Software Engineering Architect - Crypto

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) Savings Plan with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle seeks an architecture-focused security leader to shape the technical direction of foundational OCI cryptographic and trust services. The role spans authentication, authorization, KMS, secrets, PKI, and certificates, influencing secure, scalable distributed systems across regions.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive durable design patterns, and partner with cross-functional teams to reinforce security controls and platform reliability in a global cloud footprint.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in security architecture.
• Experience designing secure, scalable cryptographic services.
• Ability to mentor senior engineers and lead cross-team reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and influence secure, scalable, highly available cryptographic services across OCI's global cloud footprint.
• Lead architecture for authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, certificates, PKI, and key exchange.
• Partner with engineering leaders to assess security risk, improve resiliency, and strengthen platform-wide trust controls.
• Modernize existing services into cloud-native architectures that scale across regions and customer models.
• Define best practices for secure distributed systems, observability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery for Tier 0 services.
• Guide architecture reviews and decisions across teams integrating with OCI Crypto services.
• Mentor engineers and establish durable design patterns for reliability and security at hyperscale.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

Distributed systems

Leadership

Tools

KMS

PKI

Certificate management

Job description

• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

Overview

This role will shape the architecture and technical direction of foundational OCI security and trust services, including authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, KES, PKI, and certificates. The architect will operate across teams to design secure, resilient, highly available distributed systems that support OCI's global cloud footprint and the internal and customer-facing services that depend on it.

Why OCI

OCI offers the scale of a global cloud platform with the ownership and urgency of a team building foundational infrastructure. This role sits close to services that customers and OCI engineering teams rely on for cryptographic trust, security posture, and platform reliability across regions and realms. The person in this seat can influence durable architecture patterns for Tier 0 systems that protect customer data, enable secure service integration, and support OCI's continued cloud expansion.

Responsibilities

• Design and influence secure, scalable, highly available cryptographic services across OCI's global cloud footprint.
• Lead architecture for services supporting authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, certificates, PKI, and key exchange.
• Partner with engineering leaders and architects to evaluate security risk, improve resiliency, and strengthen platform-wide trust controls.
• Modernize existing services into cloud-native, operationally simple architectures that can scale across regions, realms, and customer security models.
• Define best practices for secure distributed systems, observability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and operational excellence for Tier 0 services.
• Guide architecture reviews and technical decisions across teams that integrate with OCI Crypto services.
• Mentor senior engineers and help establish durable design patterns for reliability, security, and performance at hyperscale.

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Suggest and justify product directions within approved directions. Define responsibilities for new projects and specifies, designs and develops software according to those specifications. Provide consultative software guidance and strategic direction associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• 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 - IC6

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