Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle • Nashville, TN

18h

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds and operates large-scale, integrated cloud services in a distributed, multi-tenant environment. The OCI Identity team develops foundational, customer-facing cloud identity capabilities. The Senior Manager of Development will own and manage a team of software engineers and software development managers responsible for architecture and development for major OCI components. The role requires both hands-on technical depth, including comfort with low-level operating systems development and broad systems interactions, and the ability to guide teams working across the technology stack.

The position will drive major aspects of product definition, contribute to product strategy, and help develop next-generation Identity capabilities for OCI. The manager will lead software design, development, testing, debugging, and delivery; guide architectural decisions and improvements; coordinate planning and execution across functional areas; and work with senior leaders and stakeholders to align engineering and business objectives. The role also includes recruiting, coaching, and developing engineers while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated experience leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives.
• Ability to lead delivery of backend services, platform capabilities, infrastructure, workflow automation, operational tooling, and related enterprise-scale solutions.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Experience with cloud-native development and operations.
• Strong understanding of IAM, authorization, secure service-to-service communication, and secure software development and delivery practices.
• Experience building or supporting developer tooling, test automation, release and deployment tooling, observability solutions, or operational dashboards.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, operations, security, infrastructure, and other functions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Proficiency in Java and Python.
• Comfort with low-level operating systems development and the ability to architect broad systems interactions and work hands-on across the stack.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP is also relevant.
• Familiarity with Go, C#, or other enterprise software development languages.
• Experience with modern engineering practices, including automation and AI-assisted software development and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a software engineering team responsible for designing, developing, debugging, testing, and delivering software applications, operating systems, databases, tools, and platform components.
• Apply software architecture and engineering practices to guide development and ensure solutions align with design specifications and standards.
• Oversee enhancements to existing software architectures and identify opportunities to improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, and overall design.
• Manage activities across multiple functional areas, including operational planning and execution aligned with corporate objectives and standards.
• Develop and contribute to short-, medium-, and long-term plans that support organizational and strategic objectives.
• Partner across functional areas and engage with senior management and executives to align priorities, address dependencies, and achieve business and engineering objectives.
• Provide technical and organizational leadership and use analytical judgment to resolve complex engineering and product development challenges.
• Influence decisions and build stakeholder alignment, including in complex or sensitive situations.
• Recruit, coach, develop, and manage engineers, fostering accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Drive major aspects of product definition, contribute to product strategy, and contribute to next-generation OCI Identity capabilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees and eligible family members.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Paid time off, including flexible or accrued vacation depending on eligibility and position.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshing annually, 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.
• May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

What This Job Offers

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