Senior Principal Software Developer - IC5

at Oracle in Boise, Idaho, United States

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, cont