Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Hartford, CT
$135,200–$306,400from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Hartford, CT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on designing, architecting, and building large-scale distributed storage infrastructure for a public cloud platform. Day-to-day work spans defining technical requirements, producing proof-of-concept implementations, writing and reviewing C/C++ code, and creating test automation. The position also carries a mentorship responsibility for less experienced engineers on the team.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 13 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 (7)
The title 'Sr. Principal Member of Technical Staff' maps to Oracle's IC5 career level (confirmed in the posting), which is a senior individual-contributor role with org-wide technical influence. However, the actual scope described — designing storage infrastructure services, mentoring junior engineers, writing and reviewing code — is consistent with a Senior engineer rather than a true Principal/org-wide authority, so seniority is assessed as Senior.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelors or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field' with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so a Bachelor's is treated as the minimum hard requirement.
C and C++ are listed together under Qualifications with 'Strong proficiency' language. They are distinct languages used together in this stack, so both are emitted as separate required skills.
All cloud platform experience (OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure), DAOS/SPDK, RDMA/high-performance networking, and AI/ML frameworks are explicitly called out as 'a plus' or 'strong plus' in the Qualifications section — treated as preferred.
The posting lists 'RMDA' which appears to be a typo for 'RDMA' (Remote Direct Memory Access); extracted as RDMA.
No specific work location is stated beyond 'US'; the compensation range is US-wide. No CBSA can be determined from the posting.
The very wide compensation band ($135,200–$306,400/yr) is explicitly acknowledged by Oracle as reflecting broad variation in experience, location, and business unit.
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