Principal Application Software Engineer

Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced Principal Application Software Engineer to lead the AI Platform and Productivity Engineering organization. This role will own the design and operating standards for the AI control plane and data plane Codex enablement plugin strategy Skills and GPT guidance memory strategy model routing. The role will also own AI cost token and usage intelligenceincluding usage telemetry cost attribution forecasting token budgets threshold alerts showback/chargeback and model-cost optimization. By providing the data and technical patterns behind dynamic model enforcement the role enables leaders to distinguish productive AI investment from avoidable spend while allowing teams to scale AI safely and efficiently.

Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning compatibility and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards capacity planning and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Bachelors of Technology () 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 7 years of experience in software development
• 5 years of experience designing and delivering scalable distributed systems APIs developer platforms or cloud services.
• 3 years of experience with cloud platforms such as OCI AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• 3 years of experience with programming languages such as Java Python JavaScript Go
• Experience with production operations including observability logging monitoring incident response service reliability and performance optimization.
• Experience working across engineering architecture security product and business stakeholders to deliver shared platform capabilities.
• 4 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Skills

AI Skills and Experience

• Experience building integrating or operating AI-enabled applications generative AI platforms developer tools or enterprise productivity solutions.
• Experience with LLM application patterns including prompt design retrieval-augmented generation tool/function calling agents memory evaluations and model routing.
• Experience designing AI control-plane/data-plane architecture reusable plugins Skills GPTs shared services or enterprise AI enablement platforms.
• Experience implementing AI governance security privacy model-access controls policy-driven model selection or certification processes.
• Experience with AI cost optimization including token and context management usage telemetry cost attribution forecasting budgeting caching and model-performance optimization.
• Experience defining API standards versioning deprecation rollout and interoperability strategies for platforms with multiple downstream consumers

Qualifications
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.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99600 to $209500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.


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 Oracles 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 - IC4