Lead Principal Application Software Engineer - Nashville

Salary: $142,000 - 194,000 per year Requirements:

• A BS or MS in Computer Science or a relevant technical field involving coding, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years of software development experience, including building scalable solutions and web applications.
• Strong coding skills in Java, Go, C#, or similar object-oriented languages, and a record of delivering products across the full software development lifecycle.
• Experience with large-scale distributed services and mission-critical, tier-one live-site operations.
• A systematic approach to problem-solving, strong communication skills, ownership, and drive.
• Experience designing architectures that support high availability, scalability, leading features, flexibility, and future business needs.
• Preferred: Technical leadership experience on large-scale applications and systems; hands-on development and maintenance of services on a public cloud platform such as OCI, AWS, or Azure; and experience with Kubernetes.
• Preferred: Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform; SQL and NoSQL databases; computer networking; Linux internals and troubleshooting; and virtualization technologies such as KVM, containers, or Docker.
• Preferred: Ability to communicate technical ideas through proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations; experience hiring and mentoring; and a record of developing talent across an organization.
• Minimum education and experience: 15 years in software development; or a relevant bachelors degree in a listed technical or quantitative field and 11 years of experience; or a relevant masters degree and 9 years; or a relevant doctorate and 7 years.
• At least 10 years of experience with programming or scripting languages and 6 years of database experience.
• Preferred education and experience: 16 years in software development; or a relevant bachelors degree and 12 years of experience; or a relevant masters degree and 10 years; or a relevant doctorate and 8 years.
• Preferred: Demonstrated knowledge of Oracle products and how to educate customers on their effective use; 2 years in a technical lead role, with or without direct reports; 3 years working with operating budgets or project financials; and 5 years with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Oracle Cloud.

• Lead the design and development of scalable software solutions, while mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Apply expertise in system architecture, cloud technologies, and software design to advance innovation and ensure performance, security, and maintainability.
• Define best practices and coding standards, and resolve complex technical challenges.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align technology with business objectives and promote continuous learning and excellence.
• Guide and improve the application software development lifecycle, coaching engineers across teams or units to drive application-focused improvements.
• Work with software engineering teams on the design, development, and operation of new and existing products.
• Architect broad system interactions, contribute hands-on across the technology stack, and apply knowledge of cloud infrastructure and networking.
• Provide independent technical leadership across the organization and help build resilient, high-scale cloud services.
• Balance delivery speed and quality through iterative improvements, promote operational excellence and proactive practices, and recommend and justify major product changes using data to build consensus.

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• C#
• Cloud
• Docker
• Support
• Java
• KVM
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• NoSQL
• Oracle
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• Web
• DevOps
• Golang
• JavaScript
• TCP/IP
• Unix

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We are collaborating with hackajob to connect exceptional professionals with Oracle for a Lead Principal Software Engineer role at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Our diverse team builds cloud services for enterprises, combining a startups pace with the scale and customer focus of a leading enterprise software company. We value equity, inclusion, respect, learning, growth, and challenging ourselves to build what comes next. Youll join a motivated team and have the autonomy and support to do your best work in a dynamic, flexible environment where you can belong and contribute.

last updated 41 week of 2026