Principal software development engineer

Oracle
Springfield, IL

Job Description

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.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of substantial scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer's business critical applications.

We are looking for an engineeing lead/architect with distributed systems experience. You should have experience with the design of major features and launching them into production. You've operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You have the ability to drive projects and tasks independently as well as provide technical leadership for development teams. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances but have to abide by compliance and regulations. The ideal candidate will be technically strong and get a lot done - you've worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for other developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument properly to get the right data. You understand operational excellence and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates. You proactively find anomalies in graphs that didn't trip any alarms and root cause problems before they become real problems.The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, drive tactical execution of features and projects, and own feature design.

As a Principal Engineer on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace team, you will set the technical direction and drive successful business outcomes for the marketplace platform. You will be a technical lead on a team of software engineers working to design, build, grow and operate our services.

The Marketplace team is responsible for building the services where our customers will go to purchase pre-configured software installations on the platform of their choice. The challenges here are across the entire stack, from back-end distributed services operating at cloud scale, to e-commerce transactions, to the actual web apps that users interact with. This is the perfect role for someone experienced in designing complex software systems, writing code across an entire stack, driving operations excellence, mentoring engineers especially in a start-up style environment.

Career Level - IC4

This team is targeting candidates in the U.S. who can work ONSITE in Nashville-TN (priority) or Austin-TX. Relocation Assistance provided. (This is not a remote position)

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer on this team, your responsibilities will include leading system design of major features and services, mentoring other engineers, collaborating with product managers and leadership, writing high quality code at a high rate of speed, improving the extent of our code coverage and development processes and the automation of our testing and deployments.

Qualifications

  • BS/MS/PhD in Compute Science or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience.

  • 8-10+ years of full stack software development, design, implementation and operation of distributed services

  • Experience driving architecture & functional reviews, documentation, UX reviews, and working with Product Managers through the entire launch process.

  • Hands-on experience building and operating entire systems and services.

  • Strong product development experience in Java, Python, Golang, Javascript

  • Expert in REST API design and designing multi-tenant systems

  • Working familiarity with browser UIs, TCP/IP, and standard network architectures

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

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, ARM etc.

  • Experience providing technical leadership. Ability to implement or lead multiple key-projects in parallel.

  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills

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 2025-10-18

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