Lead Principal Software Engineer

Position: Lead Principal Application Software Engineer
** Job Description*
* Location / Work Authorization / Clearance

+ Role is based in the United States.

+ U.S. citizenship required due to security clearance requirements.

+ No visa sponsorship available.

+ Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

+ Define and drive platform architecture across multiple services/teams; ensure cohesive, scalable, secure designs.

+ Lead strategic initiatives spanning platform security, reliability, and developer productivity (multi-quarter impact).

+ Establish and enforce engineering standards (architecture patterns, secure-by-design requirements, operational readiness).

+ Anticipate systemic risks (security, scalability, resiliency, compliance) and lead cross-team mitigation.

+ Drive an engineering culture of operational excellence (SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, automation).

+ Mentor principal/senior engineers; raise the bar through design reviews, technical deep-dives, and hands-on contributions.

+ Partner with product, security, and operations leadership to align roadmaps and deliver outcomes.

** Responsibilities*
* AI-First Engineering Expectations

+ Set the technical vision for AI-first software delivery across platform engineering: how AI is used in design, coding, testing, reviews, release, and operations-at scale and with measurable outcomes.

+ Define and drive standards/guardrails for AI-assisted development (quality gates, review requirements, testing expectations, documentation, and operational readiness), aligned with enterprise security/privacy/compliance needs.

+ Lead adoption of AI-assisted methods that materially improve reliability, security, and developer productivity (e.g., automated test expansion, safer refactoring, operational diagnostics, policy-as-code generation with validation).

+ Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to ensure responsible AI usage and to reduce risk associated with AI-generated artifacts.

Minimum Qualifications

+ BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

+ 10+ years of professional software development experience with significant architecture ownership.

+ Proven track record delivering large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems in production.

+ Strong security mindset and demonstrated ability to influence across organizations.

+ Excellent communication skills; ability to drive alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Deep expertise in identity architecture and authorization: policy models, zero trust/service identity, federation patterns.

+ Experience designing user provisioning platforms (workflow/orchestration, reconciliation, event-driven provisioning, auditability).

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Experience with compliance-oriented engineering: audit logging, retention, access reviews, segregation of duties.

+ Cloud experience preferred (OCI and cloud platform building strongly desired), including large-scale distributed systems and container platforms.

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: $104,600 to $264,100 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:

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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)…