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Sr. Principal Security Engineer

Oracle
Nashville, TN Full Time
POSTED ON 11/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/30/2026

The Oracle Cloud Security and Safety team is seeking dedicated security engineers looking to make their mark in a new security domain.  The team is committed to bridging the gap between operations and security, empowering the engineering and operations teams within Oracle to operate their services without fear of security impacting mistakes or malicious behavior. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is committed to constantly improving and securing our suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. We are committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on security engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult architecture, engineering, and process problems.  Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with the most secure cloud services. Our ideal candidate is a security engineer with expertise and passion in finding and improving areas of weakness, while developing new standards in the security and safe operation of distributed systems, multi-tenant services and large-scale infrastructures. If this is you, joining Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) will enable you to design and build innovative new security models & systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast and working on ambitious new initiatives. A security-focused engineer at any level can make significant technical and business impact 

Qualifications:

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: $120,100 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. 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.

Career Level - IC5


Responsibilities:

Responsibilities: 

  • Prototype, design, and implement security solutions for new and challenging problems 
  • Drive and champion security tool development (e.g. scanning tools) 
  • Consult software development teams in design and architecture of safe and secure systems through Threat Modeling and modeling exercises 
  • Champion and consult on secure development lifecycle practices 
  • Design and integrate verification and posture reporting mechanisms 
  • Define security configuration and implementation best practices 

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 Skills 

  • Experience scaling operational activities via Python, Bash, and other tools 
  • DevOps or SRE experience operating large, distributed, continuously deployed services 
  • Experience operating large, distributed, continuously deployed services 
  • Expertise in designing databases schemas in (NoSQL / SQL). 
  • Knowledge on bridging security engineering requirements into the software development life cycle. 
  • Security training and mentoring experience 
  • Experience with statistical/mathematical predictive modeling 
  • Experience with machine learning / artificial intelligence 
  • Experience designing resilient systems that support quick recovery 
  • Experience with container orchestration and management 
  • History of collaborating and integrating processes with software development teams, data scientists, business and other technical roles 
  • Experience with Java or Python development 

Salary : $120,100 - $251,600

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