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Oracle · 6 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a leader in cloud solutions, dedicated to building innovative technologies for enterprises. The Principal Software Engineer will design and develop AI software, participate in the software lifecycle, and contribute to the development of Generative AI models while ensuring high-quality and maintainable architectures.

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Responsibilities

Design and develop AI software in Java, Python, and other languages
Participate in the entire software lifecycle – development, testing, CI/CD and production operations
Participate in the entire model development cycle - training, fine-tuning, model serving, evaluation/benchmarking and human preference learning
Apply engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs
Build cloud service on top of the modern Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) building blocks at OCI
Design and build distributed, scalable, fault tolerant software systems to facilitate development of GenAI models
Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables. Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture
Contribute to publications, blogs and open source ML performance submissions partnering with product managers
Balance between product feature development and production operational concerns like ops automation, structured logging, instrumentation for metrics and participating in on-call

Qualification

JavaPythonDistributed systemsCloud native systemsContainersMachine learningCommunication skillsCollaboration

Required

BS or MS degree in computer science, or equivalent
6-10+ years of developing and shipping enterprise distributed and/or cloud native systems
Strong grasp of system design fundamentals and distributed systems architectural best practices
Demonstrated ability to write great code in Java, Python, or similar OO languages
Experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
Strong desire to make an impact and thrive in collaborative and energetic environments
Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects

Preferred

Data science and machine learning knowledge would be helpful, but not required
Production experience with Cloud and ML technologies
Experience working in the below areas and algorithms will be ideal but not mandatory: Generative AI Modeling: Customizing LLM's, build and deploy LLM's at scale for large scale data generation
Algorithms: Transformer models, Attention mechanism, Prompt tooling

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

Company

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

H1B Sponsorship

Oracle has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1271)
2024 (846)
2023 (995)
2022 (1192)
2021 (985)
2020 (755)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$25.75B
Key Investors
Sequoia Capital
2025-09-24Post Ipo Debt· $18B
2025-02-03Post Ipo Debt· $7.75B
1986-03-12IPO

Leadership Team

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Esteban Rubens
Healthcare Field CTO
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Gerard Warrens
Field CTO, Business Strategy and Transformative Technologies
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