Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle
Oklahoma City, OK
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Jul 27, 2026
Oklahoma City, OK
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Networking team, focused on designing and building large-scale DDoS mitigation and Web Application Firewall (WAF) services. The work involves architecting distributed systems for L4/L7 network security, driving technical direction across teams, and mentoring engineers — suited to a seasoned systems engineer with deep distributed-systems and networking/security experience.
Senior level · 11+ 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.
Posted 11 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 title 'Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer' is advertised at the Principal level, but the actual requirements (11–15 years of software development experience, no explicit org-wide technical authority scope) are consistent with a Senior individual contributor, so seniority is set to Senior.
No work location is specified in the posting; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role appears to be US-based given Oracle's headquarters and the US-specific EEO/accommodation language, but no city or region is stated.
The degree requirement is set to None because the posting explicitly offers a 15-year-experience-only path with no degree required.
The minimum total experience is derived from the lowest qualifying combination in the 'Minimum Job Qualifications' section: a Bachelor's degree plus 11 years of software development experience (or 15 years with no degree).
The 'Job Skills' section lists testing and automation (10 years) and distributed systems (4 years) as required minimums; these are role-level experience gates rather than named technologies, so they are captured in the overall years minimum (using the highest role-level gate of 11 years) rather than as individual skill entries.
Programming language requirement lists Go, Java, C++, and Python as interchangeable options ('one or more major languages such as…'); Go is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Cloud platform experience (5 years) is listed under required 'Job Skills' with OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP named as examples; OCI is the primary platform given the role context, with the others as alternatives.
DDoS mitigation, WAF, network security, automation, monitoring, and open source appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' or narrative context and are marked as preferred accordingly.
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