Lead Principal Core Infrastructure Engineer

Mentors engineering teams and leads the architecture of scalable, resilient physical security platforms and applications on OCI, including access control, video management, credentialing, alarm monitoring, and edge-device integrations. Defines performance, availability, durability, recovery, and data-retention requirements; removes bottlenecks across real-time event, video, and telemetry pipelines; and designs fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable systems with graceful degradation, throttling, failover, and offline continuity. Establishes SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, operational-readiness standards, and incident-response practices while directing resolution of complex production issues and RCAs. Architects advanced identity, authorization, encryption, audit, and device-security controls, drives compliance and remediation, and delivers infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment strategies for safe provisioning, patching, upgrades, and rollback across cloud and edge environments.

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: $146,300 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:
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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and technical direction of large-scale physical security platforms on OCI, including access control, video management, credentialing, alarm monitoring, visitor management, and edge integrations.
• Design highly available, fault-tolerant, and in-service-upgradable systems that support global sites, real-time security events, and large device fleets.
• Define and drive performance, scalability, availability, durability, recovery, and data-retention requirements with product, security, facilities, compliance, and operations stakeholders.
• Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, operational-readiness standards, and resilience mechanisms such as failover, throttling, load shedding, buffering, and offline continuity.
• Architect secure identity, authorization, encryption, audit, secrets-management, and device-communication controls across cloud, enterprise, and edge environments.
• Lead complex production investigations, incident response, root-cause analyses, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment, patching, upgrade, certificate-rotation, disaster-recovery, and rollback strategies.
• Mentor engineers, influence cross-organizational technical decisions, and raise engineering standards across teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native software platforms.
• Strong knowledge of system architecture, networking, data consistency, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.
• Experience building services using containers, orchestration platforms, APIs, event-driven architectures, databases, and messaging or streaming technologies.
• Demonstrated expertise in cloud security, identity and access management, encryption, auditability, vulnerability remediation, and secure software delivery.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, configuration management, observability, and site reliability engineering practices.
• Proven ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives and resolve complex production issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with OCI services and architecture, particularly compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, identity, monitoring, and security services.
• Experience developing or operating physical security systems such as access control, video management, credentialing, alarm monitoring, or visitor management.
• Knowledge of integrations with cameras, badge readers, controllers, sensors, edge gateways, and third-party security platforms.
• Familiarity with physical security protocols and standards, including ONVIF, OSDP, RTSP, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting globally distributed, business-critical, or safety-critical platforms with strict availability and recovery requirements.
• Knowledge of privacy, data residency, retention, and compliance requirements applicable to video, identity, and physical security data.
• Experience with formal verification, threat modeling, zero-trust architecture, or advanced reliability testing.