Software Development Director

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · Minneapolis, MN +1

Director of Software Development for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), focusing on tier 0 cloud services, specifically networking software like VPN and core routing infrastructure. The role involves managing a team, owning customer-facing cloud services and virtual networking components, and applying knowledge of networking and distributed systems to develop, debug, and design distributed network services. Responsibilities include leadership, strategy, team building, and delivering large-scale projects under strict SLOs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Candidate will be responsible for providing leadership, direction, and strategy.
  2. Establishing and developing the organization to meet and execute on strategy.
  3. Working with geographically distributed teams and contributing to the success of his/her and other related teams.
  4. Recruit and continue to build out a capable and cohesive engineering team.
  5. Delivering large scale project on-time with high quality.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems
  • 7+ years experience in people management
  • Demonstrable success mentoring and growing junior engineers to senior levels
  • Demonstrable leadership and people management skills
  • Excellent verbal and written skills
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures

Nice to have

  • Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure is a strong plus
  • Prior experience with either AWS, Azure or GCP is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • networking software
  • Core routing infrastructure
  • networking
  • distributed systems
  • operate tier 0 cloud services
  • strict SLOs