Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering
Oracle
Oracle
Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and be part of a team that's transforming cloud technology for global enterprises. We blend the dynamism of a startup with the stability of a world leader, delivering a robust, secure, and highly reliable cloud platform. OCI supports critical customer workloads worldwide, emphasizing high performance, distributed systems, and enterprise-grade dependability. We are committed to our people, fostering an inclusive environment that values diverse viewpoints, collaboration, ownership, and continuous learning to achieve groundbreaking outcomes. At OCI, you'll tackle some of the most intricate distributed systems challenges at cloud scale alongside exceptional engineering talent.
The OCI networking team ensures scalable and secure access for customers and internal services. We collaborate closely with various OCI teams to facilitate rapid cloud expansion, maintain operational stability, and enforce enterprise-grade resource governance. This group manages highly distributed, mission-critical systems that directly influence customer onboarding, growth, and overall cloud consumption.
Lead and nurture a high-performing software engineering team focused on OCI services.
Take ownership of the delivery, availability, scalability, and operational excellence of vital OCI services.
Guide technical strategy, architectural decisions, and execution for large-scale distributed cloud services.
Collaborate across OCI to deliver essential platform capabilities that support customer expansion and cloud growth.
Implement engineering best practices in service reliability, automation, observability, and operational readiness.
Mentor and develop engineers through coaching, performance management, and career guidance.
Manage roadmap planning, prioritization, execution, and cross-functional alignment.
Lead teams managing extensive, highly available systems with a keen focus on resilience, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.
Champion Agile development methodologies and cultivate a culture of continuous improvement and ownership.
Participate in incident management, customer escalations, and operational reviews as required.
Address key challenges including designing systems for exponentially increasing traffic, enhancing scalability and performance of global services, building resilient systems against outages, balancing rapid feature delivery with platform sustainability, driving architectural simplification, and enabling seamless, secure scaling for OCI teams and customers.
We are seeking an experienced engineering manager with a robust background in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. You should have a proven track record of building and operating highly scalable services, leading successful engineering teams, and managing complex systems from conception through production.
This role demands a candidate who thrives in environments where reliability, scalability, and operational excellence are paramount. You must possess the ability to balance long-term architectural vision with agile, iterative execution. A passion for cultivating strong engineering cultures, simplifying complex systems, and empowering teams to innovate rapidly while maintaining high quality is essential.
The ideal candidate will combine deep technical acumen with strong people leadership skills and a customer-centric approach.
Minimum Qualifications: - BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. - 12+ years of overall professional experience. - 4+ years of engineering management experience leading software development teams. - 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems. - Proficiency in Java, Go, or Terraform. - In-depth 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. - Demonstrated ability to recruit, grow, and retain high-performing engineering teams.
Oracle
Cloud Computing