Key skills
Backend systems developmentJava/Python/C++/Rust/GoSystems design skillsDevOps at scaleInfrastructure as CodeDDoS/network securityNetworking knowledgeObservability experienceAnycast routingTraffic steeringResilience engineeringContainerization/orchestrationZero trust principlesPythonJavaC++CGoRustAnalyticsTerraformOracleCI/CDCommunicationNetwork SecurityZero Trust
About this role
Oracle is a leading company in data, infrastructure, and applications, seeking an individual contributor to join their OCI team. The role involves designing and delivering cloud-scale DDoS protection, building high-performance detection and mitigation systems, and automating operations end-to-end.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build low-latency backend services for DDoS detection, classification, and mitigation across OCI’s global edge
- Implement scalable data and control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with strong fault isolation and resiliency
- Develop traffic engineering capabilities (anycast, BGP signaling, routing policy) and integrate with OCI networking, DNS, and edge services
- Own operational readiness: SLOs/SLAs, on-call health, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident improvements
- Build automation-first workflows: CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, canary/blue-green releases, and infrastructure-as-code
- Create robust observability (metrics, logs, traces) and capacity/scale modeling for high-throughput, high-availability systems
- Partner with product, SRE, and network engineering to deliver roadmap features from concept to GA with security-by-design
- Contribute to threat modeling, architecture reviews, and compliance/audit readiness for Tier 0 services
Requirements:
- 6+ years building production backend systems (at least 3 years in high-scale or low-latency environments)
- Proficiency in one or more: Java/Python/C++/Rust/Go
- Strong preference for Java for control-plane/services
- Strong systems design skills: concurrency, memory management, performance tuning, API design, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience with DevOps at scale: CI/CD, automated testing, canarying, rollout/rollback, and configuration management
- IaC expertise (e.g., Terraform) and solid cloud infrastructure fundamentals
- Familiarity with DDoS or network security services and related attack/defense patterns
- Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, BGP fundamentals; DNS/DHCP understanding
- Observability experience (metrics, tracing, alerting) and operational excellence mindset
- Experience with anycast routing, traffic steering, and multi-region service readiness
- Exposure to SDN, programmable data planes, or hardware mitigation platforms
- Advanced telemetry/streaming pipelines for near-real-time detection (e.g., high-rate packet/flow analytics)
- Background in resilience engineering, chaos testing, and capacity planning at hyperscale
- Containerization/orchestration experience and secure service-to-service communication (mTLS, policy)
- Familiarity with zero trust principles, segmentation, and modern security architectures