Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering
About The Position
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building GPU-focused cloud infrastructure for large-scale AI workloads. The Director will lead software teams developing the GPU control plane and scaling AI infrastructure, including customer APIs and workflows for managing bare-metal GPU capacity, integrating new products, configuring NVLink domains, managing compute clusters, and handling repairs and firmware. The role sets priorities and expectations for multiple teams led by senior managers and lead developers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to improve infrastructure and customer experience. The Director owns solutions to scale and optimize the GPU control plane, builds high-performing engineering teams, establishes organizational roadmaps and goals, and tracks progress against commitments. The role develops senior managers and principal developers, promotes modern engineering practices, and prioritizes work around customer needs. It provides strategic direction across teams on the architecture, security, reliability, monitoring, fault tolerance, distributed systems, service-disruption handling, production diagnosis, and infrastructure automation. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer and provides accessibility accommodations during the employment process.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 10 years of experience in software development using programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, Go, or Rust.
- 5 years of experience in people management or a leadership role while working on cross-functional projects.
- 5 years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems, services, and infrastructure.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of servers.
- Experience scheduling high-performance workloads on Kubernetes or Slurm.
Responsibilities
- Own and build solutions to scale and optimize the GPU control plane to improve customer experience and workload performance on AI infrastructure.
- Build high-performing engineering teams, create the organization roadmap, define SMART goals, and track progress against committed OKRs and milestones.
- Develop senior managers and principal developers and promote modern software engineering practices, including data- and telemetry-informed decisions, well-defined interfaces, design reviews, integration testing, and active production monitoring.
- Prioritize organizational work with a focus on customer issues and requirements.
- Ensure team solutions are well-defined, modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, compliant, and reusable.
- Implement strategies across teams for the architecture and design of interdependent, scalable distributed systems, including distributed state management tools.
- Provide strategic oversight for fault-tolerant interdependent systems and in-service updates, including redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
- Set direction for systems that handle service disruptions, including decisions involving consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
- Provide strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems.
- Guide teams in architecting security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
- Guide teams in developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools, such as Infrastructure as Code, to manage cloud infrastructure.
- Lead software teams developing GPU control plane and AI infrastructure scaling capabilities, including customer APIs and workflows for GPU capacity, new product integration, NVLink domains, compute clusters, repairs, and firmware.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance AI infrastructure and customer experience.
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 vacation, depending on eligibility and position.
- 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick leave.
- Paid parental leave.
- Adoption assistance.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Financial planning and group legal benefits.
- Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
- Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
