Oracle · 2 weeks ago
Principal Software Developer 4
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$97K/yr - $223K/yr
6+ years expOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the development of AI-powered services that enhance OCI operations. This hands-on role involves collaborating with engineers to implement scalable services, automate deployment processes, and support operational excellence in production environments.
Data GovernanceData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareInformation TechnologySaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead AI Service Development: Drive the end-to-end design and development of a AI service tailored for cloud operations, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with customer needs
Lead Tooling & Infrastructure: Implement and Standardized tools/frameworks for the team that accelerate software development, experimentation, deployment, and monitoring
Champion engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business priorities
Customer Engagement: Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to gather requirements, validate solutions, and ensure service effectiveness in production environments
Lead team in 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
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in languages such as Python, Go, or Java
Assist in deploying and monitoring services using modern cloud-native tools
Learn and apply best practices for building reliable and performant distributed services with 24/7 operational excellence
Qualification
Required
Overall 6-10+ years with hands-on software development experience in building Enterprise services and production-grade software systems
Lead and Mentor junior engineers to grow their capabilities
Demonstrated ability to evaluate and optimize services/applications in real-world, mission-critical environments
Strong grasp of system design fundamentals and distributed systems architectural best practices
Experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
Proficiency in writing great code in one or more programming languages: Python, Java, Go, or C++
Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices, LLMs, AI Agents, and cloud-native architectures
Excellent problem-solving skills with a bias for action and execution
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including direct collaboration with enterprise customers and cross org teams
Experience with CI/CD workflows and container-based deployments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field
Preferred
Experience building AI scalable services/applications for scale
Background in cloud operations, DevOps, or infrastructure monitoring domains
Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or other major cloud platforms
Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, MCP, or LLM serving technologies
Interest in distributed systems, observability, and scalability challenges
Able to operate and lead with ambiguity
Willingness to learn and contribute to high-impact projects
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
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.75BKey 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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