Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle•Nashville, TN

3d•$79,200 - $209,500

About The Position

In this role, you will drive the architecture of distributed systems that power WAF features such as threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics. You will partner closely with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver secure, performant, and reliable services while helping define the long-term technical vision for OCI’s application security portfolio. 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.

Requirements

Architecture of distributed systems
WAF features such as threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics
Secure, performant, and reliable services
Long-term technical vision for OCI’s application security portfolio
Cloud-scale backend services
OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform
Highly available policy management, rule evaluation, traffic inspection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics services
Scalable distributed systems
Process and analyze high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic
Low latency and high reliability
Software architecture reviews
Design documentation
Code quality standards
Operational best practices
Security Engineering, Product Management, SRE, and OCI platform teams
Next-generation application security capabilities
Robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring
Service health and customer visibility
Automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle
CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code
Reliability, scalability, and operational readiness
Capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
Mentor engineers
Influence technical strategy across organizations
Raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform.
Design and evolve highly available policy management, rule evaluation, traffic inspection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics services.
Build scalable distributed systems that process and analyze high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and high reliability.
Drive engineering excellence through software architecture reviews, design documentation, code quality standards, and operational best practices.
Partner closely with Security Engineering, Product Management, SRE, and OCI platform teams to define and deliver next-generation application security capabilities.
Establish robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring to ensure service health and customer visibility.
Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Drive reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and help raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership.