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This is not a traditional software engineering role centered on manual coding. Engineers on this team use AI assisted development, coding agents, and automation first workflows as the default mode of software creation.\nThis role focuses on rapidly building intelligent systems, internal platforms, operational tooling, and cloud native services using modern AI driven engineering practices. You will work across distributed systems, automation platforms, developer experience, and operational intelligence to dramatically improve engineering velocity, reliability, and scale.\nEngineers on this team are expected to deeply integrate LLMs, coding copilots, agentic IDEs, and AI orchestration workflows into their daily development process. Success in this role is measured not only by code written, but by the ability to effectively leverage AI systems to accelerate delivery, automate repetitive engineering work, and solve high impact operational problems.\n As a Principal Software Development Engineer, you will:\nDesign and build scalable cloud native systems, automation platforms, and intelligent operational tooling.\nUse AI assisted development workflows as the primary engineering model for software design, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation.\nBuild systems where humans supervise and orchestrate intelligent automation rather than manually executing repetitive engineering tasks.\nRapidly prototype and productionize solutions using modern AI native development environments and agentic workflows.\nDevelop internal developer platforms, APIs, operational workflows, and AI enabled engineering systems.\nImprove engineering productivity through intelligent automation, workflow orchestration, and self service tooling.\nPartner across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to solve complex technical and operational challenges.\nDrive operational excellence through observability, automated remediation, telemetry, and resilient system design.\nContribute to architecture, technical strategy, and engineering best practices across the organization.\nMentor engineers in modern AI native development practices and automation first engineering approaches.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.\n5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable production systems.\nStrong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.\nExperience building distributed systems, cloud native applications, APIs, or automation platforms.\nExperience with CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, containers, and modern software development practices.\nStrong systems thinking, debugging, and problem solving skills.\nAbility to independently drive projects in fast moving and ambiguous environments.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep experience using AI assisted development tools such as Cursor, Copilot, Claude, Codex or similar agentic engineering environments.\nStrong understanding of AI native software development workflows, prompt driven engineering, and LLM assisted system design.\nExperience building developer productivity tooling, workflow automation systems, or operational intelligence platforms.\nFamiliarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.\nExperience with observability platforms, telemetry systems, and production operations.\nKnowledge of LLM orchestration frameworks, retrieval systems, vector databases, or AI infrastructure concepts is a plus.\nDemonstrated ability to rapidly ship high quality production systems using AI accelerated engineering workflows.\nStrong communication and cross functional collaboration skills.\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. 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.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. 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.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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