Job Description
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is a new ground-up effort to build Infrastructure-as-a-Service that operates at a 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 best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, still at a relatively early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.
The OCI team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive 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 tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.
We are part of the Compute team at OCI .
Lead a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc. Hire, coach, mentor and build high performing team whose mission is to build compute infrastructure that is highly performant, scalable and reliable.
As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.
Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. 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. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.
Responsibilities
As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.
Required Qualifications
MS or BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
8+ years of experience leading Software Engineering teams and managers
18+ years of software engineering experience
Prior experience in hiring and building orgs ground up. Coaching, mentoring to lift team performance
Prior experience in leading engineering teams that have delivered successful products and services
Strong communication skills
Strong problem solving skills for solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services
Experience delivering and operating large-scale, highly available distributed services.
Experience with microservice design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols along with developing highly reliable services.
Experience with devising, managing, and extending monitoring solutions for large-scale environments.
Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking and distributed systems fundamentals
Deep expertise in developing networking features/services and good operational experience running and troubleshooting large networks. Knowledge of network protocols – TCP/IP/Ethernet/BGP/OSPF etc. – is expected.
Understanding of service metrics and alarms through the development of dashboards, service KPIs, alarming systems.
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-one services with associated pager duty
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading teams developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)
Building teams and organizations in a product development setting
Experience working with external customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features
Experience and understanding of security and compliance.
Experience working with large enterprise customers
About Us
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