Software Development Director

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) delivers mission-critical applications for top tier enterprises around the world. Our cloud offers unmatched hyper-scale, multi-tenant services deployed in more than 50 regions worldwide. OCI is expanding its mission beyond the traditional boundaries of public cloud to include dedicated, hybrid and multi cloud, edge computing, and more. At Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization, our mission is to support customer choice, transparency, and value when it comes to cloud infrastructure. We’re embarking on ambitious new initiatives such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes. We are hoping to enhance engineering efficiency by concentrating our expertise on building low level systems with high performance that can be adopted by our core cloud services across OCI. For this role, we are looking for an engineering leader to build the teams to deliver a key-value store that supports billions of keys and millions of requests per second at sub-millisecond latencies. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver a new Tier 0 service from scratch and work with senior architects and leaders at OCI. We are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, diverse people, and given the autonomy as well as support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged. Who are we looking for? You’ve built and operated high-scale cloud infrastructure services and understand how to continuously improve the technology and grow the business. You have experience working in prior mission critical database or storage services. You have built, grew and managed high performing teams, and owned design, delivery, and operations of a prominent infrastructure services. You are technically strong and have worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and resilient. You can balance feature delivery with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for your engineers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements. You know how to wear the hats of an engineering leader, product owner and project manager at the same time and get a lot done daily. Responsibilities Define technical, product, operational and organizational strategy for a public cloud service. Lead a diverse, distributed team. Instill and continuously improve the culture of accountability, integrity, and high professional bar. Effectively communicate with anyone in the organization, from engineers to executive management. Stay abreast of known vulnerabilities that can impact our cloud and customers and mitigate early. Guide and mentor teams through architecture and security reviews. Establish methodologies to drive continuous improvement in the engineering organization through mentoring, developing, and coaching. Qualifications Minimum of 3+ years at a senior management level. 5+ years of relevant distributed systems or cloud services experiences. BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree. Strong business and communication skills. Exceptional leadership and people management skills. Experience with Storage Systems or Database development Solid understanding of core cloud infrastructure, such as compute, virtual networking and storage. Strong distributed systems architecture and design skills. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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