Senior Principal Software Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, WA
$135,200–$306,400from the description
Jul 17, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on designing and building a new high-performance key-value store service within Oracle's cloud infrastructure platform. Day-to-day work spans low-level systems and data-plane development — including distributed consistency, storage engines, and transaction management — through to architectural documentation, code reviews, and mentoring junior engineers. Suits experienced engineers with deep C/C++ and distributed systems backgrounds.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). 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 (5)
The posting carries the internal level 'IC5', which at Oracle corresponds to a Staff/Principal individual contributor — this aligns with the role's described scope of providing strategic technical guidance to senior leadership and driving org-wide goals, supporting a Staff seniority classification despite no explicit seniority word in the title.
C++ is stated as a hard requirement ('Strong experience of C/C++'); Rust is framed as an openness ('open to work on Rust'), so it is captured as an alternative rather than a separate preferred skill.
The distributed systems technologies (WAL, B-tree/LSM, Raft/Paxos, MVCC, sharding, distributed transactions) are listed under 'Working experience with some of the following technologies' — the word 'some' makes these collectively preferred rather than individually required gates.
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the CBSA fields are left blank accordingly. The compensation range is explicitly US-specific.
The role is eligible for bonus and equity in addition to the stated base salary range.
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