Lead Principal Software Engineer - Secrets Management

Job Description 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. Qualifications 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, 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: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion Short term disability and long term disability Life insurance and AD&D Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts Pre-tax commuter and parking 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 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. 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