Sr Principal Software Development Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction in building secure, high-performance components and services that meet rigorous enterprise and compliance requirements.
• Lead the design and development of new features and enhancements for KMS, including deep integration with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) and support for encryption-at-rest across OCI.
• Define specifications and architectural designs for new projects, ensuring alignment with OCI’s security vision and cloud-scale standards.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and maintainable solutions, ensuring tight integration with other Oracle services, such as Database, Storage Services, SaaS, and other OCI offerings.
• Drive end-to-end project execution, from technical requirements and prototyping to implementation and production rollout.
• Champion engineering best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement across the team—challenging assumptions and driving architectural excellence.
• Facilitate and oversee real-world operational readiness, going beyond simple API integration to ensure full lifecycle management and secure deployment at scale.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems or security services at scale.
• Deep knowledge of cryptographic systems, secure software development, and experience integrating with or building services that leverage HSMs, key lifecycle management, and encryption technologies.
• Proven track record of technical leadership, including mentoring, architecture ownership, and delivering high-impact software solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of microservices, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, NoSQL systems, storage, and distributed persistence.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams and functions.

Pay

Hiring Range in USD from: $135,200 - $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

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.

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

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