Principal Software Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

Range and Benefits

Hiring Range in USD: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 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
• 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