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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Architect: Workflow Orchestration - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Tallahassee, FL, United States - **Salary:** $169,800.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Cloud Services, Workflow Management Systems, Data Logging, Transaction Processing (Computing), Concurrency, Event Driven Architecture, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - **Published:** July 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/B224658DCAE54C3BB44FEB9A25366CB4/job/ ## About the Role * Extensive experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems. * Strong expertise in high-performance backend architecture, distributed transactions, concurrency, and fault-tolerant systems. * Experience building or evolving foundational infrastructure platforms that operate at cloud scale. * Demonstrated ability to influence architecture across multiple engineering teams and organizations. * Proven technical leadership on complex, business-critical systems., * Experience with workflow orchestration platforms or distributed workflow engines. * Familiarity with write-ahead logging (WAL), storage engines, transaction processing, or database internals. * Experience with high-throughput messaging, event-driven architectures, or distributed coordination systems. * Background working on hyperscale cloud infrastructure or similarly large-scale distributed platforms. ## Description We're looking for an experienced Software Architect to lead the evolution of one of OCI's most critical platform services-a high-scale workflow orchestration engine responsible for coordinating the creation of cloud resources across compute, storage, networking, and other foundational services. Every time an OCI customer provisions a resource, dozens of distributed operations must execute reliably and consistently. Our Workflow platform orchestrates these transactions, ensuring successful provisioning while automatically recovering and rolling back failures when necessary. Today, this platform processes tens of billions of transactions annually and serves as a foundational dependency across OCI. As cloud adoption accelerates, we're building the next generation of this system to deliver significantly greater scale, performance, resiliency, and multi-tenant capabilities. This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture of a foundational cloud service that will shape the future of OCI. Responsibilities * Lead the architectural vision and technical direction for OCI's next-generation workflow orchestration platform. * Design highly scalable distributed systems capable of supporting billions of high-throughput transactions. * Partner with engineering leaders across Compute, Storage, Networking, and other OCI organizations to build a platform that serves the needs of the broader cloud ecosystem. * Drive architecture decisions around consistency, fault tolerance, transaction management, durability, and performance. * Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership across a rapidly growing organization. * Evaluate emerging technologies while determining where custom platform innovation provides strategic advantage. ## Related Videos - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1520-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Crypto-secure Data Management with In-Database Blockchain](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/632-crypto-secure-data-management-with-in-database-blockchain) - [Kubernetes and Microservices with Multi-Model Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/382-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-multi-model-databases) - [Concurrency with Go](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/191-concurrency-with-go) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Structured Concurrency in Practice: CoroutineScope vs StructuredTaskScope](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100349-structured-concurrency-in-practice-coroutinescope-vs-structuredtaskscope) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [Why Event-Driven Architecture Isn’t About Speed (and When You Actually Need It)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/745-why-event-driven-architecture-isn-t-about-speed-and-when-you-actually-need-it) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [What Makes WeAreDevelopers World Congress Different From Every Other Tech Event?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/701-what-makes-wearedevelopers-world-congress-different-from-every-other-tech-event) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)