Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building large-scale AI clusters and GPU-focused cloud infrastructure. The Director will lead software teams responsible for 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 for AI workloads. The role leads multiple teams through senior managers and lead developers, sets priorities and expectations, and partners with cross-functional teams to improve AI infrastructure and customer experience. The Director owns solutions to scale and optimize the GPU control plane, builds effective engineering teams, defines the organizational roadmap and goals, and tracks progress against commitments. The role develops senior managers and principal developers, promotes modern engineering practices, prioritizes customer needs, and ensures solutions are modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, monitored, compliant, and reusable. It provides strategic oversight for scalable distributed systems, fault tolerance, service disruption handling, production diagnosis, multi-tenant security, and cloud infrastructure automation.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 10 years of software development experience using programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, Go, or Rust.
At least 5 years of people management or leadership experience while working on cross-functional projects.
At least 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, improving customer experience and workload performance.
Build high-performing engineering teams, create the organizational 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 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.
Set strategies across teams for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including distributed state management.
Oversee architecture for fault-tolerant systems and implementation of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
Set direction for systems handling service disruptions, including decisions involving consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Provide strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems.
Guide architecture of security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
Guide teams in developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools, including Infrastructure as Code, to manage cloud infrastructure.