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You will work closely with Software Developers, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, domain experts, and product stakeholders to translate complex planning requirements into production-quality software.\nAs a Principal Software Developer, you will provide technical leadership across architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations. You will solve ambiguous problems, establish engineering standards, and help build systems that operate reliably at cloud scale.\nThis is an individual-contributor role with significant technical ownership and cross-functional influence.\nBasic qualifications\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. \nEight or more years of professional software-development experience. \nSignificant experience designing and delivering production software systems. \nStrong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, C++, or another modern programming language. \nStrong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and software-design principles. \nExperience designing distributed systems, backend services, APIs, or data-intensive applications. \nExperience with relational or non-relational databases and proficiency with SQL. \nExperience developing, testing, deploying, and operating software in Linux and cloud environments. \nKnowledge of software-development practices including source control, automated testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. \nExperience troubleshooting complex systems and resolving production issues. \nAbility to lead technical design and execution across multiple components or workstreams. \nStrong written and verbal communication skills. \nDemonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, data, product, and business stakeholders. \nPreferred qualifications\nExperience building software for cloud infrastructure, networking, capacity planning, resource planning, supply planning, or other large-scale operational domains. \nExperience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, and service-oriented or microservice architectures. \nExperience with workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, batch-processing systems, or distributed data-processing platforms. \nExperience building applications that integrate machine-learning models, forecasting services, optimization methods, or analytical workflows. \nFamiliarity with machine-learning lifecycle concepts, including feature generation, model serving, evaluation, and monitoring. \nExperience building internal enterprise applications or decision-support systems. \nExperience with infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment, and configuration-management practices. \nExperience with security, access control, auditability, and data-governance requirements. \nExperience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or another major cloud platform. \nAbility to influence technical direction across teams without direct management authority.\n Responsibilities\nLead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable services and applications supporting infrastructure planning. \nTranslate complex and ambiguous business and engineering requirements into well-defined technical designs and implementation plans. \nBuild reliable backend services, APIs, data-processing workflows, and integrations. \nDevelop software that incorporates analytical and machine-learning outputs into production applications and planning workflows. \nDefine clear interfaces and data contracts across software, data, and machine-learning components. \nDesign systems for scalability, availability, security, maintainability, and operational efficiency. \nEstablish appropriate observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and automated alerting. \nOwn software throughout its lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. \nDiagnose complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions. \nImprove system performance, reliability, and cost efficiency through measurement and engineering analysis. \nPartner with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to integrate predictive and analytical capabilities into production systems. \nCollaborate with infrastructure and domain experts to ensure that software behavior reflects real-world operational requirements. \nParticipate in architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, and operational-readiness reviews. \nEstablish reusable engineering patterns, development standards, and best practices across the team. \nMentor engineers and raise the overall technical quality of the organization. \nCommunicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. \nDisclaimer: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. 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