Cryptographic Engineer Jobs in Tennessee (NOW HIRING)

Build and operate OCI's business-critical Key Management Service to protect customer data through secure cryptographic key lifecycle management and reliable, cloud-scale security infrastructure. Drive technical initiatives across the stack, from cryptographic-hardware integration to cloud-scale distributed-systems architecture. Design secure, scalable, highly available services that meet rigorous reliability, compliance, and performance requirements and partner across OCI to deliver production-ready security infrastructure for critical cloud services.
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Platform Development

• Design, build, test, debug, and operate components of OCI Key Management Service (KMS), a business-critical cryptographic service that protects customer data across OCI.
• Develop secure, scalable, and maintainable software for key lifecycle management, cryptographic operations, encryption-at-rest, and service integrations.
• Contribute to distributed systems components, backend workflows, API design, and HSM-backed capabilities.

Reliability & Operational Readiness

• Improve availability, performance, and resilience through testing, observability, automation, capacity planning, and operational tooling.
• Troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call support and incident response, and implement durable reliability improvements.
• Create and maintain technical designs, runbooks, and operational documentation.

Engineering & Collaboration

• Follow secure software-development practices, conduct code reviews, and contribute to design, testing, and performance optimization.
• Partner with engineers, architects, and OCI service teams to integrate KMS capabilities into critical cloud services.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution

• Independently manage assigned features and operational work, prioritize deliverables, and drive tasks through design, implementation, testing, rollout, and support.

Collaboration & Partnership

• Collaborate effectively with engineers, architects, security teams, and OCI service owners to deliver secure, production-ready solutions.

Problem Solving

• Diagnose and resolve complex software, distributed-systems, and production issues using data, logs, metrics, and sound engineering judgment.

Continuous Learning & Improvement

• Build expertise in cloud security, cryptography, distributed systems, and operational excellence; apply learnings to improve service reliability, engineering practices, and customer outcomes.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $92,500 to $209,500 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 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 - IC3
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