Principal Architect

Oracle • Redwood City, CA

2h • $169,800 - $355,400

About The Position

Oracle is seeking a Principal Architect to improve product quality by strengthening testing processes and ensuring tests cover key customer use cases. The role bridges customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to understand how Oracle Database is deployed and used in production, then uses those insights to shape testing priorities and improve coverage of real-world workloads.

The position serves as a subject matter expert on enterprise Oracle Database deployments and translates customer deployment patterns into quality initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, availability, and performance. It establishes customer engagement and feedback mechanisms, analyzes telemetry and support trends, and develops testing strategies that represent customer environments across on-premises, OCI, and hybrid deployments. The role also defines quality metrics and dashboards and seeks improvements to testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of experience in software quality engineering, database engineering, software architecture, or related technical leadership roles.
• Deep expertise with Oracle Database technologies and enterprise database deployments.
• Strong understanding of Oracle Database customer environments, operational practices, and enterprise workloads.
• Experience designing or leading functional, performance, scalability, stress, and reliability testing for enterprise software.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into testing priorities.
• Experience working across Development, QA, Sustaining Engineering, and customer-facing organizations.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to identify trends from customer data, telemetry, and support feedback.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Oracle Database internals and enterprise features such as RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, ASM, Exadata, GoldenGate, and OCI Database Services.
• Experience analyzing customer telemetry, support data, benchmark workloads, or production performance trends.

Responsibilities

• Become the subject matter expert on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database across enterprise environments.
• Establish customer advisory forums, internal working groups, and data-driven feedback channels to capture deployment patterns, operational pain points, and emerging workloads.
• Analyze customer telemetry, support trends, benchmark workloads, and field feedback to identify testing gaps and opportunities.
• Translate customer usage patterns into improved functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing.
• Drive Oracle Database-specific testing strategies representing customer deployments across on-premises, OCI, and hybrid environments.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.
• Build ongoing mechanisms to understand customer deployments, workloads, upgrade strategies, operational practices, and pain points at an architectural level.
• Develop relationships across Sustaining Engineering and with strategic customers.
• Convert customer insights into actionable improvements in testing strategy and product quality.
• Define testing priorities based on real Oracle Database customer workloads.
• Improve functional, stress, performance, high-availability, upgrade, and scalability testing using production-inspired scenarios.
• Ensure testing reflects Oracle-specific architectures, including RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, Exadata, OCI, Autonomous Database integrations, and hybrid deployments where applicable.
• Define meaningful quality metrics and dashboards.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible or accrued paid vacation, depending on employee eligibility and position.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour maximum.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed