Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle • Nashville, TN

9d • $146,300 - $306,400

About The Position

As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering, you will lead a team responsible for building and operating core services within Oracle’s Fleet Management and Workload Orchestration platform. The role combines technical judgment and people leadership to deliver reliable distributed systems, improve engineering execution, and develop a high-performing team. You will partner with architects, peer engineering managers, and networking service teams to translate platform priorities into technical designs and delivery plans.

You will own assigned services from design and delivery through production operation, and guide your team in automating fleet lifecycle operations, workload placement, deployments, and capacity expansion. The position also includes oversight of scalability, reliability, performance, correctness, security, operational readiness, incident response, and infrastructure change management. You will balance feature delivery, operational needs, and technical debt while improving productivity through automation, developer tooling, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

The stated U.S. hiring range is $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. The role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle describes its benefits package as including health and insurance coverage, retirement savings, paid leave, and other benefits.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating distributed systems or cloud infrastructure services.
• At least 3 years of engineering management experience, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and delivery ownership.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to guide architecture and evaluate tradeoffs involving availability, consistency, performance, and operational complexity.
• Demonstrated experience owning software delivery from requirements and design through deployment and ongoing production operation.
• Track record of developing engineers, providing actionable feedback, and building effective engineering teams.
• Experience with production operations, including monitoring, incident management, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate delivery across engineering teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical decisions, delivery risks, and tradeoffs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with fleet management, workload scheduling or placement, infrastructure orchestration, or automated provisioning.
• Experience developing shared platforms used by multiple engineering teams.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, virtualized infrastructure, and the operational needs of networking services.
• Experience with distributed workflows, state reconciliation, failure recovery, and safe infrastructure changes.
• Experience improving deployment safety, service reliability, infrastructure utilization, or operational efficiency through measurable engineering initiatives.
• Familiarity with OCI or comparable large-scale cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop software engineers; set expectations and support performance and career growth.
• Own the design, delivery, and production operation of assigned services within the Fleet Management and Workload Orchestration platform.
• Translate platform objectives into a team roadmap, milestones, and execution plans; manage priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Guide technical design and implementation decisions with senior engineers and architects, addressing scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Deliver capabilities that automate fleet lifecycle operations, workload placement, deployments, and capacity expansion within the team’s area of ownership.
• Establish development practices through design and code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and safe rollout and rollback procedures.
• Own operational readiness and service health, including observability, on-call practices, incident response, and corrective actions.
• Improve engineering productivity through automation, developer tooling, and effective use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Partner with OCI Networking and Infrastructure teams to clarify requirements, coordinate integrations, and support adoption of shared platform services.
• Balance feature delivery, operational needs, and technical debt while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Manage development and implementation of scalable distributed systems and components, including distributed state management, optimization, and performance and load testing.
• Guide fault-tolerant system design, including redundancy, replication, failover, disruption handling, load-shedding, throttling, rate-limiting, and adherence to SLOs.
• Oversee KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting to monitor system performance and health.
• Oversee functional and correctness requirements, complex test scenarios such as fault-injection and brown-out testing, and data replication and synchronization approaches.
• Guide proactive troubleshooting and issue resolution; oversee operational readiness and approve operational support rotation schedules.
• Oversee security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls; direct remediation of security gaps and ensure compliance documentation.
• Oversee automation scripts and tools, including IaC, and guide change management for patching, updates, and rollbacks.

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 employee eligibility and position status.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior