Lead Principal Application Software Engineer

Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the application software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive application-focused improvements. Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new application features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify application design and code. Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across application projects and/or products/services to drive improvements. Utilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex application issues. Resolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systemic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Leads task and project initiatives for the design and development of application software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations for application components and services. Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer use cases, root causes, and mitigations to align and explain rationale behind application solutions. Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding application-related issues to mitigate recurrence. Collaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon application development practices, secure coding standards, and code quality, providing coaching to less experienced team members. Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities). Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

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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: $104,600 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Key Responsibilities Application Software Development:

Architects and delivers multi-team features and modernization initiatives with clear, organization-level KPIs.

Establishes global production-readiness standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident tooling) and drives adoption.

Diagnoses and resolves high-severity, multi-system failures; creates systemic reliability improvements across apps/OCI.

Harmonizes QA strategy across teams (test pyramids, non-functional testing) to ensure consistent app quality.

Makes significant architectural decisions; leads migrations and pattern adoptions with deprecation plans.

Creates scalable blueprints and reference implementations adopted by multiple teams.

Defines cross-team API governance and dependency management frameworks.

Shapes prioritization across multiple teams using data from field/customer, telemetry, and live-site signals.

Institutionalizes feedback loops into planning cadences; measures impact.

Mentors Staff engineers; partners with Product and Design to balance customer value and technical strategy.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.

Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineer