Oracle Corporation

Senior Director, Software Development

Oracle Corporation$185K — $414K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Over 10 years in production software, cloud services, or large-scale systems.
  • Experience leading engineering organizations through managers and senior leaders.
  • Proven track record of driving new product development from validation to adoption.
  • Expertise in setting organizational strategy and defining measurable goals.
  • Solid understanding of modern software development practices like CI/CD and observability.
  • Experience with AI technologies addressing customer needs effectively.
  • Strong product judgment linking emerging technologies to tangible solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the engineering vision and strategy for AI-driven products at OCI.
  • Build and manage a high-performance engineering team of managers and senior technical leaders.
  • Create a culture of rapid experimentation and learning from developers' feedback.
  • Collaborate with product management and other teams to address vital developer challenges.
  • Transform AI advancements into secure and reliable developer tools and experiences.
  • Set success metrics for product adoption, quality, and performance.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives ensuring alignment among senior leaders.
  • Foster leadership development and a culture of continuous learning and accountability.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Disability and life insurance coverage options.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependents.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off including flexible vacation and sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance programs.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan offerings.
  • Additional voluntary benefits, including insurance options.
Full Job Description
Job Description

This role is an opportunity to shape the future of software development across OCI. We are looking for an accomplished engineering leader to build and lead teams that combine product thinking, rapid experimentation, and strong engineering discipline. These teams will work directly with OCI developers to understand their most important challenges, validate new ideas quickly, and scale successful solutions across the organization.

You will lead an organization responsible for turning advances in artificial intelligence into practical products that improve how software is developed. Success will require technical depth, product judgment, organizational leadership, and the ability to create clarity in an emerging and rapidly changing field.

Responsibilities

As Senior Director of Software Engineering, you will define the strategy and lead the organization responsible for AI native product engineering across OCI.

You will:
  1. Establish the engineering vision, strategy, and priorities for products that improve the software development lifecycle across OCI.
  2. Build and lead an exceptional organization through engineering managers, technical leaders, and senior engineers.
  3. Create an environment in which teams can experiment rapidly, learn directly from developers, and turn promising ideas into trusted production products.
  4. Partner with product management, design, security, applied AI, and OCI engineering organizations to identify and solve the most valuable developer problems.
  5. Translate advances in artificial intelligence into useful, secure, reliable, and scalable developer experiences.
  6. Establish clear measures of success, including adoption, developer productivity, software quality, reliability, and time to production.
  7. Ensure that every product meets OCI expectations for security, privacy, performance, availability, and operational excellence.
  8. Lead complex initiatives that span organizations and build alignment among senior technical, product, and business leaders.
  9. Develop engineering leaders, strengthen organizational capability, and create a culture grounded in curiosity, accountability, customer focus, and continuous learning.


You should be energized by ambitious problems and comfortable operating where the opportunity is clear but the path is still being defined. You should know how to move quickly while maintaining the judgment and discipline required to build products that OCI engineers can trust.

Basic Qualifications
  1. More than 10 years of experience building and operating production software products, developer platforms, cloud services, or large scale distributed systems.
  2. Significant experience leading engineering organizations through managers and senior technical leaders.
  3. A record of taking new products from early exploration and customer validation through production delivery and broad adoption.
  4. Demonstrated success defining organizational strategy, establishing measurable goals, developing leaders, and delivering complex initiatives across organizations.
  5. Strong knowledge of modern software development practices, including source control, continuous integration, testing, release automation, observability, and production operations.
  6. Experience building products that apply artificial intelligence, machine learning, intelligent agents, or related technologies to meaningful customer problems.
  7. Strong product judgment and the ability to connect emerging technologies with practical solutions that deliver measurable value.
  8. A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.


Preferred Qualifications
  1. Experience building developer products or platforms used by large engineering organizations.
  2. Experience applying generative artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, retrieval systems, evaluation frameworks, or model driven automation to software development.
  3. Experience establishing practices for the secure and responsible use of artificial intelligence, including privacy, evaluation, observability, and human oversight.
  4. Experience building new products and organizations in environments that require urgency, adaptability, and rapid learning.


Qualifications

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $185,500 to $414,400 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 to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M5

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