Principal Platform Software Engineer at Oracle
Raleigh, NC
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Jul 22, 2026
Raleigh, NC
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level engineering role on a globally distributed cloud operations team focused on detecting and resolving large-scale service incidents. Day-to-day work spans major incident command, automation of operational processes, and defining the technical architecture of distributed systems — with a secondary focus on partnering with development teams to shape service reliability and availability. Suits experienced engineers with a background in public cloud operations and software development.
Senior level · 7+ years · 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 21 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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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).
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 role is titled 'Principal Software Development Engineer' but the actual requirements (7+ years experience, standard cloud ops and SWE skills) align more with a Senior-level scope. The 'Principal' title at Oracle often reflects a leveling band rather than org-wide technical authority.
The role sits at the intersection of software development and cloud operations/SRE — it builds automation and incident management tooling (pointing to 15-1252) but also has a strong operational/incident-response mandate (pointing to 15-1244). 15-1252 was chosen because the JD explicitly emphasizes delivering automation, defining technical architecture, and engineering new capabilities.
The minimum experience requirement is stated as 7 years with a Bachelor's degree (or 11 years without a degree). 7 years is used as the overall years minimum as the most common path.
Degree requirement is set to None because the JD explicitly accepts equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree ('11 years of experience in software development OR Bachelor's … AND 7 years').
Infrastructure automation tools (Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform) are listed under 'Familiarity with' — treated as preferred. They are grouped as alternatives since the JD presents them as a set of interchangeable options.
Programming/scripting languages (SQL, C/C++, JavaScript) appear in the 'Job Skills' section with a 6-year coding experience requirement; they are listed as alternatives to one another as the JD presents them as examples.
AI tools and agentic experience is explicitly called 'preferred' in the JD.
Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) is stated as a must-have ('Must have public cloud operations experience'); the named platforms are treated as alternatives since any one qualifies.
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