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Principal Security Researcher-June 2024
Madison
Jun 6, 2025
About Principal Security Researcher

  Job Description

  Onsite presence required in Columbia, MD or Denver, CO (secure, non-government facility)

  Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Oracle's most critical customers? We are seeking experienced, hardworking, and dedicated security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in security. You must relish the challenge of assessing large, complex software products. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel bugs and stitch them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts is essential in this role.

  Who We Are

  Oracle’s Software Assurance organization has the mission is to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality. We are an inclusive and diverse team of high caliber application security researchers, distributed globally, who thrive on new challenges. We are seeking experienced, hardworking, and dedicated security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in security to work on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and mobile engineering teams. You must relish the challenge of assessing large, complex software products. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel bugs and stitch them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts is essential in this role.

  Responsibilities

  Do you have a passion for high scale services and working with some of Oracle's most critical customers? We are seeking experienced, passionate, and dedicated security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in security. You must relish the challenge of assessing large, complex software products. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel bugs and stitch them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts is critical in this role.

  Job Description

  Oracle’s Software Assurance organization has the mission is to make application security and software assurance, at scale, a reality. We are an inclusive team with varied strengths of high caliber application security researchers, distributed globally, who thrive on new challenges. We are seeking experienced, passionate, and talented security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in security to work on a critical greenfield software assurance project collaboratively with our cloud and mobile engineering teams. You must relish the challenge of assessing large, complex software products. Creativity is highly valued; being able to find novel bugs and stitch them together to create something greater than the sum of their parts is essential in this role.

  Work You’ll Do

  As a member of our team, you will be responsible for planning and delivering in depth security assessments across a variety of products and services. Your next project could be anything from source code review of backend services, to static and dynamic analysis of a mobile application, to review or creation of technical security designs. Responsibilities include:

  Scope and implement security assessments across a broad range of on-premise software, mobile applications, cloud services and infrastructure

  Perform in-depth security assessments using your code review skills, demonstrating results from other assessments such as static and dynamic analysis

  Create testing tools to help engineering teams identify security-related weaknesses

  Collaborate with engineering teams to help them triage and fix security issues

  Keep yourself abreast of new TTPs (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures) of the attackers, mimic them in your security assessments and/or quickly react to new threat scenarios to provide continuous security assurance

  What You’ll Bring

  Interest in self-study, setting and achieving long term goals (for example, learning an unfamiliar programming language)

  Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills

  Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

  This role does not require access to a cleared work environment. Security clearances are not required, and active clearances cannot be sponsored.

  Nice to Have

  Experience working in a large cloud or Internet software company

  Proficiency with one or more programming languages, preferably Go, Java, Python or C/C++ Ability to perform manual source code reviews in one of the aforementioned languages, or assisted review with code analysis tools such as CodeQL

  Experience navigating and working with very large codebases is also highly desirable

  Experience using common security assessment tools and techniques in one or more the following categories:

  Proficiency in performing mobile application assessment (iOS / Android)

  Reverse Engineering (e.g., IDA Pro/Ghidra/Radare2) and debugging codebase with the objective to find security gaps/vulnerabilities

  Proficiency in Fuzzing (e.g., Jazzer/AFL/Peach) techniques to inject invalid, malformed, or unexpected inputs into a system to reveal software defects and vulnerabilities.

  Proficiency in advanced Mobile, API, Infrastructure, Web Application penetration testing to find vulnerabilities such as insecure Java/PHP/PHAR deserialization, XXE, HTTP desynchronization, cryptography weaknesses (exploiting ECB Shuffling, CBC Bit Flipping etc.), Mass assignments, template injections, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol issues etc.

  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)

  Ability to threat model systems/applications/platforms to assess design and find flaws that can be exploited

  What We’ll Give You

  A team of very skilled and diverse personnel across the globe

  Exposure to mind blowing large-scale ground breaking 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 inquisitive, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues

  The opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

  #LI-LL7

  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 United States only

  Hiring Range: from $109,100 to $223,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

  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 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

  About Us

  An Oracle career can span industries, roles, Countries and cultures, giving you the opportunity to flourish in new roles and innovate, while blending work life in. Oracle has thrived through 40+ years of change by innovating and operating with integrity while delivering for the top companies in almost every industry.

  In order to nurture the talent that makes this happen, we are committed to an inclusive culture that celebrates and values diverse insights and perspectives, a workforce that inspires thought leadership and innovation.

  Oracle offers a highly competitive suite of Employee Benefits designed on the principles of parity, consistency, and affordability. The overall package includes certain core elements such as Medical, Life Insurance, access to Retirement Planning, and much more. We also encourage our employees to engage in the culture of giving back to the communities where we live and do business.

  At Oracle, we believe that innovation starts with diversity and inclusion and to create the future we need talent from various backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to successfully participate in the job application, interview process, and in potential roles. to perform crucial job functions.

  That’s why we’re committed to creating a workforce where all individuals can do their best work. It’s when everyone’s voice is heard and valued that we’re inspired to go beyond what’s been done before.

  Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer * . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

  * Which includes being a United States Affirmative Action Employer

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