Principal Member of Technical Staff

**Job Description** + **Impact at Scale:** Shape the future of Java on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling millions of Java applications to thrive with advanced deployment, management, and observability features. + **Technical Excellence:** Work alongside world-class engineers behind the Java language and ecosystem. Tackle challenging distributed, multi-region systems challenges, influence technical architecture, and define best-in-class engineering practices. + **Ownership & Growth:** Take initiative from design through production, participate in technical leadership and mentorship, contribute to high-impact design reviews, and drive cross-team collaboration. + **Inclusive, Innovative Culture:** Join a diverse team that values new ideas, supports flexible work styles, and promotes psychological safety and continuous learning-including adoption of AI-assisted engineering. + **Modern Tech Stack:** Build and operate cloud-native solutions using Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and advanced observability and security practices-all in support of customer success and reliability. **Responsibilities** + Design, deliver, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available cloud services for Java application lifecycle management and monitoring on OCI. + Lead and own features end-to-end: from requirements and architecture/design to implementation, testing, deployment, and production operations (on-call as needed). + Drive service reliability, velocity, and quality with automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and robust incident/outage management. + Institute and champion "security by design," including strong authentication/authorization, secrets management, and compliance-minded development. + Mentor peers, perform code/design reviews, and raise engineering quality through high standards and clear technical documentation. + Collaborate closely with product managers, the Java Platform team, and partner organizations to deliver impactful, customer-centric solutions. + Thoughtfully and securely integrate AI-assisted engineering practices to boost developer efficiency and code quality while adhering to Oracle's security, privacy, and compliance standards. **Minimum Qualifications:** + 15+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise building backend services or platforms (Java preferred; Scala, Python, C# as secondary language). + Expert with modern backend frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Helidon) and REST API design (OpenAPI/Swagger). + Hands-on cloud experience (OCI preferred, AWS/Azure/GCP accepted), including networking and integration with managed services. + Advanced proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native operational patterns (rollouts, autoscaling, service mesh). + Robust DevOps and CI/CD practice (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform), and strong Git skills. + Security expertise: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, secrets management (Vault), secure coding standards. + Experience with both relational (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases, including schema management. + Solid Linux skills and troubleshooting experience with distributed systems and production incident resolution. + Clear communicator with a record of technical documentation, cross-functional teamwork, and consensus-building. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Deep expertise in Java in production: performance, memory, concurrency, tuning, etc. + Hands-on running cloud services on OCI (OKE, Functions, Load Balancing, Logging/Monitoring). + Proven architect of multi-tenant, highly available systems with leading observability and incident management practices. + Experience with cloud security, compliance frameworks, threat modeling, and vulnerability management. + Familiarity with event-driven/streaming, caching, and async design patterns. + Knowledge of API gateways, service mesh, zero-downtime deployment. + Practical experience adopting responsible AI engineering practices for productivity and quality. + Background in mentoring and technical leadership without formal authority. Disclaimer: **Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.** **Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only** US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 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 Oracle's 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 **About Us** As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow's technology to tackle today's challenges. We've partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector-and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity. We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all. Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. 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