Principal software developer

Oracle
Reston, VA

Job Description

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At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

In the Oracle National Security Realms (ONSR) we carry these values, along with a passion for serving our US Government customers, to provide a safe, secure, and highly reliable cloud computing experience.

Job Description

The ONSR Operation organization is constantly evolving, developing new processes, tools, and services to deliver a high-quality customer experience. The ONSR Automation organization is building a new service to enhance real-time visibility of OCI cloud health to better support our ONSR operators. This is a "built from scratch" opportunity but requires team members with a strong orientation toward operations as an engineering skill set and a never-ending commitment to the customer experience. You will have a unique opportunity to work with many OCI service teams as well as our partners in SaaS and other Oracle, government facing product organizations.

We are looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to help build, operate, and scale this service.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As Principal Software Engineer, you will be collaborating with your fellow software team members, and supporting architects, for the software design, development, and operations of our new product. In this role, you will enable the development team by driving design of major service components, working with engineering managers and TPMs, and providing direct guidance to more junior team members. You can go from high level system design, writing architectural documentation and driving engineering peer reviews to hands-on prototyping, code reviews and project bootstrapping.

You will design and develop code, unit tests, integration tests, use CI/CD pipeline for pre-production functionality, performance, and scalability testing. As an engineering leader, we expect you to raise the bar for the entire engineering organization - whether through best engineering practices, operational excellence, development process or shared code contributions. You will collaborate with other service teams and participate in our engineering community to drive the best possible customer experience - both internal and external.

Minimum Requirements

  • Must possess U.S. Citizenship and willing to obtain U.S. Government Security Clearance.

  • 6+ years distributed service engineering experience in a software development environment, preferably on cloud-based platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, etc.

  • Strong development experience in Java writing highly concurrent, maintainable code

  • Experience with building microservices using Micronaut framework

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and maintaining large-scale infrastructure

  • Experience with unit/integration testing and TDD (test-driven development)

  • Hands-on experience designing, developing, and operating public cloud service control planes

  • Good knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals

  • Good understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence technologies

  • Demonstrable technical leadership and mentorship skills

  • Experience working with internal customers and converting request into actionable development

  • Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written, including authoring design document, technical specifications, and product/service reviews

  • Bachelor's degree?in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related engineering field

Preferred Qualifications

  • Masters degree?in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related engineering field

  • Previous experience working with large-scale, cloud-based telemetry solutions

  • Experience developing and delivering software solutions in US government agencies and/or classified cloud

  • Knowledge of Linux internals, Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills

  • Knowledge of software engineering best practices across the development lifecycle, including agile methodologies, coding standards, code reviews, source management, build processes, testing, and operations.

  • Experience driving security reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers from inception through launch

  • Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 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

About Us

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector-and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling +1 888 404 2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Posted 2025-10-06

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