Engineering Architect, OCI Storage Innovation

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking IC6 Software Engineers to help shape the future of Storage. You will design and build highly scalable distributed systems for Oracle Cloud Storage, working alongside seasoned engineers across the Core Storage, Metadata, and Web Service layers.

You’ll tackle data movement, scalability, reliability, and performance challenges at cloud scale, with opportunities to influence architectural direction and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong infrastructure engineering background close to underlying tech stack.
• Knowledge of distributed systems concepts, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop highly scalable distributed systems supporting Oracle Cloud Storage.
• Build foundational services within Core Storage, Metadata, or Web Service layers.
• Solve complex infrastructure problems involving data movement, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to evolve the architecture of Oracle’s cloud infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction within the organization.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Cloud storage

Java

C++

Go

Rust

Public cloud experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

OCI

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking exceptional IC6 Software Engineers to help shape the future of Storage. As AI and agentic workloads fundamentally change how applications are built, deployed, and operated, the underlying storage platform must evolve to meet new demands for scale, performance, reliability, and efficiency. Working alongside some of OCI's most experienced distributed systems engineers, you’ll design and build foundational services that support Oracle’s global cloud platform. This role offers the opportunity to solve some of the industry’s most complex infrastructure challenges while influencing the future architecture of one of Oracle Cloud's core services.

Responsibilities

What you’ll do

• Design and develop highly scalable distributed systems supporting Oracle Cloud Storage.
• Build foundational services within the Core Storage, Metadata, or Web Service layers.
• Solve complex infrastructure problems involving data movement, scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Design systems capable of managing massive datasets across multiple regions while maintaining low latency and high availability.
• Improve platform efficiency through architectural enhancements, system refactoring, and operational simplification.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to evolve the architecture supporting Oracle’s global cloud infrastructure.
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, technical design discussions, and architectural leadership.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction within the organization.
• Influence the future of cloud storage as customer workloads continue to evolve with AI and distributed computing.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong infrastructure engineering background with experience working close to the underlying technology stack.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
• Experience building highly available, fault‑tolerant services operating at cloud scale.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Go, Rust, or similar systems programming languages.
• Experience working in public cloud environments such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Knowledge of caching strategies, throttling, recovery mechanisms, and storage performance optimization
• Excellent problem‑solving skills with the ability to simplify complex distributed systems.

Why This Opportunity

• This is a rare opportunity to work on one of Oracle Cloud's foundational services during a period of significant technological change.
• You’ll help solve challenges such as:
• Designing storage systems for rapidly evolving AI and agentic workloads.
• Building infrastructure that scales globally while maintaining low latency and high durability.
• Rethinking how storage is architected as customer usage patterns continue to evolve.
• Delivering innovations that directly impact Oracle’s largest enterprise customers and internal cloud services.
• If you’re passionate about distributed systems and want to build infrastructure that powers the future of cloud computing, this team offers exceptional technical depth, scale, and impact.
• Education
• A bachelor’s degree is preferred for this role. An advanced degree is a plus, but not essential.

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: $169,800 - $355,400 per year. 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:

• 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

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 - IC6

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