Principal Platform Software Engineer - Oracle Health Data & Analytics
About The Position
Oracle’s Health Data Intelligence and Life Sciences organization is focused on transforming healthcare and improving health globally. The Oracle Health Data Services (OHDS) data platform supports software products by transforming, enriching, persisting, and serving large-scale health and life sciences data for AI agentic and application use cases. The Principal Platform Software Engineer will help advance the data platform, collaborating with software architects on system design and serving as the technical leader responsible for component design. The role involves implementing and delivering projects for scalable data processing, storage, and retrieval across agentic and traditional workloads. In partnership with product management, applied science, and multiple development teams, the engineer will build software systems and deliver solutions end to end to improve customer outcomes. The role also drives operational excellence and best practices for highly scalable and reliable cloud-hosted software services.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, or equivalent relevant experience.
- High proficiency in Java, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Strong understanding of cloud concepts and cloud-native services on OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP, and the ability to apply this knowledge to developing and operating cloud-hosted software solutions.
- Strong knowledge of distributed storage systems, including data warehouses and lakehouse/table formats.
- Hands-on experience with streaming, change data capture (CDC), and large-scale batch processing such as Spark or Flink.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with multimodal persistence patterns, such as relational, document, vector, and graph storage.
- Experience with search (lexical, vector, or hybrid) and retrieval (MCP) for AI use cases.
- Experience applying LLM/NLP for extraction, entity resolution/linking, and enrichment.
- Experience with data governance and compliance, including classification/tagging, lineage, retention, audit logs, access controls, and secure handling of PHI/PII.
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Federal Security Clearance.
Responsibilities
- Implement key components of a multi-tenant data platform for AI, agentic, and traditional analytics workloads, including ingestion, transformation, indexing, storage, and serving layers.
- Perform component design and implement and deliver features that increase platform adoption by AI-first and agent-based architectures.
- Apply technical expertise to resolve complex issues and investigate issues inherent in technology designs or implementations.
- Ensure platform architecture and operations meet standards for scale, reliability, resilience, security, compliance, and cost efficiency in regulated healthcare environments.
- Collaborate with software architects, product management, applied science, and development teams on system design and end-to-end delivery.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Life insurance and AD&D.
- Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
- Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
