Senior Principal Software Engineer - Secrets Managment at Oracle
Jackson, MS
$135,200–$306,400from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Jackson, MS
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building and operating systems that handle secrets, cryptographic keys, and certificates at scale. Day-to-day work involves designing secure APIs and automation for credential rotation, improving key exchange and trust mechanisms, and maintaining the reliability of security-critical infrastructure used by other engineering teams. The role also carries significant technical leadership responsibilities, including threat modeling, cross-team alignment, and mentoring.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting carries Oracle's internal career level 'IC5', which maps to a senior/principal individual-contributor band — consistent with the scope described (leading complex projects independently, mentoring engineers, driving cross-team alignment), but the job title itself is unlabeled, so advertised seniority is set to Unspecified.
The role sits squarely at the intersection of backend software engineering and security engineering. 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the primary classification because the core deliverables are building and shipping production services, APIs, and tooling; 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is the runner-up given the heavy security-engineering emphasis (threat modeling, hardening, key/certificate management).
No specific programming language, framework, or secrets-management platform (e.g. HashiCorp Vault, AWS KMS) is named anywhere in the posting. All skills extracted are capability domains stated as hard requirements under the Qualifications section.
The compensation range ($135,200–$306,400/yr) is explicitly noted by Oracle as covering wide variation in experience, geography, and business line — the upper end likely reflects the IC5 / senior-principal band.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design, key management, PKI / certificate lifecycle, secrets management.
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