Principal Backend Developer | Oracle Health

As a Principal Backend Developer, you'll play a mission-critical role in building our cutting-edge CDA platform—powered by generative AI and cloud-native innovation. Your deep expertise in data engineering will fuel a smarter, faster, and more connected healthcare system, directly impacting the lives of patients and empowering clinicians with intelligent tools for better care.

Join Us in Transforming Healthcare Through Data & AI!

We’re building something game-changing at Oracle Health—and we want you to be part of it.

We’re looking for a Principal Backend Developer who’s ready to roll up their sleeves and help us design and scale a next-generation data platform that powers AI-driven applications at the heart of modern healthcare.

 

What You’ll Do:

Architect the Future: Lead the design and development of a scalable, secure data platform built for AI-first healthcare solutions.

Build with Purpose: Collaborate with AI researchers, developers, and clinicians to bring powerful tools and insights into patient care.

Engineer for Scale: Own backend infrastructure for data ingestion, storage, and retrieval—ensuring performance, security, and reliability.

Model Complexity Simply: Design data models that reflect the richness and nuance of real-world healthcare data.

Empower Smart Search: Integrate NLP and search tech to enable conversational and semantic search, along with auto-summarization capabilities.

Streamline the Flow: Develop data pipelines using Kafka, Flink, RabbitMQ, and other tools to ensure efficient and real-time data movement.

Champion Data Privacy: Ensure compliance and security with access controls, encryption, and best-in-class privacy protocols.

Lead with Impact: Mentor junior engineers, promote best practices, and help shape a culture of technical excellence.

Innovate Constantly: Stay ahead of emerging AI/ML, cloud, and platform trends to drive continuous platform innovation.

 

What You Bring:

Proven Expertise: 6+ years of software engineering experience focused on backend and data-centric systems.

Technical Mastery: Strong in Java, Python, C#, Go or similar languages, and in building RESTful APIs and microservices.

Cloud-Savvy: Deep experience with cloud-native development (OCI, AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Database & Architecture Depth: In-depth knowledge of data modeling, data access controls, and search tools like Opensearch and Pinecone.

Pipelines & Messaging: Hands-on experience with tools like Kafka, Flink, RabbitMQ, and Oracle GoldenGate.

Engineering Rigor: Strong foundation in system design, distributed systems, and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes).

Team Player: Excellent communicator who thrives in cross-functional teams and is passionate about mentoring others.

Visionary Thinker: Constantly exploring new tech to improve performance, efficiency, and innovation.

 

Why Oracle Health?

Work on mission-driven technology that saves lives and transforms care around the world.

Collaborate with a world-class team at the intersection of healthcare, AI, and cloud innovation.

Thrive in a dynamic, inclusive environment that celebrates bold ideas and technical excellence.

Enjoy competitive compensation, benefits, and professional growth opportunities.

Be part of something bigger—a future where healthcare is more human, connected, and intelligent.

If you’re excited to build what’s next in healthcare—and you’ve got the vision and skills to do it—we want to hear from you.

 

Let’s shape the future of health, together.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $96,800 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

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