Principal Platform Software Engineer- Oracle Health

Oracle•United States,

13h•$105,900 - $234,600

About The Position

Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. The organization uses AI-assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability. Oracle is seeking a Principal Software Developer (IC4) to lead the design and delivery of complex platform capabilities, improve platform reliability and security, and mentor engineers through technical contributions and influence. The role leads architecture, design, and implementation of platform services and shared components; owns technical decisions and drives design reviews; establishes engineering standards; and improves reliability through service-level objectives and indicators, capacity planning, incident analysis, and automation. It partners with Security and Compliance, and collaborates across organizations to deliver platform initiatives. The engineer is expected to apply AI-assisted engineering across design, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting; establish team practices for AI-assisted development; coach colleagues; evaluate security, privacy, intellectual property, and compliance implications; and use AI to improve operational workflows.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
Demonstrated experience building and operating distributed services in production.
Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, and performance and reliability tradeoffs.
Demonstrated ability to drive technical alignment across teams and deliver results in ambiguous problem spaces.
Ability to obtain and maintain a federal security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

Strong IAM-related service design experience, including token-based authentication, service-to-service authentication, authorization enforcement, and policy design.
Experience building or integrating user provisioning and entitlement services, lifecycle workflows, and audit logging.
Experience with secure platform patterns such as secrets management, key rotation, secure defaults, and defense-in-depth.
Cloud experience, preferably OCI; AWS, Azure, or GCP experience is also acceptable, including containerization and orchestration.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture, design, and implementation for complex platform services and shared components.
Own key technical decisions and drive design reviews to ensure solutions meet security, scalability, performance, and operability requirements.
Establish and improve engineering standards across services, including API consistency, test strategy, deployment patterns, and observability.
Mentor engineers through design guidance, code reviews, and technical leadership.
Drive reliability improvements through SLOs/SLIs, capacity and performance planning, incident analysis, and automation.
Partner with Security and Compliance to ensure secure-by-design implementations and audit readiness.
Collaborate across organizations to align roadmaps and deliver cross-team platform initiatives.
Apply AI-assisted engineering to improve delivery speed and quality across design, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting.
Establish team patterns for AI-assisted development and coach others on effective use.
Evaluate AI-assisted approaches for security, privacy, intellectual property, and compliance, ensuring they follow approved tools and policies.
Use AI to improve operational excellence, including incident triage, log and trace analysis, and automation of repetitive operational tasks.