Senior Director Software Development (OCI-Compute)

Oracle•Seattle, WA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

As a senior director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture. Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 10 years of software engineering or related experience. We offer outstanding opportunities for inquisitive, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to tackle difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications. Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with outstanding, foundational cloud networking services. http://cloud.oracle.com/compute Platform owns the core services that orchestrate the cloud customer lifecycle, and we provide consistent and flexible governance controls for our customers across OCI’s portfolio of services. To do this we build and operate world-class mission-critical distributed tier-0/1 services. We own our roadmap, and the modernization of the commercial cloud experience for Oracle customers. If the challenge of building a public cloud from ground up interests you, then you would want to talk to us. Platform is looking for a software development director with cloud experience to join our development team. As a Director of Development you will own and manage a team of software engineers and software development managers responsible for software architecture and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should be comfortable with low level operating systems development, be able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and higher level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn. This role will drive major aspects of our product definition, contribute to the product strategy of our solutions, and contribute to the development and evolution of the Platform services. Come build the state of the art IaaS network starting from the ground floor.

Requirements

BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
10 years of software engineering or related experience.
7+ years of management experience in enterprise software, with management of managers.
10+ years of experience with applications development with 2+ years in large scale distributed applications / web services.
Proficient at programming in Java, Python.
Bachelors in computer science and Engineering or related engineering fields.

Nice To Haves

Prior development experience with Metering service in Cloud or experience with Data Pipelines.
Masters / PhD degree in Computer Science or related engineering fields.

Responsibilities

Manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications.
Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.
Assist in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives.
Own and manage a team of software engineers and software development managers responsible for software architecture and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.
Drive major aspects of our product definition, contribute to the product strategy of our solutions, and contribute to the development and evolution of the Platform services.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance