Principal Oracle Database Quality Architect

Oracle; Redwood City (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 & holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Architect to enhance product quality by refining testing processes and aligning test coverage with real customer workloads. You will bridge customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to translate deployment patterns into high-value quality initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and scalability.

The ideal candidate has deep Oracle Database expertise and experience shaping testing priorities across on-prem, OCI, and hybrid

Qualifications

• 10-15 years in software quality, database, or architecture leadership.
• Deep expertise with Oracle Database technologies and deployments.
• Experience testing enterprise software (functional, performance, scalability, reliability).
• Ability to translate customer requirements into testing priorities.
• Experience collaborating across Development, QA, Sustaining Engineering and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Be the SME on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database in enterprise environments.
• Establish customer engagement mechanisms to capture deployment patterns and workloads.
• Analyze telemetry, support trends, and benchmark workloads to identify testing gaps.
• Translate usage patterns into improved testing strategies and quality initiatives.
• Drive testing strategies across on-prem, OCI, and hybrid deployments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption.

Skills

Oracle DB expertise

Enterprise deployments

Communication skills

Executive presentation

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

RAC

Data Guard

Multitenant

ASM

Exadata

OCI

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Architect to enhance product quality by refining testing processes and aligning test coverage with real customer workloads. You will bridge customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to translate deployment patterns into high-value quality initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and scalability.

The ideal candidate has deep Oracle Database expertise and experience shaping testing priorities across on-prem, OCI, and hybrid