Compute Control Plane Architect

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Compute Control Plane Architect to define the future architecture of OCI’s Compute Control and Management Plane. This role will lead the redesign of one of OCI’s foundational cloud services to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, 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 Compute and influence the next generation of hyperscale cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term architectural vision for OCI’s Compute Control and Management Plane.
• Led the redesign of core control plane services to improve scalability, resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Architect highly available distributed systems that operate reliably at hyperscale.
• Establish architectural patterns for control plane services, orchestration, platform management, and operational safety.
• Drive technical strategy across Compute, Product, Security, SRE, and partner engineering organizations.
• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams.
• Influence technical direction through architectural leadership rather than organizational authority.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while raising architectural rigor across OCI.
• Partner with executive engineering leadership to shape OCI’s long-term Compute platform strategy.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Enjoy solving complex systems problems that require long-term architectural thinking.
• Demonstrate exceptional systems design skills and sound architectural judgment.
• Influence engineering organizations through technical credibility rather than positional authority.
• Successfully led large, cross-functional technical initiatives spanning multiple organizations.
• Thrive in greenfield environments where requirements evolve and ambiguity is expected.
• Balance innovation with operational excellence, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Communicate effectively with senior engineers, architects, and executive leadership.

Technical Background

• Designing and operating compute platforms, cloud infrastructure, and distributed control plane architectures.
• Building large-scale distributed systems, including service orchestration, resource scheduling, and platform management.
• Developing cloud infrastructure services, platform APIs, and operational control plane capabilities.
• Driving scalability, resiliency, high availability, fault tolerance, and performance optimization for hyperscale cloud platforms.
• Architecting foundational cloud infrastructure within a hyperscaler or other large-scale cloud provider.

Range and Benefits

Hiring Range in USD: $169,800 - $355,400 per year. 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.

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

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