Principal Platform Software Engineer

Job description

A central focus of this role is building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring the Database Tools service into AI-agent workflows, making its capabilities available to AI agents and helping shape how developers work with Oracle Database. You’ll also contribute to the Document Generator Pre-built Function and the Oracle Database, Oracle ORDS, and Oracle APEX stack on Oracle Cloud.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Every Day

• Build native cloud services in an Agile environment using the latest cloud technologies, such as Terraform
• Instrument services and automate solution deployment worldwide with a DevOps mindset
• Use Codex and other agentic development tools extensively in day-to-day engineering work, including code exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation; review and validate their output
• Coordinate with project stakeholders such as Support and Operations to provide a high level of expertise and service availability
• Respond to production platform service escalations; lead incident recovery and root-cause analysis
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to the team with continuous improvement in mind
• Produce the documentation needed to make the platform easy to operate
• Contribute to the design, development, and operation of MCP servers and related integrations as the team’s work evolves

Preferred Skills

6+ years of professional experience in back-end engineering - BS or MS degree in computer science or equivalent software development experience

• Experience working on commercial products that handle large volumes of data in highly available distributed systems
• Experience developing scripts to automate software deployments and installations
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and microservice architectures
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Git and Bitbucket
• Familiarity with monitoring tools, such as alarms and Grafana dashboards
• Strong programming skills with Java and SQL - Curiosity and a willingness to learn and continually improve the solution
• Exposure to Agile development methodologies
• Experience with the Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP server development, or integrating services with AI agents is a plus
• Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-building technologies is a plus
• Expertise in one or more public clouds—AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI—is a plus
• Experience with JavaScript and Node.js is a plus
• Familiarity with Codex or similar agentic development tools, and the ability to guide and validate their output