Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Software Developer to lead design and delivery for complex platform capabilities. The role involves improving platform reliability and security, mentoring engineers, and ensuring high standards for product delivery at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, and implementation for complex platform services and shared components
- Own key technical decisions; drive design reviews and ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and operability requirements
- Establish and improve engineering standards across services (API consistency, test strategy, deployment patterns, observability)
- Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical leadership
- Drive reliability improvements (SLOs/SLIs, capacity/performance planning, incident analysis, automation)
- Partner with Security/Compliance to ensure secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness
- Collaborate across organizations to align roadmaps and deliver cross-team platform initiatives
- Demonstrate a consistent track record of applying AI-assisted engineering to improve delivery speed and quality across multiple projects (design, implementation, testing, troubleshooting)
- Establish team patterns for AI-assisted development (e.g., test generation strategies, code review checklists for AI-generated changes, documentation/ADR generation) and coach others on effective usage
- Evaluate AI-assisted approaches with an enterprise mindset: security, privacy, IP, and compliance considerations; ensure usage aligns with company-approved tooling and policies
- Use AI to enhance operational excellence (e.g., improved incident triage workflows, log/trace analysis approaches, automation of repetitive operational tasks)
Skills
- 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
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical alignment across teams and deliver results in ambiguous problem spaces
- Strong IAM-related service design experience: token-based auth, service-to-service auth, authorization enforcement, policy design
- Experience building or integrating user provisioning and entitlement services, lifecycle workflows, and audit logging
- Experience with secure platform patterns: secrets management, key rotation, secure defaults, defense-in-depth
- Cloud experience preferred (OCI strongly desired; AWS/Azure/GCP acceptable), including containerization and orchestration
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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