Security Engineer 5

Senior Principal Security Researcher

Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Oracle's most critical customers? We are seeking an experienced, passionate, and talented Senior Principal Security Researcher who has genuine excitement for and interest in reverse engineering, vulnerability finding and exploit development. You will support in reverse engineering and deep understanding of vulnerabilities, including impact analysis and automation. You must relish the challenge of findings critical vulnerabilities in complex software binaries through automation and manual practices. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel vulnerabilities is essential in this role.

We are a world-class team of high calibre security researchers and application security engineers who thrive on new challenges. We are an inclusive and diverse team with a full spectrum of experience distributed globally. We have the resources of a large enterprise and the energy of a start-up, working on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud team. The Software Assurance organization has the mission to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality. The Research team are a dedicated team, leveraging each other's insights and abilities to produce cutting edge solutions to difficult reverse engineering and vulnerability finding problems. Contributing to the overall success of the Software Assurance organization. Join us to grow your career and create the future of software assurance at scale together.

As a member of our team, you will work independently or side-by-side within a team structure to develop and deliver practical solutions. You will be responsible for designing, implementing and testing complex software, often times through reverse engineering, with the objective of identifying impactful security vulnerabilities across a variety of architectures and platforms.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field (e.g. Electrical Engineering) or related relevant experience
• 10+ years of relevant experience in vulnerability identification, deep platform security consulting or equivalent (with demonstrable reverse engineering experience)
• Reverse engineering across various architectures and platforms; including x86/64, ARM. Experience with other platforms such as MIPS, RISCV and others are desirable
• Experience with disassemblers and decompilers (IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, or Ghidra)
• Knowledge of common exploitation countermeasures and their bypasses (CFI, NX, ASLR, etc.)
• Researching operating system and applications to understand strengths and weaknesses in their design and implementation
• Ability to automate reversing tasks, using the headless capabilities (and internal representations) of the tooling
• Software development using C or C++
• Demonstrated leadership skills, organizational capability and management techniques
• A personality and communication skills that inspire teams and team members
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in a large cloud or Internet software company, or similar engagements via consulting
• Experience navigating and working with extremely large codebases and complex binary code
• Proven experience with security research including any published CVEs, papers or presentations
• Experience developing proof of concept exploits bypassing modern exploit mitigations
• Active participant or organizer of Capture the Flag competitions
• Knowledge of common vulnerabilities in different types of software and programming languages, including: how to test for/exploit them, real world mitigations that can be applied, familiarity with vulnerability classification frameworks (e.g. OWASP Top 10)

What We’ll Give You:

• A team of very skilled and diverse personnel across the globe
• Ability to work in a flexible work from home arrangement
• Exposure to mind blowing large-scale cutting-edge systems
• The resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, start-up feel of a smaller team day to day
• Develop new skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
• Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
• Incredible benefits and company perks
• An organization filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
• The opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for expert planning, design and build of security systems, applications, environments and architectures; oversees the implementation of security systems, applications, environments and architectures and ensures compliance with information security standards and corporate security policies and procedures.
• Evaluates existing and proposed technical architectures for security risk, provides expert technical advice to support the design and development of secure architectures and recommends security controls to mitigate those risks.
• Evaluations of internal security architecture may include design assessment, risk assessment, and threat modeling.
• Provides expert technical advice and direction to support the design and development of secure architectures.
• Maintain expert proficiency in emerging trends in information security.
• Determine the best practices for the large-scale Big Data infrastructure used by some Oracle LOBs, including tooling, data architecture, and content.
• May lead incident management teams and provide expert level incident management expertise.
• Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as incident commander of multiple serious incidents.
• Leads development of new methods, playbooks and provide thought-leadership related to incident management throughout Oracle.
• May provide leadership in an incident management team, bringing expert-level skills to respond to security events in line with Oracle incident response playbooks.
• Investigate purported intrusions and breaches, and oversees root cause analysis.
• Coordinates incidents with other business units and may act as Incident Commander on multiple serious incidents.
• Leads development of highly sophisticated scripts, applications, and tools, and trains others in their use.
• Focus on operational and strategic level tasks, and provide counsel and guidance to the junior level security operations engineers in the department.

Disclaimer:

**Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.**

**Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only** US: Hiring Range in USD from: $120,100 to $251,600 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. Career Level - IC5

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