Software Development Senior Manager (OCI)

Oracle•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is redefining the cloud for the world’s largest enterprises. We operate with the agility and innovation of a startup while delivering the scale, security, and reliability expected from one of the world’s leading technology companies. OCI powers mission-critical workloads for customers globally, offering a comprehensive cloud platform built for high performance, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade reliability. Our engineering culture is grounded in OCI Values — emphasizing integrity, inclusion, innovation, customer focus, and operational excellence. We invest deeply in our people and foster an environment where diverse perspectives, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning drive breakthrough results. At OCI, you’ll work alongside exceptional engineers solving some of the most complex distributed systems challenges at cloud scale. The OCI Limits Team owns the foundational platform that manages service limits, quotas, and capacity governance across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The team enables customers and internal OCI services to scale reliably and securely by providing automated limit management, quota enforcement, and high-scale control plane integrations. We work closely with service teams across OCI to support rapid cloud growth, operational stability, and enterprise-grade resource governance. The organization operates highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly impact customer onboarding, expansion, and cloud consumption experiences.

Requirements

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
5+ years of engineering management experience leading software development teams.
7+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Strong experience with Java, Go, C++, or C, along with scripting languages such as Python.
Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability, networking, operating systems, and service-oriented architectures.
Experience building and operating highly available, cloud-native services.
Strong knowledge of databases, storage systems, and distributed persistence technologies.
Experience driving operational excellence, observability, performance tuning, and incident response.
Proven ability to recruit, grow, and retain high-performing engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing and operating services on public cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience building multi-tenant infrastructure platforms or cloud control plane services.
Familiarity with large-scale quota management, resource governance, or capacity management systems.
Experience leading teams responsible for mission-critical infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing software engineering team responsible for OCI services.
Own the delivery, availability, scalability, and operational excellence of mission-critical OCI services.
Drive technical strategy, architecture decisions, and execution for distributed cloud services operating at massive scale.
Partner across OCI organizations to deliver foundational platform capabilities supporting customer growth and cloud expansion.
Establish engineering best practices around service reliability, automation, observability, and operational readiness.
Mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers through coaching, performance management, and career development.
Manage roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional coordination.
Lead teams operating large-scale, highly available systems with a strong focus on resiliency, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
Champion Agile development methodologies and foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational ownership.
Participate in incident management, customer escalations, and operational reviews as needed.
Designing systems capable of handling exponentially increasing traffic and service growth.
Improving scalability, availability, and performance of globally distributed services.
Building resilient systems that can withstand regional outages and dependency failures.
Balancing rapid feature delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
Driving architectural simplification while maintaining operational excellence.
Enabling OCI service teams and customers to scale seamlessly and securely.
Navigate complex technical trade-offs, execute decisively, and build systems that operate reliably at cloud scale.

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 is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for 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
Relocation Assistance provided