Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is one of the fastest-growing cloud platforms, and we are assembling a world-class team to build the next generation of security products. We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to drive the design and development of mission-critical systems that protect OCI customers at hyperscale. As a Principal Engineer in the Security Products Group, you will play a key leadership role in: Architecting and delivering complex, distributed systems with a focus on security, resiliency, and scalability. Driving strategic technical decisions and shaping the long-term vision for OCI's security offerings. Mentoring engineers, influencing cross-team engineering practices, and raising the technical bar across the organization. Leading design reviews, setting coding standards, and fostering a culture of operational excellence. What You'll Do: Lead design and development of major features and large-scale systems from concept to production. Set the direction for platform architecture and system design in areas such as identity, data protection, threat detection, and vulnerability management. Operate and improve high-scale services, driving initiatives to increase reliability, observability, and automation. Collaborate across teams and orgs to align architecture, resolve dependencies, and ensure delivery of high-impact security capabilities. What We're Looking For: Deep experience in building and operating distributed systems at scale. Proven ability to design and deliver complex features with cross-cutting impact. Hands-on experience with services operating across regions and subject to strict compliance and regulatory requirements. Strong coding skills and the ability to dive deep into technical details across the stack-from low-level systems internals to API design. A bias for simplicity, a passion for scale, and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. Why Security at OCI The OCI Security Products Group is on a mission to build the most secure cloud platform. We deliver a portfolio of cloud-native services that enable our customers to: Isolate workloads, encrypt data, and control access securely. Detect vulnerabilities and threats across applications, containers, and infrastructure. Remediate risks proactively, leveraging intelligence from CVEs, CIS benchmarks, and threat modeling. We are investing heavily in advanced security systems that detect, analyze, and block malicious activity in real time - empowering our customers to build and scale confidently on Oracle Cloud. Explore our work: Lead the design and development of large-scale, mission-critical security services within OCI, ensuring they are reliable, scalable, and secure by default. Define technical strategy and architecture for key areas such as identity, access control, data protection, threat detection, and vulnerability management. Drive end-to-end delivery of complex features - from ideation and design through development, testing, deployment, and operational support. Mentor and guide engineers across multiple teams, fostering technical growth, improving code quality, and raising the bar for design and execution. Champion engineering excellence by setting high standards for design, code, observability, automation, and operational readiness. Collaborate across functional teams (security, platform, compliance, product management) to align on strategy, resolve architectural challenges, and accelerate delivery. Continuously improve system reliability and performance through proactive observability, incident response, chaos engineering, and root cause analysis. Evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns to improve security posture, performance, and developer productivity. Contribute to the broader OCI engineering community through leadership in design reviews, architecture discussions, and cross-org initiatives. Career Level - IC4
