Lead Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Oracle
Nashville, TN
$96,300–$264,100from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level Site Reliability Engineer role at Oracle focused on defining and driving reliability strategy for large-scale, distributed, business-critical platforms. The position spans automation and platform engineering, observability, incident management, capacity planning, and resilience testing, while also providing technical leadership and mentorship across SRE, software, and platform engineering teams. Suits an experienced SRE or cloud infrastructure engineer comfortable writing production-quality code and influencing architecture decisions.
Senior level · Full-time
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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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The posting carries the internal level 'IC5', which at Oracle typically corresponds to a Staff or Principal individual-contributor band; however, the JD's scope — while broad and senior — does not clearly describe org-wide technical authority beyond a large team, so it is classified as Senior rather than Staff.
The cloud platform requirement names Oracle Cloud Infrastructure first but explicitly lists AWS, Azure, and GCP as equivalents — all are captured as alternatives on a single skill.
The degree (Bachelor's or advanced) is listed under Preferred Qualifications and explicitly allows 'equivalent practical experience', so no minimum degree is flagged as required.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated; the posting uses 'extensive' and 'demonstrated' without a numeric floor.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes production-quality software and builds automation/platform tooling (pointing to 15-1252), but a significant portion of the work is operating and maintaining infrastructure (pointing to 15-1244). The software-building emphasis — IaC, CI/CD pipelines, self-healing tooling, reusable platform components — tips the classification to 15-1252.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): chaos engineering.
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