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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Tallahassee, FL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $79,200.0 - $209,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Proxy Servers, Application Firewall, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Software Design Patterns, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Python (Programming Language), Open Web Application Security, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Reliability Engineering, Zero Trust Network Access, Software Engineering, Web Applications, Data Logging, Load Balancing, Concurrency, Software Security, Caching, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Deployment Automation, Performance Monitor, Free and Open-Source Software, Multiaccess Edge Computing, Api Design, Restful APIs, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Data Pipelines, Dynatrace, Vulnerability Analysis, Golang - **Published:** August 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000gpg97l ## About the Role + 5+ years building production software systems, including experience developing large-scale distributed services in cloud or SaaS environments. + Strong proficiency in one or more of the following languages: Java, Go, Python, C++, or Rust. + Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including scalability, resiliency, concurrency, fault tolerance, service communication, and API design. + Strong understanding of HTTP/HTTPS, REST APIs, TLS, reverse proxies, caching, load balancing, and web application architectures. + Experience building customer-facing platform services with strict requirements around availability, performance, and operational excellence. + Proven experience with cloud-native technologies, including containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, and automated testing frameworks. + Strong software engineering fundamentals, including design patterns, performance optimization, code quality, and secure software development practices. + Experience building observability solutions using metrics, distributed tracing, centralized logging, dashboards, and alerting systems. + Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams. + Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a track record of working effectively across engineering, security, product, and operations organizations. Preferred Qualifications + Experience building or operating Web Application Firewall (WAF), API Security, Bot Management, CDN, Edge Computing, or related security products. + Knowledge of common web application attack vectors, including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, credential abuse, automated attacks, and API threats. + Experience with rule engines, policy evaluation systems, threat detection platforms, or traffic inspection technologies. + Background building high-throughput analytics, telemetry, or event-processing pipelines for real-time security insights. + Experience operating globally distributed services across multiple regions and availability domains. + Familiarity with modern security architectures, Zero Trust principles, identity and access management, and secure service-to-service communication. + Experience with compliance, audit readiness, and security-by-design development practices. + Contributions to open-source software, security tooling, or cloud infrastructure projects are a plus. ## Description In this role, you will drive the architecture of distributed systems that power WAF features such as threat detection, rule evaluation, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics. You will partner closely with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to deliver secure, performant, and reliable services while helping define the long-term technical vision for OCI's application security portfolio. What you'll do + Lead the architecture and delivery of cloud-scale backend services that power OCI's Web Application Firewall (WAF) platform. + Design and evolve highly available policy management, rule evaluation, traffic inspection, bot mitigation, API protection, and security analytics services. + Build scalable distributed systems that process and analyze high volumes of HTTP/HTTPS traffic while maintaining low latency and high reliability. + Drive engineering excellence through software architecture reviews, design documentation, code quality standards, and operational best practices. + Partner closely with Security Engineering, Product Management, SRE, and OCI platform teams to define and deliver next-generation application security capabilities. + Establish robust observability through metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring to ensure service health and customer visibility. + Lead automation initiatives across the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD, testing frameworks, deployment automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code. + Drive reliability, scalability, and operational readiness through capacity planning, incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement. + Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy across organizations, and help raise the engineering bar through design reviews and technical leadership. ## Related Videos - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [HTTP headers that make your website go faster](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1676-http-headers-that-make-your-website-go-faster) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Security Pitfalls for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/726-security-pitfalls-for-software-engineers) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) - [You can’t hack what you can’t see](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/41-you-can-t-hack-what-you-can-t-see) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Understanding and Mitigating Common Web Vulnerabilities](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/565-understanding-and-mitigating-common-web-vulnerabilities) - [Dev Digest 134 - Where pixels sing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/477-dev-digest-134-where-pixels-sing)