Senior Control Plane Architect - Distributed Transactions

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 169,800 - 355,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Health care FSA

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle seeks a senior Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect to design and evolve highly reliable distributed systems that manage critical cloud infrastructure data and metadata.

This role emphasizes correctness, durability, security, and operational reliability at scale, focusing on foundational services, distributed transactions, and consensus mechanisms rather than new feature development.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in distributed systems architecture and control planes.
• Experience with metadata services and scalable transactional systems.
• Strong understanding of replication, consensus, and recovery mechanisms.
• Proven ability to lead complex infrastructure initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available control plane services managing infrastructure state.
• Architect distributed systems with strong consistency and durability.
• Define replication, recovery, security, and data integrity strategies.
• Lead decisions on distributed transactions and coordination services.
• Ensure correctness under failure and scale in production environments.
• Establish reliability, observability, and safety standards for core services.
• Partner with engineering teams to operate globally distributed systems.
• Set technical direction for metadata management and transactional infrastructure.
• Evaluate tradeoffs focused on correctness and long-term stability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Control plane architecture

Metadata management

Distributed transactions

Replication

Consensus algorithms

Recovery mechanisms

Data integrity

Architectural judgment

Infrastructure leadership

Job description

Oracle seeks a senior Control Plane Transactional Datastore Architect to design and evolve highly reliable distributed systems that manage critical cloud infrastructure data and metadata.

This role emphasizes correctness, durability, security, and operational reliability at scale, focusing on foundational services, distributed transactions, and consensus mechanisms rather than new feature development.