Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle•Nashville, TN

26d•$120,000 - $306,400•Onsite

About The Position

OCI is transforming the developer platform experience. We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is an opportunity to lead a talented engineering team at the center of OCI’s next phase of growth. As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will lead a first-line engineering team building reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform. You will create the conditions for your team to deliver meaningful customer impact, grow engineers and technical leaders, and help establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.
Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.
Experience leading teams that design, build, and operate scalable, highly available distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.
Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.
Demonstrated people leadership: you can hire and develop talent, set direction, manage execution, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering disciplines, product, and senior stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.
Cloud-native systems, multi-tenant services, control planes, workflow orchestration, or release engineering.
Site reliability engineering, production incident management, observability, capacity planning, or performance engineering.
Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.
AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

Lead a first-line engineering team building reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform.
Create the conditions for your team to deliver meaningful customer impact.
Grow engineers and technical leaders.
Help establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.