Principal Software Architect: Scalable, Fault‑Tolerant Systems

Oracle; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off (vacation)

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior architect to mentor teams and lead the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. The role focuses on identifying bottlenecks, defining scalability requirements, and designing elastic, high-impact systems for hyper-scale workloads while advancing data plane platforms.

Responsibilities include driving incident response, SLO-aligned durability, and enterprise automation (IaC) with emphasis on security, reliability, and automation.

Qualifications

• Mentor the team in the architecture and design of highly scalable distributed systems.
• Identify performance and scalability bottlenecks and optimize systems for large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Mentor the team in architecture and design of scalable distributed systems such as DNS and L7 Proxy.
• Lead identification of performance bottlenecks and propose solutions for large-scale data processing.
• Define system scalability requirements with stakeholders to meet customer expectations.
• Design high-impact, elastic interdependent systems that scale up and down.
• Drive innovation in data plane platforms.
• Evaluate nonfunctional scalability requirements and anticipate future business needs.
• Define KPIs and telemetry to monitor system health and reliability.
• Develop complex dashboards and alerting mechanisms for reliability.

Skills

System architecture

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Incident response

Job description

Oracle is seeking a senior architect to mentor teams and lead the architecture of highly scalable, interdependent distributed systems. The role focuses on identifying bottlenecks, defining scalability requirements, and designing elastic, high-impact systems for hyper-scale workloads while advancing data plane platforms.

Responsibilities include driving incident response, SLO-aligned durability, and enterprise automation (IaC) with emphasis on security, reliability, and automation.