Principal software engineer

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of AI native engineering systems powering cloud operations, infrastructure automation, and developer productivity at scale.

We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer (IC4) who operates as an AI native builder. This is not a traditional software engineering role centered on manual coding. Engineers on this team use AI assisted development, coding agents, and automation first workflows as the default mode of software creation.

This role focuses on rapidly building intelligent systems, internal platforms, operational tooling, and cloud native services using modern AI driven engineering practices. You will work across distributed systems, automation platforms, developer experience, and operational intelligence to dramatically improve engineering velocity, reliability, and scale.

Engineers on this team are expected to deeply integrate LLMs, coding copilots, agentic IDEs, and AI orchestration workflows into their daily development process. Success in this role is measured not only by code written, but by the ability to effectively leverage AI systems to accelerate delivery, automate repetitive engineering work, and solve high impact operational problems.

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Design and build scalable cloud native systems, automation platforms, and intelligent operational tooling.

• Use AI assisted development workflows as the primary engineering model for software design, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation.

• Build systems where humans supervise and orchestrate intelligent automation rather than manually executing repetitive engineering tasks.

• Rapidly prototype and productionize solutions using modern AI native development environments and agentic workflows.

• Develop internal developer platforms, APIs, operational workflows, and AI enabled engineering systems.

• Improve engineering productivity through intelligent automation, workflow orchestration, and self service tooling.

• Partner across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to solve complex technical and operational challenges.

• Drive operational excellence through observability, automated remediation, telemetry, and resilient system design.

• Contribute to architecture, technical strategy, and engineering best practices across the organization.

• Mentor engineers in modern AI native development practices and automation first engineering approaches.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable production systems.

• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

• Experience building distributed systems, cloud native applications, APIs, or automation platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, containers, and modern software development practices.

• Strong systems thinking, debugging, and problem solving skills.

• Ability to independently drive projects in fast moving and ambiguous environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience using AI assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Claude, Codex or similar agentic engineering environments.

• Strong understanding of AI native software development workflows, prompt driven engineering, and LLM assisted system design.

• Experience building developer productivity tooling, workflow automation systems, or operational intelligence platforms.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

• Experience with observability platforms, telemetry systems, and production operations.

• Knowledge of LLM orchestration frameworks, retrieval systems, vector databases, or AI infrastructure concepts is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to rapidly ship high quality production systems using AI accelerated engineering workflows.

• Strong communication and cross functional collaboration skills.

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 $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

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

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

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