Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer
Oracle · Tallahassee, FL
$146,300–$306,400from the description
Jul 6, 2026
Tallahassee, FL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on architecting and mentoring around large-scale distributed systems, with emphasis on fault tolerance, resilience patterns, and formal correctness verification. Day-to-day work spans defining scalability and reliability standards, leading incident response and root-cause investigations, building enterprise automation and security controls, and guiding cross-functional teams on complex production issues. Suits a deep technical expert comfortable operating at an organizational thought-leadership level.
Principal level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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 (8)
The job title is not provided in the posting; the career level is listed as 'IC5', which at Oracle corresponds to a Principal/Distinguished individual contributor — the scope (org-wide standards, mentoring teams, thought leadership, conference presentations) firmly supports Principal seniority.
The role is an IC5 individual contributor, not a people manager, despite significant cross-functional influence and mentoring responsibilities — 15-1252 (Software Developers) is preferred over 11-3021 (Computer and Information Systems Managers). The alt SOC is noted because the scope of influence and budget/timeline ownership blurs the line.
No specific location is stated beyond 'US'; the compensation range is US-wide. Remote status is unspecified in the posting — marked non-remote as a conservative default.
No specific technology stack (languages, cloud provider, databases) is named beyond IaC and TLA+; skills are extracted from the explicit functional requirements described throughout the posting.
TLA+ is explicitly called out by name as a formal verification technique, making it a named tool requirement rather than a generic methodology.
'Distributed state management tools' is referenced but no specific product is named; captured as a skill category rather than a named tool.
Bonus and equity eligibility are mentioned but no figures are provided, so only the base salary range is captured.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): distributed state management, fault-tolerant system design, SLO/SLA design, multi-tenant security architecture.
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