Oracle Corporation

Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle Corporation • $169K — $355K *
Seattle, WA 98115In-Person
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in designing and operating distributed systems or platform services.
  • Proficiency in cloud platforms including OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Strong background in software engineering best practices including CI/CD and automation.
  • Experience leading software development teams and driving engineering strategy.
  • Solid understanding of system architecture with a focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the engineering organization for OCI Networking's Fleet Management.
  • Define the technical strategy and roadmap for OCI Networking fleet lifecycle management.
  • Build platform capabilities that enhance operation and scaling of OCI Networking services.
  • Manage execution and delivery of strategic initiatives while ensuring operational excellence.
  • Drive engineering practices including automation and AI-enabled tooling.
  • Provide technical leadership to enhance architecture and engineering standards.
  • Collaborate with other engineering leaders to align on strategy and deliver cloud capabilities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work at the forefront of cloud technology.
  • Access to a highly collaborative and innovative work environment.
  • Professional development opportunities to advance engineering practices.
  • Work on strategic initiatives that have impactful global reach.
  • Contribute to the creation of a standardized platform improving service operations.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking is the foundation that enables customers to run mission-critical workloads at global cloud scale.
Within the OCI Networking Data Plane organization, the Fleet Management and workload orchestration team builds the foundational platform for deploying, operating, and scaling OCI Networking services across Oracle's global cloud infrastructure. The platform provides common capabilities for fleet lifecycle management, workload placement, deployment automation, capacity expansion, and infrastructure orchestration, enabling networking services to operate consistently and efficiently at scale.

As a Software Engineering Director, you will lead the engineering organization responsible for this strategic platform. You'll define technical strategy, drive execution, and grow a high-performing engineering organization while partnering with architects and engineering leaders across OCI. You'll help shape a standardized platform that simplifies service operations, accelerates infrastructure expansion, and enables networking teams to innovate faster.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineering Director, you will:
  • Lead and grow the engineering organization responsible for Fleet Management and workload orchestration within the OCI Networking Data Plane organization.
  • Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for the platform that manages the lifecycle of OCI Networking fleets, including workload placement, deployment automation, capacity expansion, and infrastructure orchestration.
  • Build standardized platform capabilities that simplify how OCI Networking services are deployed, operated, and scaled across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Own organizational planning, execution, staffing, and delivery across multiple strategic initiatives while balancing customer commitments, operational excellence, and long-term platform investments.
  • Drive engineering effectiveness through modern software engineering practices, automation, AI-enabled engineering, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
  • Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineering managers and technical leaders, and raising the engineering bar.
  • Deliver reliable, scalable, and observable platform services with a strong focus on operational excellence, automation, and reliability engineering.
  • Partner across OCI Networking and OCI Infrastructure organizations to align roadmaps, influence platform strategy, and deliver foundational cloud capabilities.


Preferred Qualifications
  • 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or platform services, including experience leading high-performing software engineering organizations.
  • Strong technical background in distributed systems, cloud platforms, infrastructure orchestration, deployment automation, fleet management, workload scheduling, or networking infrastructure.
  • Proven experience defining technical strategy and delivering complex, mission-critical platforms through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, concurrency, software architecture, and system design.
  • Experience building and operating reliable, production-grade services with a strong focus on scalability, automation, operational excellence, and customer experience.
  • Demonstrated success improving engineering effectiveness through modern software engineering practices, automation, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:
  • Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
  • Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
  • Leads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.
  • Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
  • Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.

System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:
  • Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  • Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.

System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:
  • Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
  • Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
  • Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
  • Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
  • Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
  • Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:
  • Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
  • Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
  • Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Automation & Change Management:
  • Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
  • Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Education and/or Experience:
  • 12 years of experience in software development

OR
  • Bachelor's of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 8 years of experience in software development

OR
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 8 years of experience in software development

OR
  • Master's of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development

OR
  • Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development.

Job Skills:
  • Same skills as prior level.

Cloud - Cloud Platforms Experience:
  • 4 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).

Testing and Automation Experience:
  • 8 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.

Distributed Systems Experience:
  • 2 years of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.


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Size
143,000 employees
Market Cap
$217.3 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$12.8 billion
Founded
1977
5 Year Trend
+2.3%
Revenue
$39.6 billion
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