Principal Software Development Engineer - OCI: Nashville (Hybrid)

As a Principal Software Engineer (IC4), you will be responsible for leading and developing AI powered services that scale our OCI operations. You will lead and work with other engineers to implement scalable services/applications, automate deployment processes, and support operational excellence in production environments. This is a hands-on role suited for engineers eager to grow in distributed systems and AI infrastructure engineering that proactively manage cloud environments, enhance operational excellence, and deliver world-class customer experiences. If you’re passionate about solving complex technical challenges and shaping the future of the autonomous cloud, this is your moment.

 

Why Join Us

• Gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge AI and cloud infrastructure
• Collaborate with experienced engineers and scientists across OCI
• Work in a supportive environment with strong opportunities for learning and career growth
• Help shape the foundations of Oracle’s AI strategy and application of AI

Qualifications:

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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 - IC4

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead AI Service Development: Drive the end-to-end design and development of a AI service tailored for cloud operations, ensuring scalability, reliability, and alignment with customer needs.
• Lead Tooling & Infrastructure: Implement and Standardized tools/frameworks for the team that accelerate software development, experimentation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Champion engineering principles for defining robust and maintainable architectures and designs
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business priorities
• Customer Engagement: Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to gather requirements, validate solutions, and ensure service effectiveness in production environments
• Lead team in Identify requirements, scope solutions, estimate work, schedule deliverables.
• Help establish and drive the adoption of outstanding coding standards and patterns and help enhance our inclusive engineering culture
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code in languages such as Python, Go, or Java
• Assist in deploying and monitoring services using modern cloud-native tools
• Learn and apply best practices for building reliable and performant distributed services with 24/7 operational excellence

Required Qualifications

• Overall 6-10 years with hands-on software development experience in building Enterprise services and production-grade software systems
• Lead and Mentor junior engineers to grow their capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and optimize services/applications in real-world, mission-critical environments
• Strong grasp of system design fundamentals and distributed systems architectural best practices
• Experienced at building highly available services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols
• Proficiency in writing great code in one or more programming languages: Python, Java, Go, or C
• Strong experience with REST APIs, microservices, LLMs, AI Agents, and cloud-native architectures
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a bias for action and execution
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including direct collaboration with enterprise customers and cross org teams
• Experience with CI/CD workflows and container-based deployments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building AI scalable services/applications for scale
• Background in cloud operations, DevOps, or infrastructure monitoring domains
• Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or other major cloud platforms
• Exposure to AI/ML infrastructure, MCP, or LLM serving technologies
• Interest in distributed systems, observability, and scalability challenges
• Able to operate and lead with ambiguity
• Willingness to learn and contribute to high-impact projects

Salary : $96,800 - $223,400