Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer at Oracle
Topeka, KS
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Topeka, KS
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and agentic AI platforms on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans architecture, production code, incident response, and reliability engineering for AI workloads — including LLM orchestration, inference infrastructure, and autonomous workflows. The role also involves cross-team technical leadership and mentoring, suiting engineers with deep distributed systems backgrounds and practical AI platform experience.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · 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.
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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.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
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 (9)
The title is 'Principal Core Infrastructure Software Engineer' and the posting explicitly describes it as a 'Senior Staff-level' role. The advertised seniority reflects the title's 'Principal' framing; however, the actual requirements (6-10+ years, deep hands-on IC work, no org-wide authority described) are consistent with a Senior engineer, so seniority is set to Senior.
The experience requirement is stated as '6-10+ years'; the minimum (6) is used for the overall years minimum.
Degree requirement is None: the JD explicitly accepts 'equivalent practical experience' as an alternative to a Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D.
No specific work location is stated beyond 'US-based'; no CBSA or state could be determined. The compensation range is US-wide.
Java, Golang, and Python are listed as a single OR requirement in the required qualifications; Java is used as the primary skill name with Golang and Python as alternatives.
LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LlamaIndex appear under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable orchestration frameworks; LangGraph is the primary with the others as alternatives.
AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud appear under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable large-scale cloud platform examples.
AI-assisted development tools (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) are listed under Preferred Qualifications; Codex is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
The alternative occupation code 15-1299 is noted because the role blends AI/ML platform engineering with traditional distributed systems infrastructure work, though Software Developers (15-1252) is clearly the primary fit given the emphasis on building and shipping production systems.
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