Architect​/Senior Principal Engineer, SaaS

Job Description

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The Oracle SaaS Engineering organization builds and operates the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications service, a complete suite of enterprise SaaS applications with embedded AI that run on next-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Leading companies trust Oracle to run their critical business functions. Oracle SaaS services are available across 30+ OCI regions around the world and continuing to expand to more regions.

The SaaS Continuity Engineering team is responsible for the design and build of the systems and services that enables Oracle to deliver industry-leading availability and performance objectives for Oracle's SaaS services. The team architects and develops high-availability and service continuity solutions across the entire stack - infrastructure, database, platform, and application services - and all the dependent components. The engineering innovations enable SaaS services to be available to customers without any disruptions even during large-scale incidents.

We are building the next-gen service continuity solutions in a fast‑pace and innovative environment and looking for architects who can design and develop services that operate  a Senior Principal Engineer (Architect) you will be responsible for ensuring that our SaaS services are designed and built with the highest level of availability and resiliency in mind. You will collaborate with other engineering teams responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing SaaS Services and underlying platform in a distributed computing environment.

The ideal candidate will be technically strong and must understand large‑scale distributed systems. This role will drive the technical architecture of our service continuity solutions, contribute to the product strategy, and contribute to the development of next generation availability and resiliency features for Oracle's SaaS cloud environment.

Career Level:

IC5

• MS/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
• 10+ years experience in system/application architecture/design along with database, infrastructure and networking experience
• 6+ years software development experience in a distributed cloud engineering environment
• Strong experience and detailed technical knowledge in SaaS or PaaS engineering
• Experience in building large scale applications and services
• Strong development experience in Java, C++, or similar OO languages
• Experience with containers (Dockers, Kubernetes) and other cloud native components
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages for developing automations
• Experience in developing resilient and fault tolerant systems
• Experience working with multiple engineering teams across organizations
• Written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear, concise manner to all audiences
• Comfortably in a collaborative, agile development environment.

• Hands‑on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (Examples: AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle)
• Understanding of distributed computing and cloud‑based platforms
• Understanding of cross‑functional platform feature areas in cloud platforms
• Experience and understanding of cloud infrastructure services, regions, and multi‑AD designs
• Good customer & executive communication skills and the ability to work well in a team environment

Certain US customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

US:
Hiring Range: 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.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including…