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# Principal Software Engineer

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $213,000.0 - $314,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Python (Programming Language), MongoDB, Oracle (Applications), Ruby on Rails, Ruby, Technical Debt, Webpack, Restful APIs
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_1ac9074c03fd8723bcf697c85734eeca

## About the Role

* Principal fluency in REST API, with Webpack on your roadmap
 * Familiarity with the rhythms of a fun-loving hybrid team
 * 10+ years putting Professionalism to work in a technology setting
 * Comfort owning a number that goes up or down because of you
 * At least 9 years of standing behind your own estimates

## Description

Oracle is on a mission to scale, and a sharp Principal Software Engineer with 10 of MongoDB experience is exactly who we need. The $213,000 - $314,000 is the floor, not the ceiling; with 9 years and technology ownership, this Oracle role keeps rising., * Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a strong code-review culture

 * Translate detail-loving business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
 * Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
 * Build Ruby dashboards so Oracle's technology team stops asking engineers for numbers
 * Reach into legacy Ruby on Rails modules and leave them cleaner than you found them, Oracle blends Python and Agile into technology products that feel, in the empowering words of its New York, NY founders, inevitable. Ownership runs deep here: you'll own outcomes, not just tasks, from your first week as a Principal Software Engineer.