
Lead Principal Software Engineer - Secrets Management
Cape Saint Claire, MDJob$135–306K/yrPosted 3mo agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Oracle is hiring a Lead Principal Software Engineer - Secrets Management. Oracle seeks a Lead Principal Software Engineer to design and build secure backend services for secret management, improve key exchange, automate rotation, and enhance availability, scalability, and operational safety of security‑critical production systems.
Key focus areas include Design and build secure backend services for secret management., Improve key exchange mechanisms for secure communication., and Automate secret rotation to reduce manual handling..
Successful candidates bring Deep Experience Designing And Operating Distributed Backend Services. Important skills include Design Backend Services, Build Backend Services, Secure Backend Services, Improve Key Exchange Mechanisms, Automated Secret Rotation, and Build Reliable APIs.
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Full job description
Job Description
Responsibilities
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Design and build secure backend services that store, manage, rotate, and deliver secrets, keys, certificates, and related sensitive materials.
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Improve key exchange mechanisms so software services can securely communicate, establish trust, and protect sensitive information in transit and at rest.
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Make secret rotation safer and more automated, reducing service breakage, manual handling, and unsafe credential storage patterns.
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Build reliable APIs, tooling, and workflows that help other engineering teams adopt secrets and key-management capabilities with less friction.
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Improve availability, scalability, monitoring, alerting, and operational safety for security-critical production systems.
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Lead threat modeling, security reviews, design hardening, and sensitive-data exposure analysis across service boundaries.
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Partner with application, infrastructure, identity, and security teams to make secret management more consistent across the company.
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Own production quality through incident response, debugging, operational improvements, resiliency work, and reduction of manual operations.
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Lead complex projects independently, drive alignment across teams, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar for security-sensitive systems.
Qualifications
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Deep experience designing and operating distributed backend services in production at meaningful scale.
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Strong security engineering judgment across access control, encryption, identity, trust boundaries, key management, certificate lifecycle, and failure modes.
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Experience building reliable APIs, automation, and developer-facing infrastructure used by multiple engineering teams.
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Operational excellence in observability, incident response, reliability engineering, scalability, and safe production change management.
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Ability to lead ambiguous technical programs, make durable architecture decisions, influence across teams, and mentor engineers.
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Comfort working with application, infrastructure, identity, and security partners on high-trust, security-sensitive systems.
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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, networks etc.
Responsibilities
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $135,200 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
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Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
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Short term disability and long term disability
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Life insurance and AD&D
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Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
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Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
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Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
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401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
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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.
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11 paid holidays
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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.
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Paid parental leave
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Adoption assistance
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Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Financial planning and group legal
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Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - IC5
About Us
Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.
True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.
We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 41,256 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$135–306K/yr
- Maryland median$120–209K/yr1,002 salary ranges
- US median$135–217K/yr32,647 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $221K, is 35% above the Maryland median midpoint ($164K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,237 open Software Engineer jobs in Maryland and 41,256 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Maryland
- Leidos103 open
- Oracle (this employer)90 open
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- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (33,425 postings).
- Education
- 15,161 of the 41,256 open Software Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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