Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)

Principal Software Engineer (DevOps)OracleUnited KingdomJoin 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.**Basic qualifications*** 7–10 years building production backend systems, including 3–5 years in high-scale and/or low-latency environments.* Deep expertise in Linux networking data path and kernel-level networking (e.g., XDP, eBPF, dpdk, iptables, nftables) for traffic processing, filtering, and observability.* Proficiency in one or more: Java/Python/C++/Rust/Go (strong preference for Java for control-plane/service...