Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle
Salt Lake City, UT
$104,500–$234,600from the description
Jul 20, 2026
Salt Lake City, UT
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend engineering role focused on building the infrastructure that powers AI agents within Oracle's cloud platform. Day-to-day work involves designing APIs and services for agent orchestration, tool execution, guardrails, and enterprise workflow automation, as well as integrating across identity systems, audit mechanisms, and Oracle product APIs. Best suited to engineers with distributed systems experience who are comfortable shaping shared platform capabilities and working across multiple product teams.
Senior level · 6+ years · National · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting is titled 'Principal Platform Software Engineer (IC4)' — Oracle's IC4 level maps to Principal in their ladder. However, the actual requirements (6+ years, strong fundamentals, standard cloud/container experience) are consistent with a Senior engineer on a typical market ladder, not a true Principal/org-wide authority role. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
Location is not specified in the posting beyond 'US'; no specific city or CBSA could be determined. The compensation range is stated as US-wide.
Java and Go are listed together as a single 'strong programming experience' requirement ('Java or Go'); Java is used as the primary name with Go as an alternative. Both appear again in the responsibilities as technologies actually used on the team.
Docker and Kubernetes appear together in the required qualifications as examples of container/cloud-native experience ('containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or related cloud-native technologies'). They are listed as separate skills because they are distinct technologies, both named explicitly.
QEMU/KVM, container runtimes (crio, containerd/runc), Linux internals (namespaces, cgroups), systemd, virtio networking/storage, block storage (LUKS, LVM), and debugging tools (strace, tcpdump, Wireshark, gdb) all appear under the Preferred Qualifications section.
qcow2, RPM/DNF/YUM, and OSTree appear in the Responsibilities section as part of the team's stack and workflows, not as gated requirements — listed as preferred accordingly.
OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) is listed as a preferred skill reflecting integration work with OCI services and APIs described in the responsibilities.
The degree requirement states 'BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience' — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, the degree requirement is set to None.
AI-assisted software development tools are listed as a required qualification but name no specific product (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor), so no skill entry is emitted for this item.
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