Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle•United States,

5d•$99,600 - $209,500

About The Position

The Oracle Health Data Intelligence organization builds and operates data processing and intelligence platforms that support Oracle Health applications, national healthcare systems, and health analytics products. Within HAIDP, the Agentic Apps-HAIDP & RES team owns a broad portfolio that includes Health AI Data Platform capabilities, Rules Execution Service, Federal VA initiatives, disaster recovery, new Federal OCI regional builds, medical device and regulatory readiness, RES enhancements, and the Agentic AI Data Platform roadmap. The team's upcoming work includes platform modernization, Federal VA delivery, OnPrem to OC3 migration, VA Fed DR development and testing, regional build support, modular AI-first architecture, regulatory scope reduction, EHR workflow integration, and AI Agent Health capabilities. The engineer will own ambiguous, high-impact problems, account for platform, customer, and operational impact, collaborate across teams, and drive work from design through implementation, validation, and production readiness. The role contributes to distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant cloud software and data processing systems throughout the software lifecycle.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
U.S. citizenship and willingness to obtain a security clearance.
Experience with distributed data processing systems such as Hadoop or Kafka.
Hands-on coding experience with modern procedural programming languages such as Java and Python.
Good understanding of design concepts and ability to design software components in a distributed system.
Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively verbally and in writing, including through technical proposals, design specifications, architecture diagrams, and presentations.
Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.
8+ years of relevant experience.
Demonstrated competence as a technical lead of a non-trivial SaaS/IaaS project spanning multiple functional areas and involving up to 10 engineers.

Nice To Haves

Experience with production operations, including deployment, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.
Experience with containerized service development and operations.
Production experience with cloud service providers such as OCI, AWS, or Azure.
Experience partnering with managers and other stakeholders to define the technical culture and processes of software engineering teams.
Experience mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Participate in design discussions for distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.
Implement and build cloud services on modern OCI infrastructure.
Participate in the full software lifecycle, from design and development through quality assurance and production.
Apply strong engineering and operational practices to maintain a high software quality bar.
Optimize data processing pipelines to improve throughput and latency.
Use OCI tools to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.
Take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems and drive work through design, implementation, validation, and production readiness.
Collaborate across teams and account for platform, customer, and operational impact.