Oracle · 2 weeks ago
Principal Backend Developer (DDOS)
Nashville, TN
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$97K/yr - $223K/yr
7+ years expOracle is a world leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Engineer to join OCI’s Edge Security team. The role involves architecting and delivering cloud-scale DDoS protection, leading design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, and driving automation and operational excellence.
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Responsibilities
Lead architecture and delivery of low-latency backend services for DDoS detection, classification, and mitigation
Define and evolve scalable data/control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with strong fault isolation, resiliency, and compliance-by-design
Own traffic engineering strategy (anycast, BGP policy, routing integration) and partner with networking, DNS, and edge platform teams
Set operational standards: SLOs/SLAs, on-call health, incident response (including incident commander duties), runbooks, and post-incident learning
Drive automation at scale: CI/CD strategy, test frameworks, progressive delivery (canary/blue-green), and infrastructure-as-code
Establish robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) and capacity/scale models for high-throughput, highly available services
Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and audit readiness for Tier 0 services; ensure security and privacy are embedded through the lifecycle
Mentor engineers, influence cross-org roadmaps, and collaborate with Product, SRE, and Network Engineering from concept to GA
Qualification
Required
7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments
Proficiency in one or more: Java/Python/C++/Rust/Go (strong preference for Java for control-plane/services)
Deep systems design expertise: concurrency, memory management, performance tuning, API design, consistency models, and distributed systems fundamentals
Proven DevOps leadership at scale: CI/CD, automated testing, canarying, rollout/rollback, configuration management
Strong IaC experience (e.g., Terraform) and solid cloud infrastructure fundamentals
Domain experience in DDoS or network security services and common attack/defense patterns
Advanced networking knowledge: TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, routing policy; DNS fundamentals
Demonstrated operational excellence and observability practices (metrics, tracing, alerting)
Preferred
Expertise with anycast routing, global traffic steering, and multi-region service readiness
Experience with SDN, programmable data planes, or hardware mitigation platforms
Building high-rate telemetry/streaming pipelines for near-real-time detection (packet/flow analytics)
Background in resilience engineering, chaos testing, disaster recovery, and capacity planning at hyperscale
Containerization/orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and secure service-to-service communication (mTLS, policy enforcement)
Familiarity with zero trust, segmentation, and modern security architectures; exposure to compliance frameworks and audit preparation
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
Company
Oracle
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