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# Lead Principal Application Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Baton Rouge, LA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $104,600.0 - $264,100.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Software Applications, Software as a Service, Cloud Engineering, Web Development, Distributed Systems, Industry Standard Architecture, Python (Programming Language), Systems Development Life Cycle, Dropwizard, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/0F278787DAF745E48F6D31AEA1325A6F/job/

## About the Role

* BS or MS degree in computer science, or equivalent
 * 12+ years of developing and shipping enterprise distributed and/or cloud native systems
 * Strong grasp of system design fundamentals and distributed systems architectural best practices
 * Demonstrated ability to write great code in Java, Python, or similar OO languages
 * Experience with web application development using microservices frameworks such as Helidon, Dropwizard, Spring, etc.
 * Experience with Public Cloud SaaS, PaaS Services and/or related technology experience, Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development
 * Experience with containers and container orchestration technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)
 * Strong desire to make an impact and thrive in collaborative and energetic environments
 * Ability to effectively communicate technical concepts verbally and through design aspects

## Description

As a lead engineer on our team, you'll be responsible and lead efforts in designing and building scalable, distributed, and resilient software components and services to support health care platform, applications, and our end users. We believe in ownership and expect you to think long term, mentor, and empower other engineers. As a tech lead you will own the complete SDLC from architecture, development, testing, first class monitoring, to production.