Cloud Networking Platform Architect — Lead

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 97,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking is expanding its leadership team in Seattle to rearchitect the routing foundation for OCI Networking at cloud scale. You will influence architecture, design, and deployment of highly available distributed services and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with network routing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, networking software, or systems software.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, concurrency, distributed systems, and software design.
• Strong familiarity with network routing protocols; implementation experience is highly desirable.
• Experience building and operating modern CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment workflows for large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience designing, building, and operating highly available, production-grade distributed services at scale.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including driving architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Set group-wide guardrails for platform interoperability, security controls, and client library governance.
• Own cross-group programs (e.g., identity, config, API gateway standards) with measurable reliability/performance impact.
• Establish shared observability frameworks and rollout policies adopted by numerous teams; manage deprecation risk.
• Leads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.
• Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.
• Utilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex software issues.
• Leads strategic initiatives to optimize software testing, quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.
• Encourages innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.
• Resolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systematic issues requiring innovation related to API functionality and integration.
• Implements innovative API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Leads task and project initiatives for the design and development of software, systems, and services.
• Provides technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Collaborates with stakeholders across lines of business and externally, to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.
• Implements innovative performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Conducts regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translates into decisions and plans.
• Collaborates with security and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve development practices and coding standards.

Skills

Distributed systems

Networking

Algorithms

Data structures

Concurrency

Software design

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Release automation

Deployment workflows

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking is expanding its leadership team in Seattle to rearchitect the routing foundation for OCI Networking at cloud scale. You will influence architecture, design, and deployment of highly available distributed services and mentor engineers across multiple teams.

The role requires 10+ years in distributed systems, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with network routing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.