Principal Security Researcher - Sydney, Australia - Oracle
Description
Principal Security Researcher-22000G2QApplicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English
Preferred Qualifications
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 talented security researchers who have genuine excitement for and interest in security.
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
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 static and dynamic analysis of a multi-node Java infrastructure, to writing a fuzzer for an undocumented network protocol or the grammar of a new programming language, to analysis and reverse engineering of firmware used in the thousands of servers supporting our cloud services.
Few other responsibilities includes as below- Scope and execute security assessments across a broad range of on premise software, cloud services and infrastructure
- Perform indepth security assessments leveraging results from other assessments such as static, dynamic, pen testing, red team operations, bug bounty, responsible disclosure and etc.
- Create testing tools to help engineering teams identify securityrelated 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, quickly react to new threat scenarios and share them with the broader security teams across Oracle
- Mentor junior members of the team in software security as a role model
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field (e.g. Electrical Engineering)
- Aptitude for selfstudy, setting and achieving long term goals (for example, learning an unfamiliar programming language)
- Ability to effectively assess and communicate risks and appropriate levels of urgency to management and engineering staff
- Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
- This role does not require access to a cleared work environment. Security clearances are not required, and active clearances cannot be sponsored.
- Eligibility to work in Australia without sponsorship
- This role offers domestically located flexibility of workplace, requiring 50% travel to our Sydney
- North Ryde office
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 extremely large codebases is also highly desirable
- 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 manual penetration testing in at least TWO or more of the following areas
- Mobile, API, Infrastructure, OS, Web Application
- Ability to discover hardtofind vulnerabilities such as insecure Java/PHP/PHAR deserialization, XXE, HTTP desynchronization, cryptography weaknesses (exploiting ECB Shuffling, CBC Bit Flipping and etc.), Mass assignments, template injections, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol issues and etc.
- How to test for/exploit them
- Real world mitigations that can be applied
- Familiarity with vulnerability classification frameworks (e.g. OWASP Top 10, CVSS, MITRE CVE)
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 largescale cuttingedge systems
- The resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, startup 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
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