Principal Architect

Oracle; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation seeks a Principal Architect to enhance product quality by refining testing processes and aligning test coverage with real customer deployments of Oracle Database. You will bridge customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to prioritize testing around production patterns.

The ideal candidate brings deep Oracle RDBMS expertise, a strong grasp of enterprise database architectures, and the ability to translate deployment patterns into high-value quality

Qualifications

• Deep Oracle RDBMS expertise.
• Experience with enterprise database architectures.
• Ability to translate customer deployment patterns into testing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Become SME on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database across enterprise environments.
• Establish customer engagement mechanisms—forums, working groups, and data-driven feedback channels.
• Analyze telemetry, support trends, benchmark workloads, and field feedback to identify testing gaps.
• Translate customer usage patterns into improved functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing.
• Drive Oracle Database-specific testing strategies across on‑premises, OCI, and hybrid environments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.

Skills

Oracle RDBMS

Enterprise architecture

Testing strategies

Customer patterns

Telemetry analysis

Tools

Oracle Database

Telemetry tools

Job description

About the Role

We're seeking a Principal Architect to help improve product quality by improving our testing processes and ensuring that our tests cover key customer use cases. This role will serve as the bridge between customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to understand how Oracle Database is deployed and used in production. Using these insights, you'll shape testing priorities and improve coverage of real-world workloads

The ideal candidate brings deep Oracle RDBMS expertise, understands enterprise database architectures, and can translate real customer deployment patterns into high-value quality initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.

What You'll Do

• Become the subject matter expert on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database across enterprise environments.
• Establish customer engagement mechanisms—including customer advisory forums, internal working groups, and data-driven feedback channels to continuously capture deployment patterns, operational pain points, and emerging workloads.
• Analyze customer telemetry, support trends, benchmark workloads, and field feedback to identify testing gaps and opportunities.
• Translate customer usage patterns into improved functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing.
• Drive Oracle Database-specific testing strategies that better represent customer deployments across on-premises, OCI, and hybrid environments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.