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Software Development Director

Oracle
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Sept 2025
💰 $291,800/yr($122,500/yr$291,800/yr)

About the role

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 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 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.

 

· 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.

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: $122,500 to $291,800 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided t

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