at cloud scale. You’ll design highly available and reliable distributed systems, lead complex technical initiatives, and help build the next generation of identity infrastructure for AI and agentic ecosystems.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role with broad impact across architecture, engineering, and service operations.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, Python, or a similar language.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, and high-availability architectures.
• Significant experience designing and operating large-scale, mission-critical cloud services.
• Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices, cloud architectures, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, application security, and secure software development.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production systems and driving reliability and performance improvements.
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements such as FedRAMP and PCI DSS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems.
• Experience operating Tier-0 or similarly critical services with stringent availability requirements.
• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, distributed tracing, and reliability engineering.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWT, or related identity standards.
• Experience with applied cryptography.
• Familiarity with emerging identity models for AI agents, machine identities, delegation, and agentic systems.

Expectations

• Own the technical direction and long-term health of critical IAM capabilities.
• Solve complex and ambiguous problems spanning multiple systems and teams.
• Make sound architectural decisions balancing security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Drive Tier-0 service availability and reliability through resilient architecture and operational excellence.
• Lead complex initiatives from architecture through production operation.
• Anticipate technical and operational risks and drive solutions proactively.
• Help define identity and authorization architectures for the emerging agentic ecosystem.
• Influence technical decisions across teams and mentor other engineers.
• Remain hands-on through implementation, prototyping, debugging, and technical reviews.

Success Indicators

• Delivers secure, highly available IAM systems at significant scale.
• Improves the reliability and resilience of mission-critical services.
• Drives major technical initiatives across service and team boundaries.
• Anticipates and resolves complex architectural and production challenges.
• Advances next-generation identity capabilities for AI and agentic workloads.
• Raises the technical effectiveness of the broader engineering organization.
• Earns trust through strong technical judgment, execution, ownership, and influence.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, highly available IAM services.
• Drive service reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence for Tier-0 production systems.
• Design and operate distributed services at high scale, addressing performance, capacity, resilience, and failure modes.
• Define technical direction and lead complex initiatives spanning multiple services and teams.
• Architect next-generation identity capabilities for AI agents, machine identities, services, and users.
• Lead design reviews and make high-impact architectural decisions.
• Diagnose complex production issues and drive systemic improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Improve observability, automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Product Management, Security, and engineering teams to deliver durable technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards through technical leadership, design, and code reviews.

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Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.