Principal Platform Software Engineer - Health Data & Analytics

Position: Principal Platform Software Engineer - Oracle Health Data & Analytics
** Job Description*
* At Oracle's Health Data Intelligence and Life Sciences organization, we are focused on transforming healthcare and improving the health of people globally. Whether it is helping bring new therapies to market faster or enhancing care delivery, we are transforming the experience of providers, payers, and life sciences organizations. The data platform team (Oracle Health Data Services - OHDS) is foundational to software products being built and serves the critical role of transforming, enriching, persisting and serving large-scale health and life sciences data for AI agentic and application use cases.

The OHDS team is looking for a Principal Software Developer to drive the data platform forward. In this role you will collaborate with software architects on system design, serve as the technical leader responsible for component design, implement and deliver projects involving scalable data processing, storage and retrieval for agentic and traditional workloads. Partnering with product management, applied science and multiple development teams, you will be responsible for building software systems and end-to-end delivery to improve customer outcomes.

You will drive operational excellence and best practices that enable us to deliver highly scalable and reliable cloud hosted software services.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Responsibilities*
* + Implement key components in a multi-tenant data platform serving AI, agentic, and traditional analytics workloads, including ingestion, transformation, indexing, storage, and serving layers.

+ Perform component design, implement and deliver features that increase the adoption of the data platform by AI-first and agent-based architectures.

+ Use strong technical knowledge to help resolve complex issues and dissect issues inherent in the design or implementation of technologies.

+ Ensure platform architectures and operations meet standards for scale, reliability, resilience, security, compliance, and cost efficiency in regulated healthcare environments.

** Qualifications*
* + 7+ years relevant experience, BS or MS degree in CS or equivalent relevant experience.

+ Highly proficient in Java, Python, or similar languages.

+ Strong understanding of cloud concepts and cloud native services on OCI, AWS, Azure or GCP, and ability to apply this knowledge toward development and running of cloud hosted software solutions.

+ Strong knowledge of distributed storage systems including data warehouses and lakehouse/table formats.

+ Hands-on experience with streaming + CDC and large-scale batch processing (Spark, Flink, etc.)

** Preferred Qualifications*
* Experienced with:

+ Multi-modal persistence patterns such as relational, document, vector, and graph storage.

+ Search (lexical, vector, hybrid) and retrieval (MCP) for AI use cases.

+ Applied LLM/NLP for extraction, entity resolution/linking, enrichment.

+ Data governance and compliance: classification/tagging, lineage, retention, audit logs, access controls, and secure handling of PHI/PII.

+ US Citizen eligible to obtain & maintain a Federal Security Clearance LI-JO2

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: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:

1.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2.
Short term disability and long term disability

3.
Life insurance and AD&D

4.
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5.
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6.
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7.
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8.
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.

9.
11 paid holidays

10.  Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused…