Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute delivers bare metal and virtual machine instances - CPU and GPU -at global scale. We are hiring a Consulting Member of Technical Staff to provide hands-on technical leadership for OCI compute control plane services, with a focus on Imaging and Container Registry. You will architect and deliver distributed systems that are multi-tenant, highly available, and horizontally scalable across OCI regions, while driving operational excellence and cross-team technical alignment.
In this role, you will:
- Architect, design, and operate distributed, highly available, and resilient systems for multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and cost-efficient architectures that deliver consistent latency, throughput, and durability across OCI regions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Compute, Storage, Networking, OKE and functions to deliver new platform features focusing on Imaging, Container Registry Services, enforce secure-by-default designs, and improve overall services reliability.
- Mentor and guide engineers in distributed systems design, high-scale data processing, and operational excellence; set and raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
- Drive operational excellence by owning service-level objectives (availability, latency, durability) and reducing toil through automation, observability, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Own the full service lifecycle from design and implementation to deployment, on-call, and continuous improvement — maintaining high code and reliability standards.
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for OCI Imaging, Container Registry Services .
- Partner with product management and field teams to translate customer needs into roadmap priorities for Oracle Imaging & Container Registry Services.
- Contribute to the broader Compute vision, influencing how Oracle’s Imaging & Container Registry Services evolve to support mission-critical workloads globally.
We are looking for a hands-on senior engineer with technical breadth, proven experience in solving cloud scale problems, distributed systems design & implementation experience to build fault tolerant solutions that will form the foundations of the next generation of Compute offerings. The candidate is expected to have strong written and verbal communications skills, the ability to lead projects across organizational boundaries, and experience representing their work to senior leaders.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of development experience with large scale, highly available distributed systems
- Proficiency in Java programming patterns, programming experience with Scala, Python is preferred.
- Advanced knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and operating systems.
- Experience with operating distributed services at scale
- Expertise in Linux and operating systems
- Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills, strong ownership and drive
- Deep understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems
- Ability to propose, scope, design and direct automation, optimizations, and enhancements
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a related IT field or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
**Soft Skills & Leadership **
- Proven ability to drive technical outcomes, take ownership of deliverables, and work independently in fast-evolving AI solution spaces.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts and document solution approaches, collaborate across multiple geo distributed teams.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability leveraging AI, distributed systems, and cloud-native application behaviors.
- A proactive, experimentation-oriented mindset with a strong willingness to learn and guide team on emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in management and automation of end-to-end CPU/GPU lifecycles at scale
- Proficiency with Cloud and CICD environments
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, OS Images and Terraform
- Proficiency with modern build tools and pipelines
- Proficiency building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure
- Proficiency with change control management and mature operating processes
- Proficiency with Security including Identity, SSL and certificates
- Proficiency with Database and Data Stores
Career level - IC5
As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. Define specifications for significant new projects and specify, design and develop software according to those specifications. You will perform professional software development tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.
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: $96,800 to $251,600 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:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- 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 - IC5