Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Oracle

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Work type: On-site
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Salary: $114,600–$234,600 / yr
Posted: 37 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday

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As a Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer on the Edge Security team, you will lead the architecture and development of high-availability, cloud-scale services for the Web Application Firewall platform. You will build distributed systems to manage threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics while processing high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic with low latency. The role involves designing policy management tools, establishing robust observability through metrics and tracing, and leading automation initiatives using CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code. You will utilize technologies including Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust within a cloud-native environment involving containers and Kubernetes. Your work focuses on solving critical web-based security threats by providing automated enforcement and advanced traffic inspection across global infrastructure to protect customer applications from various attack vectors like those in the OWASP Top 10.

Skills

WAF Distributed Systems Java Go Python C++ Rust Kubernetes CI/CD Infrastructure-as-Code REST APIs HTTP/HTTPS TLS Security Analytics Edge Computing Zero Trust Identity and Access Management

What you'll do

Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services for the OCI Web Application Firewall platform.
Design and evolve features for policy management, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, and API protection.
Build distributed systems to process high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic with low latency and high reliability.
Establish robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and performance monitoring.
Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle including CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code.
Drive reliability and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, and root cause analysis.
Mentor engineers and influence technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.

What we're looking for

7–10+ years of experience building production software systems and large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments.
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 for availability, performance, and operational excellence.
Experience with cloud-native technologies including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks.
Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems.
Experience with WAF, API Security, Bot Management, CDN, or Edge Computing products (preferred).