Full-Time

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Secrets Managment

Oracle

Oracle

10,001+ employees

Enterprise software and cloud computing provider

Compensation Overview

$135.2k - $306.4k/yr

+ Bonus + Equity + Compensation Deferral

Nashville, TN, USA

In Person

On-site role in Nashville, Tennessee.

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
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.
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.
  • Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

Oracle provides enterprise software and cloud services, including database management, middleware, applications, and developer tools. Its core product is the Oracle Database, a relational database that stores and retrieves data using SQL; customers can run it on premises or in the Oracle Cloud, and they can use accompanying tools for data analytics, security, and integration. Oracle also offers a broad suite of applications (like ERP, HR, and health IT) and a cloud platform to build, deploy, and manage software. The company differentiates itself through a long history and large, integrated portfolio that connects database technology with applications, middleware, hardware, and cloud services, plus a track record of major acquisitions that broaden its scope. Its goal is to help organizations store, manage, and analyze data at scale, automate business processes, and run software in a unified, multi-environment cloud and on-premises setup.

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 fiscal 2026 revenue rose 21% to $19.2 billion, driven by OCI growth.
  • Minor Hotels and CACI expanded Oracle deployments on August 3-4, 2026.
  • Oracle plans AMD MI450 superclusters starting Q3 2026, strengthening its AI infrastructure moat.

What critics are saying

  • Oracle cut 21,000 jobs by May 2026 while paying $1.8 billion severance.
  • Oracle burned $23.7 billion free cash flow in FY2026 and targets $70 billion capex.
  • Oracle's OpenAI-heavy backlog concentrates existential counterparty risk inside a single customer relationship.

What makes Oracle unique

  • Oracle's July 2026 OCI backlog reached $638 billion, dwarfing annual revenue.
  • Oracle integrates OCI, Fusion, and OpenAI Marketplace billing across one enterprise stack.
  • Oracle's August 11, 2026 Quantinuum deal adds quantum access inside OCI AI data centers.

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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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Aug 11th, 2026
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Yahoo Finance
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