Principal Software Developer Engineer at Oracle
Austin, TX
$114,600–$234,600from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Austin, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining application services for government and sovereign cloud environments with strict security requirements. Day-to-day work spans feature development, API and service integration, code review, troubleshooting distributed systems, and mentoring engineers. The role suits an experienced software engineer comfortable working in classified or highly regulated infrastructure settings.
Senior level · 7+ years · National · TS/SCI clearance · 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 4 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). 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 TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is an explicit hard gate at hire — candidates must hold an active clearance, not merely be able to obtain one.
The experience requirement is tiered by degree: 11 years with no degree, 7 years with a Bachelor's, 5 years with a Master's, or 3 years with a Doctorate. Because equivalent experience is accepted in lieu of a degree, the degree requirement is set to None; the overall years minimum reflects the lowest gated threshold (7 years, with a Bachelor's).
No specific location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the role is likely tied to a cleared facility but no city or CBSA is identified.
Programming/scripting languages and databases are required with specific year thresholds but no specific language or database product is named in the requirements section, so they are captured generically as hard gates.
RESTful APIs, microservices, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, and observability all appear exclusively under Preferred Qualifications and are marked accordingly.
The advertised title is 'Principal' but the actual scope — leading a workstream, mentoring engineers, contributing to architecture — aligns with a Senior individual contributor rather than a true org-wide Principal authority. Seniority is assessed as Senior.
The wide compensation band ($114,600–$234,600/yr) is noted by Oracle as reflecting variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and locations.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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