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As a Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Security Platform division, you will join a collaborative team to build and operate the Key Management Service. This foundational service manages the lifecycle of cryptographic keys to protect customer data across OCI services while ensuring high standards for security, scalability, availability, and compliance. You will design, implement, test, debug, and operate components including service APIs, backend workflows, distributed systems, and HSM integration. You will develop secure software for encryption-at-rest and participate in incident response and reliability improvements. The role requires proficiency in Java, C++, C, or Go, alongside a deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals to solve complex security-sensitive problems at production scale.
Design, implement, test, debug, and operate components of the OCI Key Management Service.
Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable software for KMS services and related infrastructure.
Contribute to features for key lifecycle management, cryptographic operations, and encryption-at-rest.
Troubleshoot production issues and participate in on-call support and incident response.
Perform reliability improvements and develop operational tooling for the KMS stack.
Write technical documents, design notes, runbooks, and operational guidance.
What we're looking for
Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of software development experience (preferred: distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, security services, or large-scale backend services).
Strong programming skills in Java, C++, C, Go, or a similar systems/backend programming language.
Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Strong ownership, communication skills, and ability to work effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.
C/C++
DPDK
Linux
Infrastructure as Code
Distributed Systems
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Plane
Performance Testing
Encryption
Telemetry
Device Drivers
High-Concurrency Systems
fault-injection
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure as Code
Java
C++
C#
Go
AWS
Oracle Cloud
Azure
Google Cloud
Microservices
Observability
fault-injection
Encryption
Networking
Data Structures
Algorithms
Operating Systems
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
C++
C#
Go
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Distributed Systems
Microservices
Observability
Fault-Injection Testing
Networking
Data Structures
Algorithms
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Java
Python
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
Kubernetes
Oracle Database
System Design
IAM
Distributed Systems
API Design
Data Modeling
Go
C#
Observability