Principal Software Engineer

Position: Principal Application Software Engineer
** Job Description*
* Oracle is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to join a highly skilled team focused on building modern cloud and AI-enabled enterprise solutions. This role is ideal for a developer with strong hands-on experience in Oracle APEX, PL/SQL, Oracle Database technologies, and a solid foundation in full-stack software development.

OCI Enterprise Engineering helps drive Oracle's AI transformation by delivering modern enterprise services. Our team builds secure, scalable AI frameworks, platforms, and developer tools that enable applications, empower employees, and improve productivity. This role is ideal for engineering-focused individuals who enjoy solving complex problems and delivering high-impact AI enablement solutions.

As a member of the OCI Enterprise Engineering AI Services team, you will help design, develop, and support enterprise AI solutions using Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, PL/SQL, OpenAI tools, and Anthropic AI tools. In this role, you will work on next-generation AI-enabled applications, integrate AI capabilities into business workflows, and contribute to reliable, secure, and scalable software solutions for Oracle's internal enterprise platforms.

** Responsibilities*
* Design, architect, develop, and operate secure, scalable, highly available enterprise AI-enabled applications and services using Oracle APEX, Oracle Database, PL/SQL, SQL, REST APIs, JSON, JavaScript, and modern full-stack engineering practices.

Build reusable enterprise AI frameworks, developer platforms, APIs, orchestration services, and AI accelerators that enable scalable AI adoption across Oracle enterprise applications.

Drive the technical design and architecture of enterprise AI solutions, ensuring maintainability, scalability, resiliency, security, observability, and operational readiness.

Integrate Generative AI capabilities using OpenAI technologies including GPT models, Assistants APIs, embeddings, tool/function calling, structured outputs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic AI workflows.

Evaluate and integrate Anthropic Claude models and enterprise AI capabilities including prompt orchestration, context management, guardrails, and secure enterprise AI patterns.

Develop AI-powered enterprise workflows using Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search, vector embeddings, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, and AI-assisted database capabilities.

Collaborate across engineering teams, architects, security teams, product management, and business stakeholders to define technical direction and deliver enterprise-scale AI platforms and applications.

Drive engineering best practices including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, Dev Ops, operational excellence, observability, performance optimization, database tuning, resiliency engineering, and production readiness.

Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational improvements for complex enterprise applications and AI services.

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to organizational improvements in engineering practices, operational standards, documentation, development processes, and technical design reviews.

Identify technical risks, evaluate emerging technologies, and recommend scalable engineering solutions aligned with Oracle's enterprise AI strategy.

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:

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

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Short term disability and long term disability

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Life insurance and AD&D

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Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

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Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

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Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

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401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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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…