2 days ago
Base Salary
$170k - $355k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design highly available control-plane services managing critical infrastructure state and metadata.
- Architect distributed systems providing strong consistency, durability, and transactional correctness.
- Define replication, recovery, fault-tolerance, security, and data-integrity strategies.
- Lead architecture decisions involving distributed transactions, consensus mechanisms, and coordination services.
- Design systems that preserve correctness during failures and large-scale operational events.
- Establish reliability, durability, observability, and operational-safety standards for foundational infrastructure.
- Partner with engineering teams to safely operate globally distributed systems.
- Drive technical direction for metadata management, control-plane architecture, transactional infrastructure, and distributed state management.
- Evaluate architectural tradeoffs involving scale, performance, reliability, correctness, and long-term operational stability.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in distributed-systems architecture.
- Significant experience designing control-plane, metadata-management, or distributed-data systems.
- Strong understanding of distributed transactions, replication, consensus algorithms, and recovery mechanisms.
- Experience building systems where correctness, durability, and data integrity are business-critical.
- Expertise in strong-consistency models and transactional guarantees.
- Proven success designing highly available and fault-tolerant distributed services.
- Strong understanding of stateful distributed systems and transaction processing.
- Working knowledge of relational-database concepts and transaction-management principles.
- Strong architectural judgment when evaluating scale, performance, reliability, and correctness tradeoffs.
- Experience leading complex infrastructure initiatives across multiple engineering organizations.
- Experience with distributed databases, metadata services, control planes, consensus protocols, or large-scale transactional systems is relevant to the success profile.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, AD&D, and supplemental life insurance.
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) savings and investment plan with company match.
- Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, and paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning, group legal, and voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
- US-based employees complete identity verification involving biometric information as part of onboarding, with accommodations potentially available following individualized assessment.
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About Oracle
Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.