Principal Software Developer - Full-time

Oracle9 months ago
Lansing, MI, United States
Hybrid
Full-time
Junior Level (1-3 years)

Job Description

Position Overview

As a Principal Software engineer in our team, you'll be responsible and lead efforts in designing and building scalable, distributed, and resilient software components and infrastructure to support a health care platform, applications, and our end users. Your engineering expertise will allow us to build a newer generation of AI-enabled developer productivity tooling and primitives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Responsibilities: Design and implementation of managing application settings across different environments, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and optimized for AI-driven applications.
  • Collaborate closely with cross functional teams, including AI researchers, software developers, and healthcare domain experts, to define and refine the platform's architecture.
  • Develop and maintain the backend infrastructure, focusing on data ingestion, storage, processing, and retrieval systems.
  • Implement data modeling and database design to support complex healthcare data structures and relationships.
  • Integrate search technologies and natural language processing (NLP) capabilities to enable conversational search, semantic search, and summarization features.
  • Experience building RESTful or gRPC services; API design, pagination, error handling, and observability.
  • Define and develop software for tasks associated with the development, debugging, or design of software applications or operating systems.
  • Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and technical excellence.
  • Provide technical leadership to other software developers by specifying, designing, and implementing changes to existing software architecture.
  • Stay updated with the latest advancements in cloud-native AI/ML technologies and propose innovative solutions to enhance our platforms.

Required Qualifications

  • Qualifications: BS or MS degree in Computer Science or a related field with a strong academic background.
  • Must be U.S. citizen and be able to obtain a security clearance once hired.
  • Experience Required: 8+ years of relevant software development experience, with a focus on backend and data-centric applications.
  • Proficient in Java, Python, or similar object-oriented languages for building robust backend systems.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including expertise in data structures, algorithms, RESTful services, and microservices architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud-native development on major cloud platforms (OCI, Azure, GCP, AWS) is essential.
  • Familiarity with cloud engineering infrastructure and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker).
  • Excellent communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership and a passion for mentoring junior team members.

Benefits & Perks

  • Salary: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum
  • May be eligible for bonus and equity.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
  • Short term disability and long term disability.
  • Life insurance and AD&D.
  • Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child).
  • Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
  • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
  • Paid time off, including Flexible Vacation, accrued Vacation, 11 paid holidays, and 72 hours of paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
  • Financial planning and group legal services.
  • Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

Required Skills

Containerization
gRPC
Java
Backend Infrastructure
Docker
RESTful Services
Python
Cloud-Native Development
Kubernetes
Microservices Architecture
Distributed Systems
Data Structures
Algorithms
Data Modeling