AI-Native Principal Software Engineer

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation’s Cloud Infrastructure group seeks a Principal Software Development Engineer who operates as an AI-native builder. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, agentic IDEs, and automation-first workflows to rapidly create intelligent cloud systems.

You will work across distributed systems, automation platforms, and developer tooling to accelerate delivery, reliability, and scale while mentoring others in modern AI-native practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable production systems.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience building distributed systems, cloud native applications, APIs, or automation platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, containers, and modern software development practices.
• Strong systems thinking, debugging, and problem solving skills.
• Ability to independently drive projects in fast moving and ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable cloud native systems, automation platforms, and intelligent operational tooling.
• Use AI assisted development workflows as the primary engineering model for software design, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation.
• Build systems where humans supervise and orchestrate intelligent automation rather than manually executing repetitive engineering tasks.
• Rapidly prototype and productionize solutions using modern AI native development environments and agentic workflows.
• Develop internal developer platforms, APIs, operational workflows, and AI enabled engineering systems.
• Improve engineering productivity through intelligent automation, workflow orchestration, and self service tooling.
• Partner across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to solve complex technical and operational challenges.
• Drive operational excellence through observability, automated remediation, telemetry, and resilient system design.
• Contribute to architecture, technical strategy, and engineering best practices across the organization.
• Mentor engineers in modern AI native development practices and automation first engineering approaches.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Oracle Corporation’s Cloud Infrastructure group seeks a Principal Software Development Engineer who operates as an AI-native builder. The role emphasizes AI-assisted development, agentic IDEs, and automation-first workflows to rapidly create intelligent cloud systems.

You will work across distributed systems, automation platforms, and developer tooling to accelerate delivery, reliability, and scale while mentoring others in modern AI-native practices.