Lead Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle·Oracle Recruiting

United StatesFull-timePosted Jun 29, 2026

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Location / Work Authorization / Clearance

Role is based in the United States.
U.S. citizenship required due to security clearance requirements.
No visa sponsorship available.
Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

Define and drive platform architecture across multiple services/teams; ensure cohesive, scalable, secure designs.
Lead strategic initiatives spanning platform security, reliability, and developer productivity (multi-quarter impact).
Establish and enforce engineering standards (architecture patterns, secure-by-design requirements, operational readiness).
Anticipate systemic risks (security, scalability, resiliency, compliance) and lead cross-team mitigation.
Drive an engineering culture of operational excellence (SLOs, error budgets, incident learning, automation).
Mentor principal/senior engineers; raise the bar through design reviews, technical deep-dives, and hands-on contributions.
Partner with product, security, and operations leadership to align roadmaps and deliver outcomes.

AI-First Engineering Expectations

Set the technical vision for AI-first software delivery across platform engineering: how AI is used in design, coding, testing, reviews, release, and operations—at scale and with measurable outcomes.
Define and drive standards/guardrails for AI-assisted development (quality gates, review requirements, testing expectations, documentation, and operational readiness), aligned with enterprise security/privacy/compliance needs.
Lead adoption of AI-assisted methods that materially improve reliability, security, and developer productivity (e.g., automated test expansion, safer refactoring, operational diagnostics, policy-as-code generation with validation).
Partner with Security, Compliance, and Engineering leadership to ensure responsible AI usage and to reduce risk associated with AI-generated artifacts.

Minimum Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.

Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
15 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 11 years of experience in software development

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 11 years of experience in software development

Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 9 years of experience in software development

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 9 years of experience in software development

Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 7 years of experience in software development.

Job Skills:

Same skills as prior level.
Coding Experience:

10 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages (e.g., SQL, C/C++, JavaScript).
Database Experience:
6 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
16 years of experience in software development

Job Skills:
Oracle Product Knowledge: Demonstrated knowledge of Oracle products and the ability to educate customers on their effective use.
People Leadership / Management Experience:
2 years of experience in a technical lead role with or without direct reports.
Budget Experience:
3 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Cloud Platforms Experience:
5 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).