Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Ll Oefentherapie; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing Autonomous OCI, a bold initiative to build a cloud platform that scales with minimal manual work. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will help shape Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI), the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance.

You will lead design and delivery of complex services, set scalability requirements, and mentor peers to raise the technical bar while

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, Rust, C/C++.
• Deep experience in core infrastructure areas: distributed systems, cloud control planes, scheduling, storage, networking, security, reliability, platform automation.
• Ability to independently lead the design and delivery of complex services that must be correct, resilient, observable, and easy to operate.
• Strong understanding of failure handling, concurrency, asynchronous workflows, safe retries, and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Leads development and begins architecting components of scalable, elastic distributed systems.
• Defines and enforces scalability requirements for owned components; optimizes code and data paths for high-throughput workloads.
• Establishes KPIs and telemetry; builds proactive dashboards and alerts; designs validation, replication, and synchronization for correctness and durability.
• Proactively diagnoses and resolves production issues, mentors peers, and ensures operational readiness.
• Implements robust security controls and develops IaC and automation for safe patching and rollbacks.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

System design

Java/Go/Rust/C++

Debugging skills

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Education

BS/MS in CS

Job description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is advancing Autonomous OCI, a bold initiative to build a cloud platform that scales with minimal manual work. As a Principal Member of Technical Staff, you will help shape Lightweight Infrastructure (LWI), the next-generation runtime and platform layer for compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and governance.

You will lead design and delivery of complex services, set scalability requirements, and mentor peers to raise the technical bar while