Senior Cloud Infra Architect - WAF & Security

Oracle Corporation; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation seeks a senior software architect to lead the architecture of distributed systems powering OCI's Web Application Firewall. You will partner with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to define the long-term technical vision for the application security portfolio.

You will drive the design and delivery of cloud-scale backend services, ensuring high availability, low latency, observability, and reliable operations across CI/CD and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Oracle Corporation seeks a senior software architect to lead the architecture of distributed systems powering OCI's Web Application Firewall. You will partner with security engineers, product managers, and platform teams to define the long-term technical vision for the application security portfolio.

You will drive the design and delivery of cloud-scale backend services, ensuring high availability, low latency, observability, and reliable operations across CI/CD and IaC practices.