Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, WA
$146,300–$306,400from the description
Aug 12, 2026
Seattle, WA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor architect role at Oracle focused on designing and operating large-scale physical security platforms — covering access control, video management, credentialing, and alarm monitoring — running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The role involves setting reliability and security standards, mentoring engineering teams, and driving infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment strategies across cloud and edge environments. It suits a seasoned distributed-systems architect with deep cloud-native and security engineering experience.
Staff level · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Staff.
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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.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 13, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting carries Oracle's internal career level 'IC5', which maps to a Principal/Distinguished individual contributor — hence the advertised seniority reads as Principal. However, the actual scope (cross-org mentoring, setting standards across teams, no explicit org-wide technical authority) is more consistent with a Staff-level role, so seniority is set to Staff.
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) because the primary day-to-day work is architecting and building cloud-native platforms and pipelines. Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) is a plausible alternative given the mentoring and cross-org influence described, but the role is explicitly an IC (IC5) with no direct-report or budget ownership language.
No specific location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the compensation range is described as US-wide. No CBSA could be determined.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience', which is treated as no hard degree gate.
ONVIF, OSDP, and RTSP are listed together under Preferred Qualifications as interchangeable physical security protocol examples; they are captured as preferred skills with cross-references in alternatives.
No total years of experience figure is stated in the posting.
Messaging/streaming technologies and databases are mentioned as required experience but name no specific products, so they are omitted per the no-generic-concepts rule.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): zero-trust architecture.
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