Principal Software Engineer @ Oracle

The Technical Architecture team is driving the next generation of cloud-native Fusion Applications, using modern industry standard technology and enabling the latest DevOp practices We are looking for a software engineer with an architectural mindset to help put this vision into practice

One of the key areas are investing in is ensuring high code quality, including AI generated code We are looking for an experienced engineer to build tools to analyze the code base and then use this information to educate, enable and encourage developers to follow good coding practices and standards We also want to use this knowledge to improve the quality of software created by coding agents This will cover a broad range of goals including:
ensuring consistency across all products
dependency analysis
ensuring compliance with defined standards
improving readability and maintainability of code
reducing duplication
ensuring the purpose of the code is easily understood

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems

To be able to perform this role, you will have to have a very strong core set of skills:
Bachelor s degree or equivalent practical experience
6+ years of software development experience
a thorough grounding in software engineering fundamentals such as data structures, algorithms, performance optimization
a passion for building high quality, well engineered code
experience analyzing large code bases via static code analysis or other related techniques
the ability to proactively find the best solution for a problem by reviewing the latest technologies and methodologies
3+ years experience developing Java applications
strong written and verbal communication skills
In addition to these qualities, there are many other skills which would be extremely desirable for this position You would not be expected to have all these skills, however you should have strong experience in some of them, and be keen to learn expertise in other areas:
JavaScript
Python
REST and microservices
Oracle Graph DB (or other graph database experience)
SonarQube (or other static code analysis tools)
CI/CD
Oracle AI Vector Search
IDE AI coding agents, eg Cline
AI technologies/standards: eg RAG, MCP Servers
React
OCI