Software development jobs in the United States

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Counted Nov 2, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 51,736
Employers: 9,813

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $141,109Across 11,001 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $57.37Across 2,261 listings
Average starting payUSD / month: $13,523Across 52 listings
Average starting payCAD / year: $133,360Across 44 listings
Average starting payUSD / week: $2,136Across 10 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 9%4,476 listings
Hybrid: 7%3,613 listings
On-site: 15%7,813 listings

Not specified: 69% (35,834 listings)

Employers hiring include Akamai Technologies, Inc. (697), Lockheed Martin (676), Salesforce.com (608).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software development jobs in the United States

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Senior Fullstack Developer
Newhouse Project Consulting
Remote, United States
- $65 to $72 USD / hour
We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead the development, enhancement, and support of multiple business applications. This role combines hands-on software…
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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
- $200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
Join a small AI/ML product engineering team building infrastructure for user-facing software and AI-powered products. You will own core platform capabilities end to end, helping the team…
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Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems
True Talent Solutions Partners
Palo Alto, CA
- $145,000 to $275,000 USD / year
Join a customer-facing product engineering team building command-and-control and autonomy software for robotic systems. You will develop cloud and edge services that connect sensors,…
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Software Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
New York, NY
- $192,500 to $258,000 USD / year
Join an early-stage AI software team building tools for in-person sales and coaching. You will ship full-stack product features from concept to production, helping customers solve practical…
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Software Engineer, AI Agents
True Talent Solutions Partners
Remote, United States
- $200,000 to $320,000 USD / year
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Software Engineer
Encompass Onsite
Fort Lauderdale, FL
As a Software Engineer within our Business Services division, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions that drive business…
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Portsmouth, VA
- $70,752.79 to $91,085.54 USD / year
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Woodlawn, MD
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United States
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Trustly
NY
- $218,000 to $328,000 USD / year
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Fort Belvoir, VA
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Glen Allen, VA
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…surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive…
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Principal Application Software Engineer- Oracle Health
Oracle
United States
- $99,600 to $209,500 USD / year
We are seeking a versatile Principal Application Software Engineer to contribute across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, application development, integration…
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Senior Application Software Engineer- Oracle Health
Oracle
United States
- $87,000 to $187,000 USD / year
We are seeking a versatile Senior Application Software Engineer to contribute across platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, application development, integration…
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Newport News, VA
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Newport News, VA
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The Boeing Company
Herndon, VA
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Java Software Engineer (Associate/Experienced)
The Boeing Company
Herndon, VA
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San Diego, CA
Apple’s Cellular Software team is seeking highly motivated and disciplined engineers to collaborate on groundbreaking cellular technologies. The role entails identifying and optimizing…
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San Diego, CA
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Phoenix, AZ
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Durham, NC
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AWS Cloud Engineer
Bright Vision Technologies
Remote, United States
- $115,000 to $165,000 USD / year
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Oracle

Principal Platform Software Engineer

Nashville, TN, United States

$104,500 to $234,600 USD / year

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Pay: $104,500 to $234,600 USD / year
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 2, 2026

Original job description

Leads platform projects crossing multiple teams, evolving runtimes or middleware patterns for interoperability and multi-tenant scale. Diagnoses and resolves complex cross-service issues; enforces versioning, compatibility, and safe rollout practices. Drives observability standards, capacity planning, and resilience patterns across several workloads. Produces migration guides and adoption playbooks that raise ecosystem consistency and developer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

Lead cross-team evolution of middleware patterns or runtimes to standardize interoperability at scale.
Define and enforce versioning, deprecation, and rollout strategies that minimize downstream breaks.
Drive shared observability baselines (SLOs, error budgets) and resilience patterns across several services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
Develops fixes for identified issues.
Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.
Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.
Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.
Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.

Collaboration & Partnership:

Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives. Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.

Problem Solving:

Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices. Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.

Continuous Learning:

Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.

Continuous Improvement:

Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.

Performance and Development:

Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $104,500 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.Career Level - IC4

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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Software development
Coaching
Debugging
Troubleshooting
Quality assurance methodologies
ICT system programming
Structural engineering
Research
Communication skills
Leadership
Problem solving

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