Software Developer 4 at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level backend engineering role focused on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Web Application Firewall platform. The work centers on architecting and building distributed, cloud-scale services for traffic inspection, threat detection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security policy management across a global infrastructure. The position suits an experienced engineer comfortable leading technical strategy, mentoring peers, and driving operational maturity in high-throughput, availability-critical environments.
Senior level · 7+ years · National · 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
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 (6)
No specific location is listed in the posting beyond 'US'; the compensation range is stated as US-wide. No CBSA or state could be determined.
The title is 'Principal Software Engineer' (IC4 in Oracle's leveling), but the requirements — 7–10+ years, strong individual technical ownership, no explicit people-management scope — are consistent with a Senior individual contributor. The Principal the level advertised in the title reflects the title; the Senior seniority reflects the actual scope.
The language requirement lists Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust as interchangeable options; Java is used as the primary with the others captured as alternatives.
Skills such as 'distributed systems design', 'observability', 'Infrastructure-as-Code', and 'REST' are named as concrete technical domains in the required qualifications section and are retained; purely soft or methodological phrases (mentoring, communication, design patterns) were omitted per extraction rules.
All preferred qualifications (WAF/API Security experience, OWASP Top 10, rule engines, event-processing pipelines, Zero Trust, compliance, open-source contributions) are listed under the explicit 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are marked accordingly.
The posting mentions eligibility for bonus and equity in addition to the stated salary range.
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