Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Seattle, WA

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a senior, technically skilled people leader to manage and grow a collaborative engineering team. The role offers the opportunity to own and build virtual networking services that support multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud applications, with a focus on performance, scale, and reliability. The Senior Manager will lead a software development team designing, developing, deploying, and operating virtual networking services across OCI’s global enterprise cloud. Potential areas of leadership include virtual routing and gateways. The position requires technical depth, architectural knowledge, distributed systems experience, and strong people and process management skills. The Senior Manager is expected to stay close to the projects they manage and value simplicity, scale, and reliability while working in a collaborative, agile environment. The role oversees system scalability, reliability, performance, and correctness; operational troubleshooting and incident management; compliance and security; automation and change management; project planning and execution; cross-functional partnerships; problem solving; continuous learning and improvement; and team performance and development. The stated U.S. hiring range is $146,300 to $306,400 per annum. The position may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle also describes a comprehensive benefits package. U.S.-based employees must complete identity verification involving collection and processing of biometric information, subject to possible accommodation following an individualized assessment.

Requirements

10 or more years of experience in software development.
2 or more years of experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
5 or more years of experience leading engineering teams.
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Demonstrated expertise in cloud engineering, networking, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated ability to identify and recruit strong engineering talent.
Ability to scale systems sustainably through tooling and automation.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to audiences including senior leadership.
Results-driven approach and ability to thrive in an agile, collaborative, startup-mode development environment amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
Technical depth, architectural knowledge, distributed systems experience, and strong people and process management skills.

Responsibilities

Lead a software development team that designs, develops, deploys, and operates virtual networking services across OCI’s global enterprise cloud, potentially including virtual routing and gateways.
Manage development and implementation of scalable distributed systems and components across multiple teams, including effective use of distributed state management tools.
Oversee code and system optimization for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements, guide teams in defining and meeting scalability requirements, manage data plane platform use, and ensure accurate performance and load testing.
Manage strategies for fault-tolerant systems that can withstand in-service updates, including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, and handling service disruptions.
Lead approaches for handling network unreliability, including load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting; guide teams in designing durable systems that meet service level objectives.
Oversee definition of performance indicators and telemetry, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting for system health.
Oversee functional and correctness requirements, complex test scenarios such as fault injection and brownouts, and data replication and synchronization strategies.
Guide teams in diagnosing, debugging, and resolving operational issues; ensure operational readiness and customer-supporting troubleshooting without requiring maintenance windows; approve operational support rotation schedules.
Oversee security measures for multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls; direct security remediation and ensure infrastructure documentation and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
Oversee automation scripts and tools, including Infrastructure as Code, and guide change management for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
Manage medium- to large-scale projects across teams, tracking timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable; set priorities and guide adjustments to plans as circumstances change.
Drive cross-functional partnerships and shared objectives, coach team members in strategic relationships, and promote inclusion by seeking and listening to diverse perspectives.
Provide direction on complex operational and technical issues, analyze complex information, and review critical or unresolved issues to help teams identify solutions.
Model continuous learning, integrate industry best practices into planning, use feedback to improve skills, identify team skill gaps, and support learning and knowledge sharing.
Drive collaboration to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows, and encourage feedback and alternative approaches.
Provide performance feedback and coaching, discuss development goals, support career development, align individual goals with organizational goals, and manage talent acquisition and development activities.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
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 type.
11 paid holidays.
Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually, with carryover up to a maximum of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave.
Adoption assistance.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Financial planning and group legal benefits.
Voluntary benefits, including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.
Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.