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Principal Application Software Engineer
Oracle, Nashville, Tennessee
- Pay
- $100K–$210K / year
- Work type
- Onsite
- Level
- Principal
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Oct 2, 2026
About the role
Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the application software
development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive
application-focused improvements. Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and
guide new application features and enhancements, leading design specifications,
ensuring accessibility, and developing documents to clarify application design
and code. Leads code reviews across multiple application areas to drive
improvements. Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex
application issues. Develops fixes for identified issues. Troubleshoots and
resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API)
functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Implements and
contributes to developing application software, systems, and services, ensuring
review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends
project or design scope for application components. Collaborates with
stakeholders to understand customer use cases and align application solutions.
May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding
application-related issues. Collaborates with the team and externally to follow
application development practices, secure coding standards, and code quality,
providing coaching to less experienced team members. Performs periodic
maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require
upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with
manager upon completion.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities
Application Software Development:
* Drives feature development within an application.
* Provides global production support to cloud-based applications as needed for
critical issues by applying a working knowledge of at least one specialty
area.
* Troubleshoots and debugs routine and non-routine Oracle applications services
and Oracle Cloud infrastructure, end-user application integrations, or
acquisitions.
* Partners across QA and engineering teams to discuss changes impacting an
application's functionality and ensures quality and consistency across
specific applications.
* Considers designs of the existing software architecture when developing code
for applications.
* Translates requirements and features into a structured, scalable,
maintainable, and performant code plan for an application.
* Contributes to establishing the dependencies (e.g., API) associated with the
functionality of an application.
* Discusses application requirements with the customer while considering
scalability and reliability, and recommends build priorities within teams and
defines build priorities within team.
* References and shares other sources of feedback (e.g., online forums, live
site maintenance reports) to refine application requirements.
* Collaborates with Designers, Product Managers, Software Engineers, and
stakeholders when evaluating and integrating customer specifications and
business requirements.
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Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:
* Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to
achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon
completion.
* Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development
lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
* Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and
enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and
develops documents to clarify software design and code.
* Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
* Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software
issues.
* Develops fixes for identified issues.
* Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and
non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging,
monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with
manager and/or lead upon completion.
* Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable
solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
* Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming
interface (API) functionality and integration. Implements complex API
versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:
* Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services,
ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion.
Recommends project or design scope.
* Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in
existing software architecture.
* Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural
standards.
* Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns
with software architecture.
* Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in
software design.
* Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential
architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:
* Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align
solutions.
* May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding
customer-reported issues.
* Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on
feedback.
* Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of
issues and effective communication.
* Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training
processes.
* Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance
issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g.,
future enhancements).
Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:
* Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and
coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
* Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and
ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during
development, independently.
* Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and
applies them to software development processes.
* Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security
vulnerabilities.
Development Operations - System Maintenance:
* Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require
upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results
with manager upon completion.
* Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to
ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
* Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and
deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a
moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and
prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and
adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
Collaboration & Partnership:
* Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve
shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders,
and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports
inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives,
ensuring others feel heard and respected.
* Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range
of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard
practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a
thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes
to, and documents problem-solving strategies.
* Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in
new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.
Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve
skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous
learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
* Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation
of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of
processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on
key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative
approaches and methods for continued improvement.
Performance and Development:
* Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate
interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field involving
coding or equivalent practical experience
* 6+ years of total experience in software development including the building
scalable solutions and web applications
* Demonstrated ability to write great code using Java, GoLang, C#, or similar
OO languages
* Proven ability to deliver products and experience with the full software
development lifecycle
* Experience working on large-scale, highly distributed services
infrastructure
* Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical
tier-one livesite servicing
* Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, a sense of
ownership, and drive
* Experience designing architectures that demonstrate deep technical depth in
one area, or span many products, to enable high availability, scalability,
market-leading features and flexibility to meet future business demands
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience as technical lead on a large-scale applications and systems
* Hands-on experience developing and maintaining services on a public cloud
platform (e.g., OCI, AWS, Azure)
* Experience working on Kubernetes
* Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) languages, preferably Terraform
* Strong knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL)
* Strong knowledge of Computer Networking (OSI layers, HTTP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP,
Routers, Gateways, Subnets, etc.)
* Knowledge of Linux internals, Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills
* Familiarity with host virtualization technologies (KVM, Containers, Docker,
etc.)
* Able to effectively communicate technical ideas verbally and in writing
(technical proposals, design specs, architecture diagrams and presentations)
* Experience with hiring, mentorship and raising the talent bar across the
organization
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: $99,600 to $209,500 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.
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.
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