Senior Director of Engineering

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI Networking team is building an ultra-high performance network required to support AI/ML/HPC workloads. This is your opportunity to join the AI revolution and design a network which can scale from tens to thousands of GPU without compromising on performance. This team will deliver Network-as-a-Service that handles provisioning, life cycle management, performance tuning, monitoring and security of our customers cluster network infrastructure.

Lead a team that designs, develops, solves problems and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. As a Senior Director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to lead software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to current and future design specifications. Build improvements within an existing software architecture and envision improvements to the architecture. Directs and ensures the implementation of operational policies through subordinate managers. Interacts internally and externally with executive management involving negotiation of difficult matters to influence policy. Functional expertise and broad company knowledge. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. 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.

Career Level - M5

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systems and building new products from scratch? If so, then Virtual Networking in Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure is the place for you. We're looking for strong leaders with backgrounds in distributed systems and networking to help build new services on a multi-tenant cloud environment at a massive scale while also contributing towards the growth of the overall virtual networking portfolio.

You will never be bored in this job. We need people with a passion towards customer satisfaction and expertise in distributed systems, networking, and highly available services. How will we build this? It could be up to you but we apply solid engineering and design principles to develop world-class, highly available services.

We are growing fast and an entrepreneurial, fast-paced mentality is critical for success in this position: a passionate 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. Does this sound like a challenge you're ready for?

As a service leader, you will:

• Define the product working with a product management.
• Help define service strategy and roadmap.
• Represent the organization at the VP and SVP level.
• Manage the design, development, and operations of the team.
• Collaborate with your team, peers, and senior leadership to identify requirements, coordinate delivery, and integrate solutions for new features and functionality.
• Provide technical expertise and leadership.
• Recruit and continue to build out a capable and cohesive engineering team.

• 10 years experience designing, delivering, and operating large scale distributed systems in production environments.
• 7 years experience managing large-scale organizations, preferably with multiple layers of management.
• Manage the design, delivery, and operation of large scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrable success mentoring and growing junior engineers to senior levels.
• Strong knowledge of Operating Systems fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of networking, distributed systems and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Experience with build automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment tools.

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: from $142,900 to $338,600 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 Oracles 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.

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