Software Development Snr Director

Lead the org with first level management team and senior ICs. Support the teams designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for Cloud/Storage service, support Operations and Block customer base..

Career Level - M5

As a Senior Director of Software Development, you will be the site lead of Block Service Organization, leading the engineering teams and supporting various SDLC, i.e. development to launch and operations/support. You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. Having a strong experience in managing medium to large 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 critical. 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.

• Providing leadership, direction, and strategy for a growing team.
• Establishing and developing the organizational capacity needed to execute on strategy.
• Mentoring and developing other leaders and senior engineers.
• Successfully leading as site lead for the 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

• 20+ years of experience in the software industry with 10+ 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 operationalizing 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 Micro-service 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.