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Oracle Principal Security Engineer in Topeka, Kansas
Job Description
Are you interested in building large-scale distributed security systems and tools for the cloud? Do you love the idea of working in an environment with the excitement of a start-up, but the financial backing of a Fortune 100 company? This role offers huge upside potential, high visibility, and fast career growth without the risks of a typical start-up. We are growing fast, maturing, and working on results-oriented initiatives. A security-focused leader can have significant technical and business impact. This is a unique opportunity to work with smart people to solve complex problems in distributed systems, security, and multi-tenant Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) operating at massive scale.
The biggest challenges for the team is the dynamic and fast growth of the business, driving us to improve our systems, tools, and automation to scale to our security expertise several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today. We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution. We hope you like working at scale as much as we do because Oracle has no shortage of it! Craft the future of one of the largest clouds on earth with us!
Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are continually learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. You can learn more about us by visiting https://cloud.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure .
We don't fit people into predefined roles. We bring together the right people who enhance team capability and build roles around each team member's skills and interests.
Our ideal candidate is a hardworking and hands-on engineer who cares about security and improves their knowledge every day. We're looking for hands-on cloud hackers with expertise and passion in identifying and exploiting complex security problems in distributed, multi-tenant services and infrastructure. We operate distributed systems at a high scale, worldwide. These are the foundations of our cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with a best-in-class and ever-expanding set of cloud-based services.
A security-focused engineer at any level can have significant technical and business impact. Come shape the future of one of the largest clouds on earth with us.
Career Level - IC4
Responsibilities
Some of our people have qualifications like the ones listed below. Our ideal candidate is passionate about security and furthering their knowledge every day. You enjoy diving into complex source code audits to reveal subtle security vulnerabilities, writing new tools such as fuzzers in languages such as Python, Go or Java, C/C++, and Ruby; tearing apart an undocumented file format or network protocol and coming up with novel techniques to solve unique and interesting security problems. We hope you like working at scale as much as we do much as we do, because Oracle has no shortage of it. You'll review new services, including their integration points with existing services. You'll also guide security projects beyond the scope of performing assessment work: identifying and disclosing vulnerabilities to 3rd party vendor or design of complex systems and services that improve quantity or quality of offensive security output.
5 -10 years of experience in vulnerability discovery / security engineering / application security
3 - 10 years of experience in security architecture assessment and security standards development
Technical writing, executive communication, and security evangelism
Experience working in a large cloud, service provider, or software company
Demonstrated history of vulnerability discovery (CVEs, etc.) and rapid PoC development
Experience with multiple classes of security bugs
Evidence of participation in the Security community via contribution to open source projects, tool development, blog writing, or responsibly-published vulnerabilities.
Ability to effectively assess and communicate risks and appropriate levels of urgency to management and engineering staff
Ability to succeed via collaboration and working between internal and external organizations and individuals.
Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills
Linux/POSIX OS Internals.
Intermediate knowledge of 1 programming language and ability to read 2-3 high level programming language such as Java
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field or equivalent work experience.
Minimum Qualifications
Must have at least 2 – 5 years’ experience in 3 or more of the following areas:
Penetration testing
Security architecture
Standards development for diverse software architectures
Technical writing for security
Reverse engineering
Log analysis automation
Modification of assessment tools
Software development and/or advanced scripting
Security data science
Previous roles with a security focus: security-focused software architecture, vulnerability discovery, SecDevOps, software development oversight, etc.
Intermediate Linux knowledge
Functional knowledge of 1 programming/scripting language and ability to read 2 low/high level programming language
Technical writing experience
At least 1 relevant and advanced industry certification: OSCP, OSCE, or equivalent demonstrated work experience
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: $109,200 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 well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
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
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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