Core Infrastructure Architect

Organization Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building the next generation of hyperscale cloud services. This organization sits within the Oracle CTO Office and is focused on solving some of the industry's most complex long-term challenges in cloud infrastructure.

Operating as a forward-looking research and architecture organization, the team is responsible for defining the next generation of core cloud platforms that will power OCI's future growth. Rather than making incremental improvements, this organization rethinks foundational architectural assumptions and drives high-impact initiatives that shape the evolution of OCI's infrastructure at hyperscale.

Architects within this organization function as highly autonomous, single-threaded technical leaders responsible for defining entirely new architectural domains, influencing engineering organizations without formal authority, and assembling cross-functional tiger teams to solve highly ambiguous platform-level challenges. This is an environment designed for engineers who embrace change, thrive in ambiguity, enjoy greenfield development, and are energized by solving some of the most challenging distributed systems problems in the cloud industry.

The Opportunity

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Block Storage Architect to define the future architecture of OCI's Block Storage platform. This role will lead the long-term evolution of one of OCI's foundational storage services to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, durability, and operational efficiency. Working within the Chief Technical Architect Office, you will partner directly with senior engineering leadership to establish the long-term architectural direction for OCI Storage and influence the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure.

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.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.


Oracle 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.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. 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.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. 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.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC6

What You'll Do

• Define the long-term architectural vision for OCI's Block Storage platform.
• Drive the evolution of distributed block storage services.
• Architect highly available distributed storage systems at hyperscale.
• Establish architectural patterns for storage control planes, volume management, scheduling, replication, and cross-cell storage management.
• Drive technical strategy across Storage, Compute, Product, Security, and partner engineering organizations.
• Lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Influence technical direction through architectural leadership.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders.

• Partner with executive engineering leadership to shape OCI's long-term storage platform strategy.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Successful candidates are technical leaders who thrive in highly ambiguous environments and enjoy defining the future of large-scale distributed storage platforms.

• Have extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed storage systems.
• Possess deep expertise in block storage, distributed storage architectures, or cloud infrastructure services.
• Demonstrate exceptional systems design skills and sound architectural judgment.
• Have experience designing storage control planes, placement algorithms, volume management, or storage scheduling.
• Have driven architectural improvements in scalability, resiliency, performance, durability, and operational efficiency.
• Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility.
• Lead large, cross-functional technical initiatives.
• Thrive in greenfield environments.
• Balance innovation with operational excellence.
• Communicate effectively with engineers and executive leadership.