Full-Time

Lead Principal Software Engineer

Secrets Management

Oracle

Oracle

10,001+ employees

Enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, databases provider

Compensation Overview

$135.2k - $306.4k/yr

+ Bonus + Equity + Compensation deferral

Nashville, TN, USA + 1 more

More locations: United States

In Person

Category
Cybersecurity (1)
Required Skills
Incident Response
Distributed Systems
Threat modeling
Cryptography
Observability
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • Deep experience designing and operating distributed backend services in production at meaningful scale.
  • Strong security engineering judgment across access control, encryption, identity, trust boundaries, key management, certificate lifecycle, and failure modes.
  • Experience building reliable APIs, automation, and developer-facing infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
  • Operational excellence in observability, incident response, reliability engineering, scalability, and safe production change management.
  • Ability to lead ambiguous technical programs, make durable architecture decisions, influence across teams, and mentor engineers.
  • Comfort working with application, infrastructure, identity, and security partners on high-trust, security-sensitive systems.
  • Practical experience with threat modeling, security reviews, hardening, and production risk reduction for sensitive-data systems.
  • Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, and networks.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build secure backend services that store, manage, rotate, and deliver secrets, keys, certificates, and related sensitive materials.
  • Improve key exchange mechanisms so software services can securely communicate, establish trust, and protect sensitive information in transit and at rest.
  • Make secret rotation safer and more automated, reducing service breakage, manual handling, and unsafe credential storage patterns.
  • Build reliable APIs, tooling, and workflows that help other engineering teams adopt secrets and key-management capabilities with less friction.
  • Improve availability, scalability, monitoring, alerting, and operational safety for security-critical production systems.
  • Lead threat modeling, security reviews, design hardening, and sensitive-data exposure analysis across service boundaries.
  • Partner with application, infrastructure, identity, and security teams to make secret management more consistent across the company.
  • Own production quality through incident response, debugging, operational improvements, resiliency work, and reduction of manual operations.
  • Lead complex projects independently, drive alignment across teams, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar for security-sensitive systems.
  • Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design, and develop software according to those specifications.
  • Perform professional software development tasks associated with developing, designing, and debugging software applications or operating systems.

Oracle provides enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, databases, and business applications for organizations. It offers cloud computing, storage, networking, and AI-enabled data management, plus Fusion Cloud Applications for ERP, HCM, supply chain, manufacturing, and customer experience, with options for hybrid and on-premises deployment. The company differentiates itself with an integrated stack that spans databases, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise apps, built on a history of acquisitions and a broad customer base. Its goal is to help organizations run operations efficiently, scale data and processes, and pursue digital transformation through an end-to-end platform.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

1977

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Oracle's Q1 FY2026 revenue rose 30% to $19.3 billion, signaling strong demand.
  • OpenAI-related demand and Stargate data-center buildouts support OCI growth through 2027.
  • Oracle raised FY2027 targets to $90 billion, implying management sees sustained acceleration.

What critics are saying

  • EU regulators started reviewing Oracle licensing on September 1, 2026; SAP-like remedies follow.
  • Fiscal 2026 free cash flow was negative $23.7 billion after $55.7 billion capex.
  • Oracle's dependency on massive AI buildouts and OpenAI-style contracts creates existential financing pressure by 2027.

What makes Oracle unique

  • Oracle's 2026 RPO hit $638 billion, dwarfing annual revenue and rivals' backlogs.
  • Oracle Database and OCI combine software lock-in with cloud migration paths across enterprises.
  • Oracle's March 2026 AI Database innovations strengthen vector and agentic workloads on-premises and cloud.

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Benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

1%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
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Sep 10th, 2026
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Oracle reported fiscal first-quarter earnings of $1.92 per share, surpassing analyst estimates. The enterprise software company's sales climbed 30% to $19.3 billion during the quarter. The strong results demonstrate continued growth for Oracle as businesses invest in cloud infrastructure and database services. The earnings beat suggests the company is maintaining momentum in its cloud computing business. Oracle's performance comes amid ongoing competition in the enterprise software and cloud services market. The 30% revenue increase represents significant year-over-year growth for the tech giant.

Yahoo Finance
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Oracle reports earnings today with shares down 18% year-to-date and trading around $159, roughly 52% below last September's post-earnings close of $328. The stock surged 36% in a single session following last year's report. Despite the decline, fundamentals remain strong. The company guided first-quarter revenue growth of 27% to 29% and cloud revenue growth of 58% to 64%. Remaining performance obligations reached $638 billion, up 363% year-over-year, with $75 billion tied to GPU arrangements. Options traders are selling calls at the $150 strike, and implied volatility sits at 73, among the highest in the S&P 500. However, 36 analysts rate the stock a buy with a $241 target, and consensus expects earnings of $1.74 per share on $19.13 billion revenue.

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Yahoo Finance
Sep 9th, 2026
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Oracle and Adobe report quarterly earnings on Thursday 10 September, offering different angles on AI investment opportunities. Oracle expects fiscal Q1 revenue of roughly $19.13 billion, up 27%-29% year-over-year, driven by cloud infrastructure demand. Total cloud revenue is forecast to surge 58%-64%, with remaining performance obligations soaring 363% to $638 billion due to large-scale AI contracts. Adobe anticipates fiscal Q3 revenue of $6.69 billion, representing approximately 12% growth. The company recently reported AI-first annual recurring revenue tripled year-over-year to over $500 million, with record Q2 revenue of $6.61 billion. Oracle benefits from AI-related cloud infrastructure demand, whilst Adobe embeds generative AI throughout its creative, document, and marketing platforms. Investors will watch whether Oracle's growth justifies its premium valuation or Adobe's discounted stock offers better value.

Yahoo Finance
Sep 9th, 2026
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