Cloud Networking & Dataplane Infrastructure Leader

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 414,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) match

Employee stock purchase plan

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Oracle seeks a Senior Director to lead VCN Dataplane software, owning engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations. You will guide a geographically distributed team of engineering managers and senior engineers to meet performance, security, and availability goals across OCI.

You will shape the roadmap with cross-functional partners and drive critical infrastructure initiatives, balancing new features with operational discipline at cloud scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of engineering people-management experience, including leadership of multiple teams and managers.
• Demonstrated track record delivering and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong technical grounding in systems software, concurrency, and performance tradeoffs.
• Experience with networking infrastructure and production operations, including incident management.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for VCN Dataplane across OCI.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Guide architectural decisions in network virtualization, packet processing, and distributed systems with attention to performance, security, and availability.
• Own service health, availability, incident response, and safe fleet deployments.
• Collaborate with Networking, Compute, Storage, hardware, and infra teams to deliver integrated capabilities.
• Build and develop a leadership team; recruit and retain managers and senior engineers; establish clear ownership.

Skills

Engineering leadership

C/C++

Distributed systems

Networking infrastructure

Executive communication

Education

BS or MS in CS/CE or related

Tools

Kernel networking

DPUs/SmartNICs

Packet processing

Job description

Oracle seeks a Senior Director to lead VCN Dataplane software, owning engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations. You will guide a geographically distributed team of engineering managers and senior engineers to meet performance, security, and availability goals across OCI.

You will shape the roadmap with cross-functional partners and drive critical infrastructure initiatives, balancing new features with operational discipline at cloud scale.