Principal Infrastructure Architect for Scalable Systems

Oracle; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle US is seeking a Senior Architect to mentor teams and lead the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. You will drive performance, reliability, and security, implementing elastic designs and robust data and coordination strategies across services.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to define scalability requirements, establish SLOs, implement telemetry and automation (IaC), and guide incident response while ensuring compliance and durable operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent proven experience.
• 10 years of experience building and operating large scale, highly available cloud-based distributed systems.
• Specialist skill in a modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C#, Go, or Python.
• Proven understanding of operating system fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of data models and distributed persistence technologies.
• Thorough understanding of security principles, techniques, and protocols.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.
• Proficiency in network, distributed, asynchronous, and concurrent programming.
• Experience building and operating scalable infrastructure software or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Mentor the team in the architecture and design of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems, ensuring horizontal and vertical scalability and overall performance.
• Lead the identification of performance and scalability bottlenecks and recommend solutions to optimize code and/or systems for large‑scale data processing and high‑throughput requirements.
• Lead collaboration with stakeholders to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.
• Leverage deep expertise to design high‑impact, interdependent systems to scale with elasticity.
• Drive innovation in the use of data plane platforms.
• Evaluate whether systems are meeting nonfunctional scalability requirements, and proactively anticipate growing business needs within the business unit.
• Design and oversee fault‑tolerant, interdependent systems capable of withstanding in‑service updates by implementing sophisticated redundancy, replication, and automatic failover capabilities.
• Lead the design and implementation of systems that effectively handle service disruptions by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
• Guide the optimization of advanced mechanisms to handle network unreliability, including load‑shedding, throttling, and rate‑limiting.
• Design interdependent systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs).
• Define KPIs and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running interdependent systems.
• Drive the creation of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms.

Skills

Java

C

C++

C#

Go

Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Oracle US is seeking a Senior Architect to mentor teams and lead the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. You will drive performance, reliability, and security, implementing elastic designs and robust data and coordination strategies across services.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to define scalability requirements, establish SLOs, implement telemetry and automation (IaC), and guide incident response while ensuring compliance and durable operations.