Overview
OCI is hiring a Sr Principal Software Engineer for the Crypto organization's KMS team. This senior IC will guide the architecture and operational maturity of a Tier 0 key management service that protects customer cryptographic keys and internal OCI service keys on HSM-backed infrastructure. The role spans hardware, security controls, distributed systems, and service ownership for one of OCI's most critical trust platforms.
Why OCI
OCI gives senior engineers the chance to work on foundational cloud services where technical decisions directly affect customer trust, regional resilience, and the security posture of large-scale enterprise workloads. KMS is a rare opportunity to shape the architecture of a security-critical service from the hardware boundary through distributed control planes while helping define how AI can be introduced responsibly into a Tier 0 environment.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the short- and long-term architecture for OCI KMS across HSM-backed key management, service software, distributed systems, and regional reliability.
- Lead technical strategy for a Tier 0 service where durability, recoverability, and operational rigor are fundamental product requirements.
- Partner with security, hardware/platform, SRE, product, and dependent OCI service teams to reduce systemic risk and improve service resilience.
- Drive operational excellence through observability, incident learning, SLO discipline, failure-mode analysis, and pragmatic engineering execution.
- Evaluate and shape responsible AI opportunities for KMS while preserving security boundaries, customer trust, and compliance expectations.
- Mentor senior engineers, raise design quality, and influence architecture decisions across teams without requiring direct reporting authority.
Qualifications
- Experience leading architecture for large-scale cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or security-critical services at senior IC level.
- Strong background in service reliability, operational excellence, incident response, and production ownership for high-availability systems.
- Working knowledge of cryptography, key management, HSM-backed systems, secrets management, identity, or adjacent cloud security domains.
- Ability to reason about stateful distributed systems, data durability, dependency isolation, regional failure modes, and recovery design.
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional technical direction across engineering, security, SRE, and product stakeholders.
- Sound judgment on AI/ML adoption in regulated or security-sensitive infrastructure environments is preferred.
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: $135,200 to $306,400 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 - IC5