Software Development Snr Director

Job Description

Are you interested in working on the Storage Infrastructure team that operates with Exabytes of data in 60+ regions? Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with industry-leading computing, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. We want you to l ead the Block storage organization with first level management team and senior ICs to support design, development, operations, and debugging software programs. If this is you, you can be part of the team that drives the best-in-class Storage platform into its next development phase. These are exciting times for the service - we are growing fast and delivering innovative, enterprise-class features to satisfy various customer workloads.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Director of Software Development, you will be the site lead of Block Service Organization, leading the engineering teams and supporting various SDLC, i.e. development to launch and operations/support. You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. Having a strong experience in managing medium to large sized teams, domain expertise in one of these areas (storage, distributed systems, compute/networking) is mandatory. Experience in handling operations of a cloud deployed service, any experience in rolling out cloud solutions are critical. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative environment, and be excited to learn. You should have a good understanding of the value of modern agile and agile development processes, the ability to adapt and manage a team through change, and fostering a healthy team dynamic and culture.

• Providing leadership, direction, and strategy for a growing team.
• Establishing and developing the organizational capacity needed to execute on strategy.
• Mentoring and developing other leaders and senior engineers.
• Successfully leading as site lead for the larger geographically distributed organization.
• Delivering large-scale project on-time with the high quality.
• Overseeing operational teams supporting products in production under customer load.
• Working with OCI leadership, senior engineers, program managers, and product managers to develop compelling products and services that meet customer needs.
• Providing guidance and constructive feedback to team members and other stakeholders.
• Raising the bar for product quality and customer experience.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in the software industry with 10+ years in Engineering Management leading agile teams on design, development, and delivery of highly scalable products.
• Strong, demonstrable track record for hiring and retaining top-tier talent.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate a vision and get people invested in success.
• Exposure to the process and nuances of operationalizing and supporting products and services used by thousands of customers simultaneously.
• Ability to create, drive and evangelize cross-team processes and achieve org-wide impact.
• Knowledge of C++, Java programming language and its ecosystem.
• Good understanding of Micro-service based architectures, Distributed systems, Storage systems and Cloud.
• Previous experience leading engineering teams in cloud computing, enterprise software, or fast-paced start-ups is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, databases, storage and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience with build automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment tools.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Career Level - M5

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