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Senior Principal Software Engineer

Oracle
Nashville, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 11/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/30/2026

At Multicloud Services organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We make it easy for our customers to maximize the value of their Oracle investment as well as other clouds or on-premises infrastructure, and build highly distributed, scalable, and resilient Multicloud solutions to support their business. 

Responsible for engaging with strategic and more complex engineering initiatives, building leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations to design and implement solutions.  Implement solutions and ensure successful deployments from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services. Provides leadership and expertise in the development of new solutions, products, and processes, and maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies. 

Primary Skills:

  • Experience with LLMs and agentic frameworks (e.g., MCP, OpenAI, Cohere, LangChain, CrewAI).
  • Knowledge of RAG pipelines and vector DBs (e.g., 23ai, FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate).
  • Familiarity with OCI Gen AI Services and model lifecycle workflows.
  • Solid Python and REST API skills.
  • Exposure to building autonomous agents and orchestration pipelines.
  • Experience working with cloud platforms like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Big Data Service (BDS), and Big Data Appliance (BDA).
  • Proficiency in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and NoSQL
  • Design and implement scalable, secure, and efficient complex big data architectures.
  • Manage and optimize large-scale databases.
  • Must have a solid understanding of networking concepts to design and optimize data transmission networks, configure network settings, and diagnose and resolve network-related issues.
  • Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with the latest big data technologies and trends

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 $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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 - IC5


Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate across product, engineering, and field teams to address complex AI/ML architecture challenges and ensure customer success.
  • Partner with Engineering, region build, networking, and product to understand the pain points, identify areas of efficiency, and build AI/ML-centric data platforms
  • Provide strategic guidance on data strategy, model lifecycle management, and Gen AI deployment patterns 
  • Partner across engineering teams to assess, design, and evolve end-to-end AI-centric data architectures across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and hybrid environments
  • Proactively recognize multicloud multi-year requirements, uncover unaddressed needs, and develop potential solutions across various customer groups.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams.
  • Prepare for complex product or solution-related inquiries or challenges that customers may present.
  • Promote understanding of customer complexities and the value propositions of various programs (e.g., speaking at different events, team meetings, product reviews) to key internal stakeholders.

Salary : $96,800 - $251,600

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