Principal Software Developer

Principal Software Developer

Oracle Application Labs (OAL) designs, maintains, and enhances the applications that power Oracle’s daily operations. The Oracle Store Platform team supports a global eCommerce platform serving customers, partners, franchisees, and employees. Join us to build innovative solutions from the ground up, improve existing systems, and contribute to cutting-edge initiatives in AI, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise engineering for an improved customer experience.

Technical Expertise:

• Qualification & Experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field. Minimum 5+ years’ hands-on experience in software development using Java, Python, Spring Boot, with strong grounding in data structures, algorithms, and their application in solving complex engineering challenges.
• Application Development: Experience in designing, scalable microservices in an enterprise environment.
• Self-Sufficiency: Proven ability to rapidly learn new technologies, prototype solutions, and independently design and implement application components.
• LLM Technologies: Practical exposure to working with Large Language Models, including prompt engineering practices, fine-tuning methods, and model deployment strategies.
• Agentic Frameworks: Hands-on development of agent-based workflows using frameworks such as OpenAI Agent SDK, LangGraph, or equivalent agent orchestration toolsets.
• RAG Systems: Experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation components including indexing, metadata strategies, hybrid search, relevance evaluation, and pipeline integration.

Preferred Qualifications

• OCI Services: Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including services such as OCI GenAI Service, Object Storage, API Gateway, Functions, or Streaming.
• Containers: Hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes on Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and container tooling.
• Vector Data Platforms: Familiarity with vector-enabled data systems such as Oracle 23ai Vector Database, Pinecone, FAISS, or comparable technologies (desirable).

Soft Skills & Leadership

• Proven ability to drive technical outcomes, take ownership of deliverables, and work independently in fast-evolving AI solution spaces.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts, document solution approaches, and collaborate across distributed teams.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability when working with complex AI workloads, distributed systems, and cloud-native application behaviors.
• A proactive, experimentation-oriented mindset with a strong willingness to learn emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns.