Principal Software Engineer - Oracle Health

Job Description

Role Summary

Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. We are an AI-first engineering organization, using AI-assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability.

We are seeking a Principal Software Developer (IC4) to lead design and delivery for complex platform capabilities, improve platform reliability and security posture, and mentor engineers through deep technical contributions and influence.

Location / Work Authorization / Clearance

• Role is based in the United States.

• U.S. citizenship required due to security clearance requirements.

• No visa sponsorship available.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Responsibilities

Key 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.

AI-First Engineering Expectations

• 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).

Minimum Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

About Us

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