# Principal Platform Software Engineer

We are seeking a software engineer to build and evolve a large-scale Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform. This role works across backend services, streaming data pipelines, telemetry agents, infrastructure, query capabilities, and user experience to help customers understand and improve the performance and reliability of their applications. You will develop and maintain Java microservices and Apache Flink applications that ingest, process, store, query, and present high-volume observability data. The APM platform operates at substantial scale, processing millions of spans per minute while maintaining low latency, reliability, data quality, and cost efficiency. Responsibilities Develop and maintain core APM repositories, shared platform capabilities, APIs, and operational tooling. Build scalable query-engine capabilities for traces, spans, metrics, logs, and service topology data. Design and operate Flink-based streaming ingestion pipelines that validate, enrich, transform, aggregate, and route telemetry. Lead and support the transition from relational database storage to OCI Log Analytics, including data migration, infrastructure migration, schema evolution, compatib

- **Id**: 3975221
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/oracle-principal-platform-software-engineer-89>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Nashville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T17:37:36Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T17:46:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5283
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: CRM Software, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), ERP & Business Management Software, HR & Payroll Software

## Company

- **Id**: 53
- **Name**: Oracle
- **Domain**: oracle.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/oracle>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 329
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.614
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 10
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 104500
- **Max**: 234600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234600

## Technologies

- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Oracle** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T17:46:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 10; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,038 · green card filings: 729; Filings 12m: 1038

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 11
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T18:58:24Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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