Senior Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) plan with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle OCI is seeking a visionary technical leader to architect and deliver at-scale cloud services, guiding global platforms from inception to production and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will drive foundational frameworks, high‑performance storage and networking, and core data‑plane components, influencing OCI's priorities and outcomes with executive collaboration and cross‑team alignment.

Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years’ experience delivering distributed, mission‑critical cloud services at large scale.
• Extensive experience with networking data‑plane architectures (DPU-based).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and architectural leadership across multiple teams and projects; set short- and long-term engineering direction for core initiatives.
• Define and drive execution of foundational services/platforms that impact OCI globally.
• Guide teams in decomposing and solving ambiguous, complex problems—striking a balance between innovation, performance, and reliability.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers at all levels; foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and business leaders to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Drive rigorous code and design reviews, operational readiness, and best practice adoption across the organization.
• Represent OCI TSO in cross‑organization initiatives, executive briefings, and industry forums.

Skills

C/C++, Go

Distributed systems

Networking data-plane

Linux internals

DPU programming

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

DOCA/BlueField (DPU)

Job description

Oracle OCI is seeking a visionary technical leader to architect and deliver at-scale cloud services, guiding global platforms from inception to production and mentoring engineers across teams.

You will drive foundational frameworks, high‑performance storage and networking, and core data‑plane components, influencing OCI's priorities and outcomes with executive collaboration and cross‑team alignment.