Senior Principal Software Developer

$96,800 - $251,600/Yr

Oracle - Boston, MA

Full-time - Senior

Boston, MA

Publishing Industries

About the position

The position is for a hands-on technical leader within the Fusion Applications Technical Architecture team at Oracle, focusing on the development of a new cloud-native policy management and authorization service as part of the next generation architecture (codename Spectra). This role involves leading engineering efforts, mentoring team members, and making critical architectural and technical design decisions while ensuring the service operates efficiently in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Understanding problem scenarios, customer requirements and breaking it down to workable features
• Propose and review designs, solutions and implementation with an emphasis on metric driven results
• Participate in various planning, backlog grooming and technical design reviews
• Writing quality backend code, including validation tests using languages including, but not limited to, GoLang, Java, and Bash
• Working with cloud native technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and gRPC
• Ensuring safe and compliant release management across different stages
• Operating the service through production, including making operational and continuous improvements
• Analyzing and debugging issues, including bugs, customer issues, and performance issues
• Providing coaching and mentoring to the engineering team
• Perform thorough code reviews, follow best engineering practices with performance, scalability, resiliency and security as key tenets
• Collaborating and contributing in an inclusive and diverse environment to continuously build a healthy work culture

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related technical field and/or equivalent IT industry experience
• 10+ years of software development experience
• Proficient in data structures and computer fundamentals
• Excellent coding, debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Good understanding and/or proven track record of working with scalable distributed systems
• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management systems including industry standard protocols such as OAuth, OpenID Connect and SAML
• Knowledge of AAA (authentication, authorization and audit) concepts, in particular RBAC, ABAC and policy-based access control models
• Knowledge of cloud deployment security, security lifecycle and operations practices
• Experience with designing and writing REST APIs
• Experience working, integrating with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience architecting and developing using GoLang preferred
• Familiarity with open-source tools and integration
• Good experience of cloud architecture and technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh products
• Experience with CICD pipelines
• Have worked in DevOps culture, participated in on-call rotations and demonstrated experience in detecting and reducing operational toil

Benefits

• 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: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance