Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle•Seattle, WA

About The Position

We’re looking for a hands-on leader with expertise and passion leading engineering teams, solving difficult problems in distributed systems, and creating a secure environment for our customers. At Oracle you can build new teams and systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives. A leader at any level can have significant technical and business impact. This is a new ground-up effort to build Infrastructure-as-a-Service that operates at a 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 best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at a relatively early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives.

Requirements

Led or managed teams working with NIC DPU's based on P4 and/or DOCA.
3+ years experience of leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
5+ years of Software Engineer experience.
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Hands-on ability to Architect, design, and oversee development & implementation of features
Experience with C/C++ and Python.
Experience with Linux Kernel Modules and device drivers.
Strong Network Protocols, tools and troubleshooting experience.
Debugging with tools such as gdb and Coredump analysis.
Unit test, Feature test and system test planning, execution and automation.
Resolving customer issues and handling escalations.
Experience deploying code within change management procedures
Understanding of service KPI metrics, alarms, logging, and system health
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one services with associated oncall responsibilities.
Experience with mentoring and growing engineers building network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Service Accountability –You will lead a team whose mission is to build core network infrastructure that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable.
Ownership Scope – You own the performance of the service as it relates to the the networking dataplane as well as the roadmap to determine the key features required by our customers and partner teams.
Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service(s) you own. We are subject matter experts, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of our service stack, such as: Degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors scaling requirements and patterns resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup/restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested, and maintained
Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to help automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.
Incidence Management - You will own and respond to customer incidents within the agreed-upon SLAs. You will manage the on-call for your services.
Technical Experts - You will have a deep understanding of service topology and the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving reliability improvements in the services you engage with.
Cross-team collaboration – You will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to senior leadership

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
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