Principal DDOS Software Engineer

Oracle

📍 United States, United States, United States

Regular Employee Computer Occupations Posted March 01, 2026

Job Description

Overview

Join OCI’s Edge Security team as a Principal Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-scale DDoS protection. You’ll lead design for high-performance detection and mitigation systems, drive automation and operational excellence, and set the technical direction for customer-facing DDoS capabilities across OCI’s global edge. 


This role requires deep expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (such as XDP, eBPF, DPDK, iptables, nftables), in addition to strong systems and DevOps engineering experience.

What you’ll do

  • Lead architecture and delivery of low-latency backend services for DDoS detection, classification, and mitigation.
  • Define and evolve scalable data/control planes (policy, signaling, telemetry, orchestration) with strong fault isolation, resiliency, and compliance-by-design.
  • Own traffic engineering strategy (anycast, BGP policy, routing integration) and partner with networking, DNS, and edge pl...