Database System Engineer - AI Data Security (Redwood Shores, CA)

Job Description

About the Team

Security is fundamental to data management in enterprises. As Oracle AI Database brings AI to the data ,AI agents gain broader autonomy and connectivity, risks from prompt/data injection, excessive agency with over-privileged access, increase significantly. The Oracle Database Security group is building the next generation data security platform in the Oracle AI Database. It delivers SQL-based, fine-grained access control at the row, column, and cell levels, enforced based on end-user identity and authorization. It secures AI-based agentic applications, analytics tools, and enterprise workloads.

What You'll Do

• Lead design and development of the new data security platform, integrate the platform with identity management and database application frameworks
• Own end-to-end architecture spanning the database kernel through middleware and identity services;
• Partner across Oracle's RDBMS, Applications, Analytics, and SaaS teams to deliver integrated solutions
• Establish and enforce security design guidelines for database and application teams; lead design/architecture reviews and threat modeling for AI/agentic scenarios.
• Champion a culture of innovation, rigorous testing, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Database system and security

• 10 years building large-scale system software (databases, OS, distributed systems, application servers, or cloud services).
• Deep expertise in secure system design for performance, scalability, high availability, and operational manageability.
• Strong command of security fundamentals: authentication/authorization, applied cryptography, network and transport security, protocols, and enterprise security practices.
• System-level design and programming on UNIX/Linux: memory management, concurrency control, caching, networking/RPC, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of major RDBMS internals and security features; fluent in SQL and database access patterns.
• Strong C/C++; or Java systems programming; familiarity with PL/SQL, JSON
• Excellent problem solving, design communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Master's degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent experience preferred.

GenAI and Agentic Security

• Practical understanding of LLMs and GenAI system architectures: prompt processing, context windows, embeddings/vector stores, RAG, tool use/function calling, and orchestration.
• Experience securing agentic applications: least-privilege policy design for agents/tools, data segmentation and masking for prompts and retrieval, prompt-injection and data-exfiltration defenses, provenance/lineage, rate-limiting and abuse detection, and red-team/testing methodologies.
• Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and similar agent/tool interoperability standards; ability to design secure policy and identity boundaries for multi-tool, multi-service agent ecosystems.
• Knowledge of AI safety and compliance controls: PII/PHI protection, privacy-preserving retrieval, consent and purpose limitation, auditability, and data residency.
• Understanding of secure integration patterns between agents, identity platforms, and data planes (e.g., token exchange, scoped credentials, just-in-time access, policy decision points/enforcement points).
• Awareness of emerging frameworks/standards for agent orchestration and secure plugin/tool ecosystems. If leveraging external tools or frameworks, ensure alignment with Oracle security, privacy, and compliance guidelines.

Preferred Background

• Delivered enterprise security platforms or database security features from concept through GA and sustained operations.
• Experience with cloud security services on OCI or other public clouds; building high-throughput, low-latency services with strong isolation guarantees.
• Familiarity with application frameworks for Java, Python and .NET, security integration points and middleware security: 3-tier architectures, identity and access management, and policy management systems.
• Success leading cross-org initiatives, influencing design through clear threat models, and driving measurable security outcomes.

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Responsibilities

As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.

Qualifications

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: $96,800 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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