Lead Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

Lead Principal Application Software Engineer at Oracle, focusing on defining and driving AI-first software delivery across platform engineering. This role involves setting technical vision for AI usage in design, coding, testing, reviews, release, and operations, establishing standards and guardrails for AI-assisted development, and leading the adoption of AI methods to improve reliability, security, and developer productivity. The position requires a strong security mindset, experience with distributed systems, and partnership with security and compliance leadership for responsible AI usage.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive platform architecture across multiple services/teams; ensure cohesive, scalable, secure designs.
  2. Lead strategic initiatives spanning platform security, reliability, and developer productivity (multi-quarter impact).
  3. Establish and enforce engineering standards (architecture patterns, secure-by-design requirements, operational readiness).
  4. Anticipate systemic risks (security, scalability, resiliency, compliance) and lead cross-team mitigation.
  5. Drive an engineering culture of operational excellence (SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, automation).

Skills

Required

  • BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • 10+ years of professional software development experience with significant architecture ownership
  • Proven track record delivering large-scale, mission-critical distributed systems in production
  • Strong security mindset and demonstrated ability to influence across organizations
  • Excellent communication skills; ability to drive alignment among technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Deep expertise in identity architecture and authorization: policy models, zero trust/service identity, federation patterns
  • Experience designing user provisioning platforms (workflow/orchestration, reconciliation, event-driven provisioning, auditability)
  • Experience with compliance-oriented engineering: audit logging, retention, access reviews, segregation of duties
  • Cloud experience preferred (OCI and cloud platform building strongly desired), including large-scale distributed systems and container platforms

What the JD emphasized

  • U.S. citizenship required due to security clearance requirements.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Other signals

  • define and drive standards/guardrails for AI-assisted development
  • lead adoption of AI-assisted methods that materially improve reliability, security, and developer productivity
  • partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to ensure responsible AI usage