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Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle
USA
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Qualifications

  • 7–10+ years building production software systems, including experience developing large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design.
  • Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, TLS, reverse proxies, caching, load balancing, and web application architectures.
  • Experience building customer-facing platform services with strict requirements around availability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, performance optimization, code quality, and secure software development practices.
  • Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively across engineering, security, product, and operations organizations.
  • 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: $114,600 to $234,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to acco

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building or operating Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, Bot Management, CDN, Edge Computing, or related security products.
  • Knowledge of common web application attack vectors, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, credential abuse, automated attacks, and API threats.
  • Experience with rule engines, policy evaluation systems, threat detection platforms, or traffic inspection technologies.
  • Background building high-throughput analytics, telemetry, or event-processing pipelines for real-time security insights.
  • Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains.
  • Familiarity with modern security architectures, Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication.
  • Experience with compliance, audit readiness, and security-by-design development practices.
  • Contributions to open-source software, security tooling, or cloud infrastructure projects are a plus.
  • How you'll have impact
  • Deliver core WAF capabilities that protect OCI customers from application-layer attacks while maintaining performance and availability.
  • Launch customer-facing security features that provide visibility, protection, automation, and policy control at cloud scale.
  • Improve the scalability, reliability, and operational maturity of OCI's application security platform.
  • Raise engineering quality and technical standards through mentorship, architectural leadership, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ways of working
  • Security, privacy, and reliability by design with secure development practices embedded throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Data-driven decision making supported by clear metrics, SLOs, operational reviews, and measurable customer outcomes.
  • Collaborative engineering culture focused on design reviews, code reviews, technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, and application protection capabilities.
  • Design and evolve scalable policy management, rule evaluation, threat detection, bot mitigation, traffic inspection, and security analytics platforms with a focus on reliability, performance, and extensibility.
  • Build highly available distributed systems that inspect and process large volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and a seamless customer experience.
  • Drive the technical strategy for application security services, partnering with Security Engineering, Product Management, Edge Infrastructure, and Platform teams to deliver new capabilities.
  • Establish operational excellence through SLOs/SLAs, incident response processes, runbooks, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
  • Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, deployment automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and developer productivity tooling.

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