Principal Application Software Engineer - Cloud Performance and Scalability

Principal Application Software Engineer

As part of the Oracle Health and Analytics Cloud Performance Engineering (PSR) team, you will be a key technical leader focused on critical aspect of optimizing Performance, Scalability, Availability, and Reliability for Oracle’s mission-critical Cloud Services.

Your role covers all software development lifecycle stages from a performance perspective: architectural and design reviews, benchmarking, sizing, and resolving production performance issues to maximize customer satisfaction and success.

You’ll champion service reliability and efficiency, manage system changes, monitor infrastructure, respond to incidents, and plan capacity across entire cloud service ecosystems. 

You will own significant projects/services, establish your influence within the team, act as a subject matter expert, and contribute to operational tooling and process improvements.

As an IC4, you are expected to leverage your extensive experience, which includes a minimum of seven plus years in software engineering or a related field, a solid understanding of architectural concepts surrounding Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software Development, and proficiency in Java/J2EE, with additional experience in Python being advantageous.

Scope & Required Experience (IC4)

As an IC4, you will focus on complex challenges within specific projects or applications.

• 7+ years of software engineering or related experience

• Strong understanding of cloud computing and enterprise software architecture

• Proficient with Java/J2EE

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

• Experience in microservices architecture

• Expertise in load testing (JMeter), profiling, monitoring and analysis tools

• Experience in resolving performance related, scaling, and stability issues

• Exposure to AI/ML, prompt engineering, NLP, and speech processing

• Knowledge of open-source cloud technologies: Kubernetes, Kafka, caching, ElasticSearch, Big Data, etc.

• In-depth knowledge of Linux, Docker, virtualization, compute, and networking

• Experience in Database SQL analysis and data modelling skills / tuning analysis/tuning using AWR reports, SQLHC, etc.
• Experience in Shell/Python scripting for CICD automation with Jenkins

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science

• Added advantage - Experience in Analytics products and Oracle Cloud