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Build the Future of Cloud at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we enable mission-critical applications for the world's top enterprises, delivering hyper-scale, secure, multi-tenant cloud services across 50+ global regions. As leaders in cloud innovation, OCI is driving transformation with dedicated, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge computing deployments-redefining what's possible for the cloud ecosystem.

About Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO)
Within TSO, our mission is to maximize customer choice and transparency while delivering high-value cloud solutions. We are at the strategic center of OCI's most ambitious projects-architecting and delivering next-generation platforms and frameworks to empower developers and support groundbreaking cloud services.

What You'll Be Building and Leading

• End-to-End Solutions: Provide technical leadership in designing, architecting, and delivering greenfield cloud services and platforms from inception to production at global scale.
• Foundational Frameworks: Spearhead the engineering of new container runtimes and distributed frameworks to power OCI's highest-availability and most demanding workloads.
• Performance at Scale: Direct the development of bleeding-edge, high-performance persistent storage and networking solutions, setting new benchmarks for cloud infrastructure.
• Strategic Innovation: Define standards and drive adoption of core data-plane components and developer tools across OCI, enabling organizational performance leaps.

Why Join Us?

• Industry Impact: Shape the direction and standards of the global public cloud by leading initiatives with large-scale customer and organizational impact.
• Personal Growth: Accelerate your career at the intersection of technical and strategic leadership, with opportunities to influence OCI's top priorities and outcomes.
• Collaborative Leadership: Partner with and mentor diverse, world-class engineering teams while enjoying autonomy and strong executive support.
• Culture of Excellence: Help foster an inclusive, high-performance workplace where innovators of all backgrounds can thrive, drive change, and deliver excellence.

Who We're Looking For
We're seeking visionary technical leaders who excel at defining and executing at-scale system and data-plane architectures in the public cloud. As a recognized expert, you will deliver complex solutions for OCI's networking and storage needs, mentor senior engineers, drive strategy, and be responsible for cross-team alignment and delivery of mission-critical services. You are respected for providing technical direction, simplifying complexity, improving operational outcomes, and raising the engineering bar throughout the organization. Your influence reaches across product, engineering, and operational teams, and you routinely collaborate with executive leadership to set and realize long-term strategy.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

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: $135,200 to $306,400 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 - IC5

• Provide technical and architectural leadership across multiple teams and projects; set short- and long-term engineering direction for core initiatives.
• Define and drive execution of foundational services/platforms that impact OCI globally.
• Guide teams in decomposing and solving ambiguous, complex problems-striking a balance between innovation, performance, and reliability.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers at all levels; foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, and business leaders to define roadmaps and deliver high-impact outcomes.
• Drive rigorous code and design reviews, operational readiness, and best practice adoption across the organization.
• Represent OCI TSO in cross-organization initiatives, executive briefings, and industry forums.

Basic Qualifications

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 12+ years' experience delivering distributed, mission-critical cloud services at large scale.
• Recognized expertise in writing and reviewing high-quality code in C/C++, Go, or similar languages.
• Exceptional knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system-level optimization for performance and scale.
• Extensive experience with networking data-plane architectures (DPU-based).
• Expertise in network virtualization, protocols, and distributed systems design.
• Proven experience leading operationally critical, Tier-0 platform and infrastructure teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Linux internals, distributed system troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Recognized authority in DPU programming (e.g., P4/Pensando/AMD, DOCA/BlueField) and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure.
• Record of publication, open-source leadership, or conference speaking.