Director, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Director to lead and scale the Identity Platform engineering organization within OCI Identity and Cryptography. The role defines technical strategy, guides architecture and platform innovation, and builds reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure capabilities. The director leads engineering teams and managers, promotes operational excellence, automation, AI-enabled development, and modern engineering practices, and works across OCI organizations to deliver foundational identity platform services. Relocation to Nashville, Tennessee, is required. The director leads organizational planning, staffing, execution, and delivery across strategic initiatives while balancing customer commitments, operational needs, and long-term platform investments. The role sets the platform roadmap and develops standardized capabilities for deploying, operating, and scaling OCI Identity services. It also provides technical leadership, mentors engineering managers and technical leaders, establishes engineering standards, and drives effective collaboration across OCI Identity and OCI Infrastructure. The position has strategic oversight of system reliability, performance, correctness, availability, incident management, security and compliance, and automation and change management. This includes guiding fault-tolerant architectures and reliability practices; setting direction for KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting; promoting formal verification and data integrity; directing incident response and root-cause investigations; advancing security controls and compliance; and aligning infrastructure automation and change-management practices.

Requirements

Proven ability to lead engineering teams and managers and execute complex, cross-functional initiatives at cloud scale.
Strong technical leadership.
Deep expertise in distributed systems.
Ability to define technical strategy and guide architecture for reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Experience with operational excellence, automation, and modern engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow the engineering organization responsible for Identity Platform within OCI Identity and Cryptography.
Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for the platform.
Build standardized platform capabilities that simplify deployment, operation, and scaling of OCI Identity services across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Own organizational planning, execution, staffing, and delivery across multiple strategic initiatives while balancing customer commitments, operational excellence, and long-term platform investments.
Drive engineering effectiveness through modern software engineering practices, automation, AI-enabled engineering, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
Guide architecture, establish engineering standards, mentor engineering managers and technical leaders, and raise engineering quality.
Deliver reliable, scalable, and observable platform services with a focus on operational excellence, automation, and reliability engineering.
Partner across OCI Identity and OCI Infrastructure to align roadmaps, influence platform strategy, and deliver foundational cloud capabilities.
Oversee fault-tolerant system architecture, including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, service disruption handling, durability, and service-level objectives.
Set strategies for KPIs and telemetry, and direct the creation and customization of dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor system health.
Guide methods for verifying system correctness and oversee data replication and synchronization practices to maintain data integrity and availability.
Direct operational troubleshooting and incident management, including readiness protocols, standard operating procedures, complex incident response, and root-cause investigations.
Guide security architecture for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls; oversee remediation of security gaps and infrastructure compliance documentation.
Guide infrastructure automation, including scripts and Infrastructure as Code, and align change-management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.