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Senior Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

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Nashville, TNFull-time$126–264K/yrPosted todayStill listed today

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Compensation
$126–264K/yr
Location
Nashville, TN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services for Oracle’s Access Governance platform, primarily using Java. The role supports large volumes of identity, access, and governance data and includes improving performance, reliability, security, and customer experience. As a technical leader, the engineer will mentor colleagues, lead design and code reviews, and help strengthen engineering standards.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Java (Programming Language), nice to haveSoftware Development, nice to haveAPI Development, nice to haveDatabase Administration, nice to haveCloud Applications, nice to haveData Processing, nice to haveService Management, nice to haveSecurity Policies, nice to haveBackend Services, nice to haveDatabase Optimization, nice to haveService Orchestration, nice to haveData Pipelines, nice to haveFault-Tolerant Systems, nice to haveMonitoring, nice to haveEncryption, nice to haveAccess Controls, nice to haveAuthorization, nice to haveTenant Isolation, nice to haveTechnical Leadership, nice to haveMentoring, nice to haveCode Reviews, nice to haveRoot Cause Analysis, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and debug software for the Access Governance platform, including backend services, APIs, databases, data processing workflows, integrations, and cloud applications. Our services are primarily developed in Java. Build scalable software components that process large volumes of identity, access, and governance data. Improve application performance, optimize database access, strengthen service reliability, and ensure secure handling of customer data. Develop new product features, enhance existing application behavior, and resolve complex software issues across services, APIs, and data flows. Use customer feedback, telemetry, logs, and metrics to improve product quality and customer experience. 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. Senior Software Engineer that leads the design of highly reliability and scalable services that comprise our SaaS offering for Access Governance. The service is critical to our overall security offering for access management. 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: $126,200 to $264,100 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:

  1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
  2. Short term disability and long term disability
  3. Life insurance and AD&D
  4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
  5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
  6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
  7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
  8. 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.
  9. 11 paid holidays
  10. 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.
  11. Paid parental leave
  12. Adoption assistance
  13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  14. Financial planning and group legal
  15. 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. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment. As a Senior Software Engineer for the Access Governance platform, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services primarily in Java that support large volumes of identity, access, and governance data. You will work on core product capabilities such as APIs, data processing workflows, service orchestration, storage and retrieval, authorization, and system integrations. You will be responsible for building reliable and high-performance software that can support enterprise-scale customer workloads. This includes improving application performance, optimizing database access patterns, designing efficient data pipelines, and ensuring the platform can scale smoothly as customer usage grows. You will help build fault-tolerant services that support high availability, safe upgrades, rollbacks, failover, and zero-downtime maintenance. You will also contribute to reliability features such as rate limiting, throttling, traffic management, and graceful handling of service disruptions. You will work closely with customers and customer-facing teams to understand real-world usage, pain points, and product expectations. You will use this feedback to improve product reliability, usability, performance, and overall customer experience. When complex issues arise, you will help analyze the root cause, identify long-term solutions, and ensure the learnings are reflected back into the product. You will build and improve monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and alerts so the team can better understand system health, customer experience, and product behavior at scale. These insights will help guide engineering decisions and continuous product improvements. You will implement secure software design practices across the platform, including encryption, access controls, authorization, tenant isolation, and protection of sensitive identity and access data. You will work closely with security and compliance teams to ensure the product meets enterprise standards. As a technical leader, you will mentor junior engineers, lead design and code reviews, share best practices, and help improve the team’s engineering standards. You will also participate in candidate evaluations and contribute to building a strong software engineering team.

How this job compares

Set against the 38,553 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 14, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–264K/yr
  • Tennessee median$107–210K/yr429 salary ranges
  • US median$132–214K/yr31,333 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $195K, is 25% above the Tennessee median midpoint ($157K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in Tennessee.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 519 open Software Engineer jobs in Tennessee and 38,553 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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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 (31,873 postings).
Education
11,780 of the 38,553 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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