Director, Software Development

We are looking for an energetic, engaged and technically strong Senior Manager of Software development to lead the engineering team for data plane and management plane in Block Storage Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Components include IO path, backup, durability, performance, availability and other aspects of the service. As one of the leaders of the service, you will be driving the ultimate success and adoption of the product.

As a Senior Manager of Software Development, you will lead the engineering team and work with architects to identify and deliver new features and operate the service at massive scale. You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. Having a strong experience in managing medium sized teams, domain expertise in one of these areas (storage, distributed systems, compute/networking) is mandatory. Experience in handling operations of a cloud deployed service, any experience in rolling out cloud solutions are desirable. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative environment, and be excited to learn. You should have a good understanding of the value of modern agile and agile development processes, the ability to adapt and manage a team through change, and fostering a healthy team dynamic and culture.

Career Level - M3

About OCI

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer s business critical applications.

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challengesAre you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systemsIf so, then Oracles Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. Were looking for strong technical leaders with backgrounds in distributed systems and storage to help build a highly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment on a massive scale.

You will never be bored in this job. We need people with a passion towards customer satisfaction and expertise in distributed systems, storage, and highly available services. How will we build thisIt could be up to you but we apply solid engineering and design principles to develop world-class, highly available services.

We are still at an early stage and an entrepreneurial, fast-paced mentality is critical for success in this position: a passionate can-do attitude, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to collaborate while acting, as a thought leader in your area of expertise will serve you well on Oracles Cloud Infrastructure Team. Does this sound like a challenge youre ready for

Oracle s Cloud Infrastructure team is building second-generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate in a broadly-distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

Our mission is to provide our customers with best-in-class compute, networking, and storage services to build their businesses on our cloud.

Job Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced leader who enjoys building complex, highly technical products and service from ground up. As a member of the Object Storage team, you will help us define the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.

• Providing leadership, direction, and strategy for a growing team.
• Establishing and developing the organisational capacity needed to execute on strategy.
• Mentoring and developing junior engineers to senior levels.
• Successfully leading a local team as part of a larger geographically distributed organization.
• Delivering large-scale project on-time with the high quality.
• Overseeing operational teams supporting products in production under customer load.
• Working with OCI leadership, senior engineers, program managers, and product managers to develop compelling products and services that meet customer needs.
• Providing guidance and constructive feedback to team members and other stakeholders.
• Raising the bar for product quality and customer experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years in Engineering Management leading agile teams on design, development, and delivery of highly scalable products.
• Strong, demonstrable track record for hiring and retaining top-tier talent.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate a vision and get people invested in success.
• Exposure to the process and nuances of operationalising and supporting products and services used by thousands of customers simultaneously.
• Ability to create, drive and evangelize cross-team processes and achieve org-wide impact.
• Knowledge of C++, Java programming language and its ecosystem.
• Good understanding of Microservice based architectures, Distributed systems, Storage systems and Cloud.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams in cloud computing, enterprise software, or fast-paced start-ups is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, databases, storage and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with build automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment tools.