DDOS Software Engineer
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Overview
Join OCI’s Edge Security team to help build and operate cloud-scale DDoS protection. You’ll contribute to high-performance detection and mitigation services, automate operational workflows, and learn how we deliver secure, reliable customer-facing capabilities at global scale.
What you’ll do
- Implement and enhance low-latency backend services that support DDoS detection, classification, and mitigation across OCI’s edge.
- Contribute to scalable data and control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with a focus on resiliency and fault isolation.
- Help develop and integrate traffic engineering features (e.g., BGP signaling, routing policy) with OCI networking, DNS, and edge services under guidance from senior engineers.
- Participate in operational readiness: support SLO/SLA tracking, on-call rotations with mentorship, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident improvements.
- Build and maintain automation-first workflows: CI/CD pipelines, test suites, safe deployments (canary/blue-green), and infrastructure-as-code.
- Instrument services for observability (metrics, logs, traces) and contribute to capacity/scale testing for high-availability systems.
- Collaborate with product, SRE, and network engineering to deliver features from design to GA with security-by-design practices.
- Participate in threat modeling, design reviews, and audit/compliance readiness activities for critical services.
Basic qualifications
- 1–2 years of experience (or strong internships/co-ops) building production backend systems or services.
- Proficiency in at least one of: Java, Python, Go, C++, or Rust; willingness to work primarily in Java for control-plane/services.
- Understanding of core systems concepts: concurrency, performance, API design, and distributed systems fundamentals (coursework or practical projects).
- Hands-on experience with DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD, automated testing, rollout/rollback, and configuration management.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) and cloud fundamentals.
- Basic networking knowledge: TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6, and DNS; eagerness to learn BGP concepts.
- Experience instrumenting services with metrics/alerts and a strong operational mindset.
- Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and willingness to learn from code reviews and design discussions.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to DDoS or network security concepts and common attack/defense patterns.
- Familiarity with anycast routing, traffic steering, or multi-region service patterns.
- Experience with containers and orchestration, plus secure service-to-service communication (e.g., mTLS, policy).
- Exposure to SDN, programmable data planes, or high-rate telemetry/stream processing.
- Interest in resilience engineering, chaos testing, and capacity planning.
- Understanding of zero trust principles and modern security architectures.
How you’ll have impact
- Help deliver core DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities that protect OCI’s infrastructure availability.
- Contribute to customer-facing features that provide self-service policy and visibility.
- Improve engineering quality, automation, and compliance maturity across the stack.
Ways of working
- Security and privacy by design with auditable controls and policy adherence from day one.
- Data-driven delivery with clear KPIs, SLOs, and stage gates from prototype to GA.
- Collaborative, inclusive engineering culture emphasizing mentorship, code reviews, design docs, and knowledge sharing.
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Join the DDOS Team at OCI to help manage our service and build our new DDOS Product.
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: $68,500 to $158,200 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:
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 - IC2
What you’ll do
- Implement and enhance low-latency backend services that support DDoS detection, classification, and mitigation across OCI’s edge.
- Contribute to scalable data and control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with a focus on resiliency and fault isolation.
- Help develop and integrate traffic engineering features (e.g., BGP signaling, routing policy) with OCI networking, DNS, and edge services under guidance from senior engineers.
- Participate in operational readiness: support SLO/SLA tracking, on-call rotations with mentorship, incident response, runbooks, and post-incident improvements.
- Build and maintain automation-first workflows: CI/CD pipelines, test suites, safe deployments (canary/blue-green), and infrastructure-as-code.
- Instrument services for observability (metrics, logs, traces) and contribute to capacity/scale testing for high-availability systems.
- Collaborate with product, SRE, and network engineering to deliver features from design to GA with security-by-design practices.
- Participate in threat modeling, design reviews, and audit/compliance readiness activities for critical services.
