Sr. Director, Engineering - OCI Storage Innovation

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced engineering executive to lead the next evolution of its Storage organization. This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's most strategically important engineering organizations during a period of rapid transformation. This leader will oversee engineering teams responsible for maintaining production services, completing several large multi-year strategic initiatives, and incubating the next generation of storage technologies. You'll help define how cloud storage evolves to support AI, agentic computing, and the next generation of enterprise applications while leading teams responsible for services that operate at global scale. The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems with a proven ability to build high-performing engineering organizations, execute large-scale transformations, and inspire teams to solve some of cloud computing's most complex infrastructure challenges. At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of cloud infrastructure for enterprises around the world. We combine the agility of a startup with the scale, security, and customer focus of one of the world's largest technology companies. Storage is a foundational service within OCI and is undergoing significant transformation. As AI, agentic computing, and next-generation cloud workloads reshape how data is stored, accessed, and managed, Oracle is investing heavily in reimagining the storage platform for the future. This is an opportunity to lead engineering at the center of that transformation and influence technology that supports both Oracle's largest enterprise customers and the broader OCI ecosystem.

Requirements

Proven success leading engineering organizations responsible for large-scale distributed systems with a focus lower in the technology stack.
Experience managing organizations of 50+ engineers , with demonstrated success building and developing engineering leaders.
Experience leading large-scale system modernization or architectural refactoring initiatives.
Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
Experience solving complex infrastructure challenges involving large-scale data movement, recovery, throttling, caching, and system reliability.
Demonstrated ability to balance execution of existing production workloads while investing in future platform innovation.
Experience leading engineering organizations within major cloud providers such as OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Nice To Haves

Deliver key milestones across multiple strategic infrastructure initiatives while maintaining operational excellence.
Improve organizational scalability, engineering efficiency, and technical execution.
Establish a clear vision for the next generation of OCI Storage architecture and build momentum behind future product incubation efforts.
Develop and retain a high-performing engineering leadership team capable of supporting Oracle's continued cloud growth.

Responsibilities

Lead a large, geographically distributed engineering organization responsible for OCI Storage innovation.
Ensuring the reliability and continuous improvement of existing production systems.
Delivering several large-scale, multi-year strategic infrastructure initiatives.
Building new product incubations that will shape the future of OCI Storage.
Drive the evolution of next-generation storage platforms designed to scale across Oracle's global cloud infrastructure.
Lead architectural decisions involving distributed systems, large-scale data movement, caching strategies, latency optimization, scalability, cost efficiency, and durability versus availability tradeoffs.
Create organizational capacity that enables engineering teams to continue innovating while maintaining operational excellence.
Partner closely with engineering leaders across OCI to define long-term technical strategy and execution.
Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering leaders and distributed teams while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence.

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