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Principal Security Engineer

Oracle
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Mar 2026
💰 $223,400/yr($106,300/yr$223,400/yr)

About the role

We're looking for hands-on security engineers with expertise and passion in solving difficult security problems in distributed systems, multi-tenant services and large-scale infrastructures. If this is you, Oracle Cloud Security can help you design and build innovative new systems from the ground up, implement and configure security solutions to prevent security issues, and work with best in class security products. 
 

Things you’ll do:

  • Prototype, design, and implement security solutions for new and challenging problems
  • Drive and champion security tool development (e.g. scanning tools)
  • Champion and consult on secure development lifecycle practices
  • Design and build security verification mechanisms
  • Define security configuration and implementation best practices

Must have Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in security engineering or related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience building automated security solutions
  • Strong security experience, particularly with focus in one of the following areas:
    • Defensive Security
    • Offensive Security
    • Service architecture and Design Patterns
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in a large cloud or Internet software company
  • Expertise in bridging security engineering requirements into software developers life cycle.
  • Experience scaling operational activities via Python, Bash, and other tools
  • Expertise in designing databases schemas in (NoSQL / SQL) and working with relational data.
  • Experience with statistical/mathematical predictive modeling
  • Experience with machine learning / artificial intelligence
  • Experience collaborating with software development teams, data scientists, business and other technical roles
  • Experience with Python, R, or Java development

Responsible for advanced planning, design and build of security systems, applications, environments and architectures; oversees the implementation of security systems, applications, environments and architectures and ensures compliance with information security standards and corporate security policies and procedures.
Provides technical advice and direction to support the design and development of secure architectures.
May participate in an incident management team, bringing advanced-level skills to respond to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks. Investigates purported intrusions and breaches, and oversees root cause analysis.  Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as Incident Commander of serious incidents. Develops new methods, and playbooks, as well as sophisticated scripts, applications, and tools, and trains others in their use.
May participate in an incident management team, responding to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks. Investigates purported intrusions and breaches, and oversees root cause analysis.  Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as incident commander of serious incidents. Participates in developing new methods, playbooks throughout Oracle.
Evaluates existing and proposed technical architectures for security risk, provides technical advice to support the design and development of secure architectures and recommends security controls to mitigate those risks. Evaluations of internal security architecture may include design assessment, risk assessment, and threat modeling.
Brings advanced-level skills to research, evaluate, track, and manage information security threats and vulnerabilities in situations where in-depth analysis of ambiguous information is required, and where computer programming/scripting knowledge is required.
Work with Senior management to develop and implement a multi-year security roadmap
Focus on operational and strategic level tasks, and provide counsel and guidance to the junior level security operations engineers in the department.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $106,300 to $223,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as wel

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