Senior Principal Software Developer - IC5

Oracle

Olympia, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$96,800–$251,600 Per Year

SKILLS

Access Control, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, C++ Programming Language, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Communication Skills, Computer Programming, Concurrency, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Relations, Data Management, Data Modeling, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Documentation, Embedded Systems, Engineering, Financial Planning, Go Programming Language (Golang), Healthcare, High Availability, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Integrated Circuits (ICs), Java, Leadership, Legal, Machine Tool, Mentoring, Occupational Health, Oracle, Performance Analysis, Production Support, Production Systems, Programming Tools, Property Insurance, Prototyping, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Refactoring, Rust Programming Language, Secure Coding, Security Architecture, Security Infrastructure, Software Development, Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Standards Development, Stock Purchase Plans, System Architecture, Team Lead/Manager, Test Automation, Test Requirements, Testing, Threat Modeling, Workflow Analysis

LOCATION

Olympia, WA

POSTED

1 day ago

**Job Description** We are looking for a senior staff-level engineer to design, build, and operate high-scale distributed systems and lead agentic-first development practices. This role works across product, infrastructure, data, security, and platform teams to turn ambiguous goals into durable architectures and production-quality systems. You will stay deeply hands-on while setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and raising the engineering bar. **Responsibilities** **Responsibilities** + Lead the design, implementation, testing, and operation of high-scale distributed systems, APIs, services, data pipelines, and platform components. + Own major initiatives end to end, from ambiguous requirements and architecture through rollout, observability, and production support. + Architect for reliability, scalability, low latency, fault isolation, backpressure, graceful degradation, data consistency, and operational visibility. + Raise engineering quality through automated testing, code review, CI/CD, deployment automation, incident follow-up, and documentation. + Use agentic-first development practices to accelerate prototyping, debugging, refactoring, test generation, documentation, and delivery while maintaining human ownership. + Build or integrate AI/agent workflows, including tool use, RAG, agent harnesses, evaluations, workflow automation, AI observability, and LLM-backed experiences. + Apply secure-by-default and responsible-AI practices across identity, access control, secrets handling, dependency hygiene, data protection, threat modeling, and secure code review. + Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and peer engineering teams to translate broad goals into technical plans and tradeoff decisions. + Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and define standards for maintainable, supportable, production-grade software across teams. **Basic Qualifications** + 10+ years of software engineering experience, including senior/staff-level ownership of production systems. + Strong programming ability in one or more languages such as Java, Python, Go, C++, Rust, or TypeScript. + Proven experience designing and operating distributed systems, cloud services, SaaS platforms, data systems, or infrastructure services at scale. + Deep knowledge of system design, APIs, data modeling, concurrency, asynchronous processing, failure modes, performance analysis, and production troubleshooting. + Experience with cloud platforms, containers, CI/CD, observability, automated testing, deployment automation, and operational readiness. + Hands-on use of AI-assisted and agentic development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools. + Practical experience with LLM patterns such as prompt engineering, RAG, tool use, agent frameworks, harnesses, evaluations, or workflow automation. + Working security knowledge across identity, access control, secure coding, dependency management, data privacy, and incident-aware engineering. + Strong communication skills, technical judgment, and ability to lead across teams without direct reporting authority. **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience building high-scale, low-latency, high-availability, multi-tenant distributed systems and influencing architecture across teams. + Experience with agentic AI platforms, LLM evaluation, AI observability, guardrails, tool orchestration, or developer productivity tooling. + Experience in regulated, enterprise, healthcare, cloud infrastructure, data platform, or security-sensitive environments. 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: $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: 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 balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. 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 **About Us** Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that 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 accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com 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.

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