Senior Cloud Compute Platform Architect

Oracle Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking an senior Software Architect for Compute Platform and Control Plane to shape the architecture of core cloud infrastructure. The role spans provisioning, scheduling, lifecycle management, fleet orchestration, and regional isolation, guiding the platform toward hyperscale reliability and engineering velocity.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-scale design, and architectural leadership, collaborating with engineers, product teams,

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale platform development.
• Deep expertise in software architecture and distributed systems.
• Strong experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available services.
• Significant experience with cloud infrastructure or large-scale infrastructure platforms.
• Strong understanding of control-plane architecture, service APIs, state management, orchestration, and automation.
• Experience designing systems for scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational efficiency.
• Ability to reason across large and complex software systems and identify architectural simplifications.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams and organizations.
• Strong programming and systems fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture of the core compute software platform.
• Establish clear architectural principles, service boundaries, APIs, interfaces, and ownership models across compute platform components.
• Provide deep technical leadership across compute provisioning, scheduling and placement, capacity discovery and allocation, instance and host lifecycle management, configuration and state management, fleet orchestration, health monitoring and remediation, failure recovery, service APIs, and regional isolation.
• Lead architectural reviews and drive alignment on critical technical decisions across related engineering groups.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Large-scale systems

Leadership

Programming fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD

Job description

Oracle Corporation is seeking an senior Software Architect for Compute Platform and Control Plane to shape the architecture of core cloud infrastructure. The role spans provisioning, scheduling, lifecycle management, fleet orchestration, and regional isolation, guiding the platform toward hyperscale reliability and engineering velocity.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-scale design, and architectural leadership, collaborating with engineers, product teams,