Lead Principal Application Software Engineer- Oracle Health
Oracle · Columbia, SC
$104,600–$264,100from the description
Jul 7, 2026
Columbia, SC
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and operating a cloud-native platform that automates the end-to-end process of onboarding healthcare customers onto Oracle's EHR infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans designing distributed services, writing orchestration and provisioning automation, and embedding AI-driven capabilities — including LLM-based agents and workflow automation — into the platform. Suits engineers with deep cloud infrastructure and distributed systems experience who also have hands-on background building AI-enabled tooling.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job title carries no level word, but Oracle internally labels this 'Career Level - IC5', which typically maps to a Staff/Principal individual contributor band. However, the JD's scope — owning a platform within one team — and the 10+ years requirement are consistent with a Senior engineer; IC5 at Oracle spans a wide range and the role does not describe org-wide technical authority, so Senior is the appropriate pool-sizing band.
No specific work location is stated in the posting; the compensation range is described as US-wide. Remote status is unspecified — the posting does not say the role is fully remote, so remote is set to false.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience', which means equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree — treated as no hard degree gate.
The 'MCP' and 'prompt engineering' items from the AI requirements section are methodology/technique references rather than named tools and are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
Infrastructure as Code is captured via Terraform (the only named IaC tool); the generic 'Infrastructure as Code' phrase is not emitted as a separate skill.
Preferred qualifications include cloud control planes/workflow orchestration, fleet/lifecycle management, observability platforms, networking, storage, cloud security, technical leadership, ML fundamentals, and AI-native application experience — these are domain areas rather than named tools and are omitted, except where a named technology (MLOps) was extractable.
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