Principal Security Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$106,300–$234,600from the description
Aug 12, 2026
Nashville, TN
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This senior individual-contributor role at Oracle focuses on designing, integrating, and supporting enterprise physical security systems — including access control, video surveillance, biometric authentication, cabinet security, and electronic key management — across data centers and critical facilities. The work spans the full lifecycle from architecture and standards development through deployment, troubleshooting, and vendor oversight, with close collaboration across IT, Cybersecurity, and Facilities teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Full-time
“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
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $119,144 (middle half $81,115–$160,963). 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 Aug 15, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; no CBSA or state could be determined. The compensation range is listed as US-wide.
The title carries no seniority level word; 'senior individual-contributor' appears only in the body description, not the title — advertised seniority is therefore Unspecified, though the scope and 5+ year requirement clearly support a Senior classification.
SOC classification is genuinely ambiguous. The role's primary work is engineering and administering physical security technology systems (access control, video, biometrics), which sits closest to 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) as a physical-security systems engineer. 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) is a plausible runner-up given the cybersecurity collaboration and hardening duties, but the day-to-day work is systems integration and administration rather than security analysis.
The Qualifications section requires 'Lenel Access Control AND one or more of: Alcatraz AI, Digitus, Traka, or Milestone.' Alcatraz AI, Digitus, Traka, and Milestone are therefore marked preferred, with the four listed as alternatives to each other, since only one is required alongside Lenel.
ChatGPT/Codex are explicitly required in the Qualifications section ('Ability to use ChatGPT, Codex, or similar AI tools productively'); Codex is placed in alternatives as the named interchangeable option.
Scripting and automation appear only under Preferred Qualifications and are listed there as distinct from the SQL and AI-tool requirements already captured.
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