Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle
San Juan, PR
$104,500–$234,600from the description
Jun 30, 2026
San Juan, PR
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on platform-level work that spans multiple teams — standardizing middleware patterns, runtime interoperability, and multi-tenant scalability. Day-to-day work includes cross-service troubleshooting, defining API versioning and rollout strategies, setting observability baselines, and producing migration guides. The role also involves mentoring less experienced engineers and contributing to architectural decisions and code reviews.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 (5)
The job title is not stated in the posting; the career level is given as 'IC4', which at Oracle typically corresponds to a Senior individual-contributor engineer. No explicit seniority word appears in the title, so advertised seniority is Unspecified.
No specific programming languages, frameworks, or named tooling are called out anywhere in the JD — the posting is written entirely in terms of responsibilities and patterns (middleware, observability, API versioning, resilience). Skills are therefore extracted from the firmly-stated responsibility language rather than a named-technology list; this limits the precision of the skills inventory.
The role sits between platform/infrastructure engineering (15-1244) and software development (15-1252). The emphasis on leading cross-team middleware evolution, writing migration guides, and building shared platform capabilities points to active software development work, so 15-1252 is the primary classification, with 15-1244 as the runner-up given the strong operational/platform flavor.
No overall years-of-experience requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): multi-tenant architecture.
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