Principal Platform Software Engineer

Oracle; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 105,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Competitive benefits package

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Software Developer 4 to design backend services and AI-native workflows that enable agents to plan, execute, and audit tool calls across enterprise systems.

The role focuses on secure, scalable integrations, tooling, and platform capabilities within OCI production environments, collaborating with multiple product teams to deliver production-ready agentic solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems, cloud services, APIs, and production operations.
• Experience designing secure service integrations with identity, authorization, auditability, and policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, hosted tools, vector stores, or agent orchestration patterns.
• Ability to translate ambiguous product goals into concrete technical designs and reliable implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs for AI-native applications, hosted agents, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Build integrations across agent runtimes, MCP servers, tools gateway, identity systems, guardrails, and Oracle service APIs.
• Develop secure patterns for tool execution, policy checks, human approval flows, audit traces, and action validation.
• Partner with AI Services, Data Platform, Console AI, Support, Retail, Fusion, and other product teams to convert business workflows into production-ready agentic solutions.
• Help modernize existing AI services using Agent One, MCP enablement, reusable tools, and shared platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness for AI solutions running in OCI production environments.
• Work with architects and senior engineers to define service contracts, schemas, SDK/API patterns, onboarding templates, and repeatable engineering standards.
• Support customer-facing and internal AI initiatives such as Console AI, AI service modernization, agentic document/language workflows, AI solutioning, and MCP-based enterprise integrations.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Cloud services

LLMs / AI agents

OCI / Kubernetes

Tools

OCI

Kubernetes

Java

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Job Description

The Software Developer 4 will work on high-impact AI solution designs that enable agents to plan, reason, call tools, access enterprise systems, execute workflows, and present results through safe, auditable application surfaces. The role will contribute to platform components such as AI Apps Gateway, Agent / MCP Gateway integrations, hosted agent workflows, tool discovery and execution, structured outputs, guardrails, approval flows, grounding, evaluation traces, and reusable MCP patterns for Oracle product teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend services and APIs for AI-native applications, hosted agents, and enterprise workflow automation.
• Build integrations across agent runtimes, MCP servers, tools gateway, identity systems, guardrails, and Oracle service APIs.
• Develop secure patterns for tool execution, policy checks, human approval flows, audit traces, and action validation.
• Partner with AI Services, Data Platform, Console AI, Support, Retail, Fusion, and other product teams to convert business workflows into production-ready agentic solutions.
• Help modernize existing AI services using Agent One, MCP enablement, reusable tools, and shared platform capabilities.
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability, and operational readiness for AI solutions running in OCI production environments.
• Work with architects and senior engineers to define service contracts, schemas, SDK/API patterns, onboarding templates, and repeatable engineering standards.
• Support customer-facing and internal AI initiatives such as Console AI, AI service modernization, agentic document/language workflows, AI solutioning, and MCP-based enterprise integrations.

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Responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with distributed systems, cloud services, APIs, and production operations.
• Experience designing secure service integrations with identity, authorization, auditability, and policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, tool calling, MCP, hosted tools, vector stores, or agent orchestration patterns.
• Ability to translate ambiguous product goals into concrete technical designs and reliable implementation plans.
• Experience with OCI, Kubernetes/containers, Java/Python/TypeScript, service telemetry, and operational excellence is strongly relevant.
• Comfortable working across teams and shaping reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off feature implementations.

Disclaimer:

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: $104,500 to $234,600 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.

Career Level – IC4

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