Principal Application Software Engineer

The Oracle Health Data Intelligence organization builds and operates the data processing and intelligence platforms that power Oracle Health applications, national healthcare systems, and health analytics products supporting more than 500 million patients worldwide.

Within HAIDP, the Agentic Apps-HAIDP & RES team owns a broad, business-critical portfolio across Oracle Health. The team is responsible for Health AI Data Platform capabilities, Rules Execution Service, Federal VA initiatives, Disaster Recovery build and support, New Federal OCI regional build work, Medical Device and regulatory readiness, RES enhancements, and the Agentic AI Data Platform roadmap. Over the next 18 months, the team's scope will continue to expand across platform modernization, Federal VA delivery, OnPrem to OC3 migration, VA Fed DR development and testing, regional build support, modular AI-first architecture, regulatory scope reduction, EHR workflow integration, and delivery of AI Agent Health capabilities into FY27 and beyond.

This role requires engineers who can take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems; understand platform, customer, and operational impact; collaborate across teams; and drive work from design through implementation, validation, and production readiness.

What you will do

Participate and contribute to design discussions to build distributed, scalable, and fault-tolerant software systems.

Implement and build cloud services on top of the modern OCI infrastructure.

Participate in the entire software lifecycle, from design to development, to quality assurance, and to production.

Invest in the best engineering and operational practices upfront to ensure our software quality bar is high.

Optimize data processing pipelines to improve throughput and latency.

Leverage industry-leading tools at OCI to develop, build, deploy, and troubleshoot software.

What you will need

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline required.

Experience with distributed data processing systems (e.g. Hadoop, Kafka).

Hands on experience writing code with modern procedural programming languages such as Java and Python.

Good understanding of design concepts and ability to design software components in a distributed system.

Effective communication of technical ideas verbally and in writing, including technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams, and presentations.

Ability to collaborate effectively with the team and other stakeholders.

8+ years of relevant experience

Demonstrated competence as a technical lead of a non-trivial SaaS/IaaS project spanning multiple functional areas, involving up to 10 engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with production operations including deployment, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting issues when they arise.

Experience with containerized service development and operations.

Production experience with Cloud service providers (e.g. OCI, AWS, Azure).

Experience with partnering with managers and other stakeholders to define the technical culture and processes of SW engineering teams.

Experience with mentoring and growing junior engineers.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

11 years of experience in software development

OR

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 7 years of experience in software development

OR

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 7 years of experience in software development

OR

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 5 years of experience in software development

OR

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 5 years of experience in software development

OR

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 3 year of experience in software development.

Job Skills

-Same skills as prior level plus;

-Data Analysis

Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret data to produce actionable business insights.

-Agile Methodologies

Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.

-Automation

Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.

-Compliance

Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.

-Quality Assurance

Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of quality assurance, including ensuring adherence to standards and implementing quality control measures.

-Scripting Languages

Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of scripting languages, including writing and maintaining scripts to improve system efficiency.

-Software Test Plans

Demonstrated ability to develop and execute effective software test plans to validate product quality.

-User Experience Development

Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of user experience development, including designing intuitive and effective user interfaces and content.

-Code Review

Demonstrated ability to conduct in-depth code reviews for software quality assurance.

-Embedded Systems

Demonstrated ability to develop embedded systems, balancing hardware and software for optimal performance.

-Software Estimation

Demonstrated ability to provide accurate software effort and complexity estimates for project planning and scheduling.

Coding Experience

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

Database Experience

4 years of experience with databases.

Preferred Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience

11 years of experience in software development

OR

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 7 years of experience in software development

OR

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 7 years of experience in software development

OR

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 5 years of experience in software development

OR

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 5 years of experience in software development

OR

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 3 years of experience in software development.

Budget Experience

1 year of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Cloud Platforms Experience

3 years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).