Architect, Lightweight Infrastructure

Job Description

Business Overview

This organization within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) addresses two core domains : the development of data plane primitives and the creation of a centralized service platform for infrastructure management. The team tackles complex challenges in distributed systems and state persistence, providing high-throughput solutions to support a rapidly expanding global cloud footprint. Core priorities include enhancing efficiency in infrastructure management and reducing engineering and hardware costs by establishing a unified platform leveraging cutting-edge hypervisor and virtualization technologies.

About the role

This role reports directly to SVP, Lucas Kreger, the technical advisor for OCI. You'll collaborate closely with lead engineers, senior architects, and business leaders to build foundational platform components that enable the next generation of cloud infrastructure. As an Architect of Lightweight Serverless Infrastructure, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and delivering next-generation infrastructure systems to support high-performance, secure, and scalable cloud-native workloads. You'll lead architectural direction while remaining deeply engaged in the hands-on development and integration of a robust cluster management system. A critical part of the role includes developing and operationalizing a virtualization and hypervisor strategy to support OCI's centralized infrastructure platform. While not responsible for building a new hypervisor from scratch, you'll evaluate available solutions, guide integration, and optimize them to support secure multi-tenancy, efficient workload isolation, and performance at global cloud scale.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Lead the architectural design and integration of a lightweight, scalable, and secure infrastructure platform that supports cloud-native and serverless workloads

Work across multiple domains-virtualization, Linux internals, container networking (CNI), cloud virtual networking, distributed storage, security, workload orchestration, and identity-to create robust infrastructure primitives with a low dependency posture

Evaluate, customize, and optimize hypervisor and virtualization technologies to support secure workload isolation and efficient multitenancy

Develop and implement system components that solve challenges in distributed systems and state persistence across high-throughput data plane services

Guide platform strategy by staying hands-on during early development phases, and transition into broader leadership, mentoring, and strategic planning

Collaborate with senior engineers and product leadership to define and evolve the virtualization, container runtime, and orchestration layers of OCI infrastructure

Create guardrails, operational best practices, and platform reliability strategies to support global expansion and scale

Monitor advancements in virtualization, kernel-level networking, and distributed orchestration to inform long-term technical direction

B asic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field

Deep expertise in virtualization platforms and hypervisor technologies, including evaluation, tuning, and optimization

Significant experience developing or integrating container runtimes and strong familiarity with container networking standards such as CNI

Advanced knowledge of low-level system programming (C++, Rust, GoLang),and systems-level debugging

Background in building and operating scalable, distributed systems and infrastructure platforms

Deep understanding of Linux internals, Linux networking, and resource management technologies

Prior involvement in designing and implementing large-scale cluster orchestration systems or in-house infrastructure management tools

Experience with lightweight virtualization technologies suitable for serverless environments

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive experience developing and operating services on public clouds such as Oracle Cloud, AWS, or Azure

Strong understanding of cloud virtual networking, identity management, and observability systems

Hands-on experience with eBPF for programmable kernel-level networking and security (e.g., via Cilium, Envoy)

In-depth knowledge of Linux virtualization technologies such as KVM, QEMU, LXC, libvirt, and cgroups

Exposure to modern cluster management and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or in-house equivalents

Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence platform direction through technical depth and practical experience

Disclaimer :

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

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

US : Hiring Range in USD from : $161,700 to $338,500 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 - IC6

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