Senior Software Engineer
Oracle · Pierre, SD
$79,200–$209,500from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Pierre, SD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-to-senior individual contributor engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating production software systems and services. Day-to-day work spans feature development, on-call incident response, root-cause analysis, and improving observability through metrics and dashboards. The role suits an engineer with 4–8 years of experience who can work independently, mentor peers, and balance technical tradeoffs across reliability, security, and scalability.
Senior level · 4+ years · 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 (4)
The job title is not stated in the posting; Oracle's internal career level 'IC3' typically maps to a mid-to-senior individual contributor. The 4–8 year experience range and the scope of responsibilities (owning subsystem design, leading RCAs, mentoring) support a Senior classification.
No specific programming languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, or tooling are named anywhere in the posting — the requirements are stated entirely in terms of capabilities and practices. Only the four concrete capability areas (production systems, incident response, metrics/dashboards, service health monitoring) are emitted as skills.
A BS or MS in Computer Science is listed under Responsibilities (the requirements section), but the posting explicitly accepts 'equivalent domain-specific experience' in lieu of a degree, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The role blends software development (feature design, coding) with operational/SRE responsibilities (on-call, incident response, dashboards). 15-1252 Software Developers is the primary classification given the emphasis on designing and building features; 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the strong operational component.
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