Job Information
Oracle Senior Principal Software Developer- Oracle Health, Platform Engineering in Charleston, West Virginia
Job Description
Role Summary
Oracle Health Platform Engineering delivers foundational platform capabilities that enable secure, compliant, and highly reliable services across Oracle Health. We operate with an AI-first engineering culture, and we expect senior technical leaders to shape not just systems, but also how teams build them—using AI responsibly to increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate delivery.
We are seeking a Senior Principal Software Developer (IC5) to provide broad technical leadership across multiple platform domains and teams. You will shape architecture, influence engineering strategy, and deliver foundational capabilities that improve security, developer experience, and operational excellence at scale.
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.
Responsibilities
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.
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).
• 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 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 $251,600 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:
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 - IC5
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