Principal Software Developer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 179 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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Principal Software Developer - Oracle Health, US citizenship required The Principal Software Developer joins the Oracle Health Platform Engineering team to build and operate shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. This role involves leading the architecture, design, and implementation of complex platform capabilities while improving reliability and security posture. Key responsibilities include owning technical decisions, establishing engineering standards for API consistency and observability, and mentoring engineers through code reviews. The candidate will utilize AI-assisted engineering to accelerate design, testing, and troubleshooting. Required skills include experience with distributed services, data modeling, and system design. Preferred competencies include IAM-related service design, secrets management, and cloud experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP. The work focuses on solving technical problems regarding secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness.

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Skills

OCI AWS Azure GCP Containerization API Design IAM Secrets Management Observability SLOs SLIs Data Modeling System Design

What you'll do

Lead architecture, design, and implementation for complex platform services and shared components.
Own key technical decisions to ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and operability requirements.
Establish and improve engineering standards for API consistency, test strategy, deployment patterns, and observability.
Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical leadership.
Drive reliability improvements through SLO/SLI management, capacity planning, incident analysis, and automation.
Partner with Security and Compliance teams to ensure secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness.
Apply AI-assisted engineering to improve delivery speed, quality, and operational excellence across projects.
Establish and coach team patterns for AI-assisted development, including test generation and code review checklists.

What we're looking for

U.S. citizenship is required.
Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.
BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of professional software development experience.
Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed services in production.
Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.
Strong IAM-related service design experience (preferred).
Cloud experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP (preferred).