Oracle

Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle
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USA (city not specified)Staff+
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Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services for OCI’s WAF, API Security, and application protection capabilities.
  • Design policy management, rule evaluation, threat detection, bot mitigation, traffic inspection, and security analytics platforms.
  • Build highly available distributed systems that process large volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic with low latency.
  • Drive technical strategy and architecture decisions across security, edge infrastructure, platform, product, and operations teams.
  • Establish observability and operational excellence through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, incident response, runbooks, and root cause analysis.
  • Lead CI/CD, testing, deployment automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and developer productivity initiatives.
  • Mentor engineers and raise engineering quality through architecture reviews, design documentation, code reviews, and technical leadership.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years of experience building production software systems, including large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more of Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, 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 availability, performance, and operational requirements.
  • Experience with cloud-native technologies, containers, Kubernetes, automated testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture across multiple engineering teams.
  • Preferred experience with WAF, API Security, Bot Management, CDN, Edge Computing, rule engines, policy systems, threat detection, traffic inspection, and real-time analytics pipelines.
  • Preferred knowledge of OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, credential abuse, automated attacks, API threats, Zero Trust, identity and access management, secure service communication, compliance, and audit readiness.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across engineering, security, product, and operations organizations.

Benefits

  • Oracle offers medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter and parking benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial planning, group legal benefits, and voluntary insurance benefits.
  • The listed U.S. hiring range is specific to stated locations, and the role may include bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
  • U.S.-based employees must complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, subject to legally available accommodations.

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About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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