Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead a team responsible for designing, developing, troubleshooting, and enhancing software solutions across databases, applications, tools, networks, and related platform technologies. You will combine strong technical expertise with people leadership to drive high-quality (edited)

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team provides you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of substantial 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 taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges!We offer outstanding opportunities for inquisitive, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to tackle 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 interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with outstanding, foundational cloud networking services.https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Identity/home.htmAre you interested in a sophisticated, critical, customer-facing opportunity? The OCI Identity team offers this and many more initiatives for thoughtful, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems. 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.If the challenge of building a public cloud from ground up interests you, then you would want to talk to us.Identity is looking for a software development senior manager with cloud experience to join our development team. As a Senior Manager of Development you will own and manage a team of software engineers and software development managers responsible for software architecture and development for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure. You should become comfortable with low level operating systems development, be able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and higher level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.This role will drive major aspects of our product definition, contribute to the product strategy of our solutions, and contribute to the development of next generation Identity capabilities for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a software engineering team responsible for the design, development, debugging, testing, and delivery of software applications, operating systems, databases, tools, and platform components.
• Apply knowledge of software architecture and engineering practices to guide development activities and ensure solutions align with established design specifications and standards.
• Oversee enhancements to existing software architectures while identifying and recommending opportunities to improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, and overall design.
• Manage activities across multiple functional areas, ensuring effective operational planning and execution in alignment with corporate objectives and standards.
• Develop and contribute to short-, medium-, and long-term plans that support organizational and strategic objectives.
• Partner across functional areas and regularly engage with senior management and executives to align priorities, address dependencies, and ensure business and engineering objectives are achieved.
• Provide technical and organizational leadership, using sound analytical judgment to resolve complex engineering and product development challenges.
• Influence decisions and build alignment across stakeholders, including in complex or sensitive situations.
• Recruit, coach, develop, and manage engineers while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including demonstrated experience leading engineering teams or major technical initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead delivery of backend services, platform capabilities, infrastructure, workflow automation, operational tooling, and related enterprise-scale solutions.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, scalability, performance, reliability, and operational tradeoffs.
• Experience with cloud-native development and operations; experience with OCI is preferred, with AWS, Azure, or GCP also relevant.
• Strong understanding of IAM, authorization, secure service-to-service communication, and secure software development and delivery practices.
• Experience building or supporting developer tooling, test automation, release and deployment tooling, observability solutions, or operational dashboards.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across engineering, product, operations, security, infrastructure, and other functions to deliver results in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Proficiency in Java and Python; familiarity with Go, C#, or other enterprise software development languages is a plus.
• Experience with modern engineering practices, including automation and AI-assisted software development and delivery, is preferred.

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