Senior Architect, Managed Services (Distributed Systems)

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Oracle seeks a senior Architect to define the next generation of Managed Services for distributed applications and workloads on OCI. You will shape architecture across messaging, streaming, Kafka, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and underlying primitives to enable scalable, reliable services.

This broad technical leadership role emphasizes creating reusable platform primitives and guiding multiple teams to improve availability, latency, and operational resilience while aligning to

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing or materially evolving distributed systems at meaningful scale.
• Demonstrated ability to explain the architecture, tradeoffs, and outcomes of systems you personally designed or changed.
• Experience evolving live, customer-facing systems while maintaining reliability and minimizing disruption.
• Strong technical breadth across service APIs, distributed architecture, storage, compute, networking, and operational characteristics.
• Experience solving high-scale, highly available, low-latency, or high-throughput problems.
• Proven ability to move from an ambiguous customer or business problem to a practical technical solution.
• Demonstrated influence across multiple engineering teams without relying on formal authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction and architecture across OCI Managed Services and shared distributed-system capabilities.
• Translate ambiguous customer and workload requirements into clear technical strategy, architecture, and execution priorities.
• Drive pragmatic build, adopt, extend, reuse, and simplify decisions across a broad service portfolio.
• Lead the evolution of production systems, addressing architectural limits, technical debt, operational risk, and scale without disrupting customers.
• Partner with engineering leaders across messaging, streaming, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and adjacent platform teams.
• Establish reusable architecture, interfaces, patterns, and technical mechanisms adopted across multiple teams.
• Drive decisions involving partitioning, replication, consistency, durability, failure handling, backpressure, latency, capacity, and customer isolation.
• Improve operational resilience through thoughtful design for observability, deployment, upgrades, incident response, cost, and operational toil.
• Mentor engineers and architects, strengthening technical depth and multiplying the effectiveness of the broader organization.
• Influence across organizational boundaries through technical judgment, clear communication, and a strong point of view.

Job description

Oracle seeks a senior Architect to define the next generation of Managed Services for distributed applications and workloads on OCI. You will shape architecture across messaging, streaming, Kafka, workflow, search, resource intelligence, and underlying primitives to enable scalable, reliable services.

This broad technical leadership role emphasizes creating reusable platform primitives and guiding multiple teams to improve availability, latency, and operational resilience while aligning to