Senior Director, Software Development

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in owning large-scale, highly distributed systems and building new products from scratch? If so, then Virtual Networking in Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has a great opportunity. This role is to manage the DNS organization. DNS is a Tier 0 service. DNS is the lowest level infrastructure building block that all OCI services (including Oracle SaaS) and customers heavily depends on. DNS service stability, reliability and feature richness is critical for the success of OCI. 

We're looking for strong leaders with background in distributed systems, networking and passion towards customer satisfaction to help build and maintain cloud scale services. You are expected to play a critical role towards the growth of the overall virtual networking portfolio. 

As a Senior Director, you will apply your experience and technical depth in creating long lasting strategic direction to build innovative products/features to meet customer needs and to improve the stability and operability of the services. You will use your organizational excellence and leadership skills to influence the prioritization and decision making for the DNS space and across the broader networking org to successfully deliver business value. You will be responsible for recruiting and hiring top talent to grow the team to meet an ambitious charter.

As a leader of portfolio of services, you will:

• Define service(s) strategy and roadmap by partnering with the product management.
• Represent your organization at the VP and SVP level.
• Use the experience and expertise to operate large scale software fleets to ensure the services meet the OCI scale.  
• Collaborate with your team, peers, various organizations, and senior leadership to identify product and customer requirements, coordinate delivery, and integrate solutions to meet the business needs.  
• Recruit and continue to build out a capable and cohesive engineering team who can deliver complex projects on time.
• Your ability to influence other teams is a key to your success in this role.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in managing large-scale organizations, preferably with multiple layers of management.
• 10+ years of designing, delivering, and operating large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Demonstrable success mentoring and growing engineers and people managers to senior levels.  
• Prior experience in owning and managing SaaS/IaaS services
• Strong knowledge of networking, distributed systems and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

We are growing fast. Entrepreneurial and fast-paced mentality is critical for success in this position. Candidate with a 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 Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure Team. 

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. 

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. 

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

If this sounds like the next challenge you want to take on to grow your career at Oracle, apply now!  

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $141,200 to $338,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, e