Senior Principal Cloud Platform Architect

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle OCI seeks visionary technical leaders to architect and deliver bold, scalable cloud services and platforms. You will guide end-to-end development, define standards for data-plane components, and mentor engineers across multiple teams, ensuring high availability and performance at global scale.

You will collaborate with product and business leaders to align roadmaps, influence OCI’s priorities, and drive excellence through rigorous reviews and proactive operational readiness.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years’ experience delivering distributed, mission‑critical cloud services at large scale.
• Recognized expertise in writing and reviewing high-quality code in C/C++, Go, or similar languages.

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

Technical leadership

Distributed cloud

C/C++/Go

Networking data-plane

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

DPU programming

Job description

Oracle OCI seeks visionary technical leaders to architect and deliver bold, scalable cloud services and platforms. You will guide end-to-end development, define standards for data-plane components, and mentor engineers across multiple teams, ensuring high availability and performance at global scale.

You will collaborate with product and business leaders to align roadmaps, influence OCI’s priorities, and drive excellence through rigorous reviews and proactive operational readiness.