Senior Principal Distributed Systems Architect

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental leave

Stock purchase plan

Volunteer programs

Job summary

Oracle in Nashville is seeking senior principal engineers to tackle foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability challenges at unprecedented scale. You will help shape a new team and build platforms enabling OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently.

You will lead architecture for scalable, resilient systems, drive performance and security, and mentor multiple teams across incident response, automation, and change management while shaping technical

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the architecture of highly scalable, elastic distributed systems.
• Identify performance bottlenecks, define scalability requirements, and optimize systems for hyperscale workloads.
• Drive innovation in distributed state management and data-plane platforms.
• Architect fault-tolerant systems with redundancy, replication, and resilience mechanisms.
• Establish SLO-based standards for availability, durability, and reliability.
• Define KPIs and telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for complex systems.
• Apply formal verification techniques such as TLA+ for replication and synchronization strategies.
• Provide technical leadership for production incidents and root cause analysis.
• Design strategies for in-service maintenance with minimal customer impact.
• Architect advanced security controls for multi-tenant environments and manage remediation.
• Develop and oversee IaC and automation strategies; drive automated patching and rollbacks.

Job description

Oracle in Nashville is seeking senior principal engineers to tackle foundational distributed-systems, developer-platform, and reliability challenges at unprecedented scale. You will help shape a new team and build platforms enabling OCI engineers to deploy and operate services confidently.

You will lead architecture for scalable, resilient systems, drive performance and security, and mentor multiple teams across incident response, automation, and change management while shaping technical