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This role will work across the compute platform and control plane, spanning provisioning, scheduling, placement, lifecycle management, capacity orchestration, fleet management, service APIs, and the foundational distributed systems that support large-scale cloud infrastructure.The ideal candidate brings exceptional depth in software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure, with the ability to reason across complex systems, identify structural weaknesses, simplify architectures, and define designs that can operate reliably at hyperscale.This architect will work closely with senior engineers, engineering leaders, product teams, and adjacent infrastructure organizations to evolve the compute platform to the next level of scalability, reliability, efficiency, and engineering velocity.\n Key Responsibilities\nCompute Platform Architecture\nDefine and evolve the architecture of the core compute software platform. \nEstablish clear architectural principles, service boundaries, APIs, interfaces, and ownership models across compute platformcomponents.\n\nCompute Control Plane Architecture\nProvide deep technical leadership across compute provisioning, scheduling and placement, capacitydiscovery and allocation, instance and host lifecycle management, configuration and state management,\nfleet orchestration, health monitoring and remediation, failure recovery, service APIs, and regional isolation.\n\nDistributed Systems Leadership\nServe as a technical authority for distributed systems design. Drive architectural rigor in consistency,concurrency, state management, partitioning, replication, idempotency, failure recovery, dependency\nmanagement, and service isolation.\n\nCloud Infrastructure Architecture\nApply deep cloud infrastructure expertise to the design and evolution of the compute platform. Understandthe end-to-end lifecycle of cloud compute capacity, from resource discovery and orchestration through\nprovisioning, customer consumption, maintenance, failure recovery, and retirement.\n\nReliability and Resiliency\nEmbed reliability and resilience into the architecture of the platform. Design for fault containment, gracefuldegradation, recovery, retry safety, deployment safety, and failure isolation.\nScalability and Performance\n\nIdentify scaling limitations across the compute platform and control plane. Develop architectures thatimprove throughput, latency, efficiency, and resource consumption while reducing unnecessary\ninfrastructure overhead.\n\nPlatform Simplification and Modernization\nIdentify legacy complexity, duplicated services, and architectural patterns that limit engineering velocity oroperational efficiency. Define pragmatic modernization strategies that allow critical systems to evolve\nwithout unnecessary disruption.\n\nAI-Enabled Platform Transformation\nHelp drive the use of AI to advance both the compute platform and software engineering practices. Identifyopportunities to apply AI to software development, testing, code analysis, debugging, operational\ndiagnostics, incident analysis, anomaly detection, failure prediction, root-cause analysis, capacity\noptimization, and automated remediation.\n\nTechnical Leadership and Influence\nOperate as a senior technical leader across organizational boundaries. Lead complex architecture reviews,drive alignment on critical technical decisions, mentor senior engineers, and partner with Distinguished\nEngineers, Architects, Directors, and Vice Presidents on long-term platform strategy.\n\nExpected Impact\nA simpler, more coherent compute platform architecture.\nA highly scalable and resilient compute control plane.\nClearer service boundaries and stronger platform APIs.\nReduced architectural fragmentation and technical debt.\nImproved reliability and fault isolation.\nBetter scalability and performance across critical services.\nFaster engineering velocity through reusable platform capabilities.\nMore effective use of AI to improve engineering and operational workflows.\nMinimum Qualifications\n12+ years of experience in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scaleplatform development.\n\nDeep expertise in software architecture and distributed systems.\nStrong experience designing and operating large-scale, highly available services.\nSignificant experience with cloud infrastructure or large-scale infrastructure platforms.\nStrong understanding of control-plane architecture, service APIs, state management, orchestration, andautomation.\n\nExperience designing systems for scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational efficiency.\nAbility to reason across large and complex software systems and identify architectural simplifications.\nProven ability to influence technical direction across multiple engineering teams and organizations.\nStrong programming and systems fundamentals.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience designing cloud compute platforms or large-scale infrastructure control planes.\nDeep experience with scheduling, placement, provisioning, resource management, or fleet orchestrationsystems.\n\nExperience operating systems across multiple regions and failure domains.\nExperience modernizing large-scale infrastructure software while maintaining production stability.\nStrong understanding of cloud infrastructure economics and the relationship between architecture,utilization, and cost.\n\nExperience applying AI-assisted development or AI-driven operational techniques in productionengineering environments.\n\nExperience working with GPU or accelerated compute infrastructure from a software platformperspective.\n\nBachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technicaldiscipline.\n\nTechnical Profile\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on software architect with deep technical credibility and broad systems perspective. They are comfortable going deep into distributed protocols, state machines, consistency models, service interfaces, failure modes, and performance bottlenecks, while also reasoning about the architecture of a very large cloud platform as a whole.Most importantly, they will combine deep software architecture expertise with strong cloud infrastructure judgment and the ability to influence the direction of critical compute systems across the organization.\n Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nAs part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. 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