Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle
Olympia, WA
$104,500–$234,600from the description
Aug 11, 2026
Olympia, WA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves building and evolving a large-scale Application Performance Monitoring platform at Oracle, spanning backend Java microservices, Apache Flink streaming pipelines, telemetry agents, cloud infrastructure, and APM UI features. The engineer will work on high-throughput observability data ingestion and querying at millions of spans per minute, lead a storage migration to OCI Log Analytics, and collaborate directly with customers on performance and reliability challenges.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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No specific location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the CBSA and state fields are left blank accordingly. The compensation range ($104,500–$234,600/yr) is noted as US-specific.
The job title is 'Software Engineer' with an internal level of IC4 (individual contributor level 4), which at Oracle typically corresponds to a senior engineer. The advertised title carries no explicit seniority label, so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified.
OCI Log Analytics is listed under 'Familiarity with' (a softer qualifier) and is therefore marked as preferred, even though the role involves leading a migration to it — the JD's own language does not hard-gate on it.
OpenTelemetry is listed under 'Familiarity with' in the qualifications and is marked preferred accordingly.
The alt SOC (15-1243 Database Architects) reflects the significant data-pipeline, schema-evolution, and storage-migration scope of the role, though the primary work is clearly software development.
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