Senior Director, Cloud Networking & Dataplane Engineering

Oracle; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 414,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Director to lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for VCN Dataplane software within OCI. You will own engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations, collaborating across OCI to build a scalable, secure, and highly available dataplane.

The role blends deep systems expertise with people leadership, guiding architectural decisions, growing engineering managers, and balancing new capabilities with operational discipline at

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in CS/CE or equivalent.
• 10+ years engineering people-management experience.
• Proven track record delivering and operating large-scale cloud infrastructure.
• Strong grounding in systems software, C/C++, OS, concurrency, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for VCN Dataplane.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Guide architectural decisions across network virtualization, packet processing, and distributed systems.
• Own service health and operational outcomes including availability and incident response.
• Partner across Networking, Compute, Storage, hardware, and infra teams to deliver integrated capabilities.
• Build and develop a leadership team; recruit and retain managers and engineers.
• Set priorities and allocate resources across initiatives and commitments.
• Communicate direction, progress, and risks to senior leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

System software

C/C++

Operating systems

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Tools

Kernel networking

DPUs

Networking virtualization

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Senior Director to lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for VCN Dataplane software within OCI. You will own engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations, collaborating across OCI to build a scalable, secure, and highly available dataplane.

The role blends deep systems expertise with people leadership, guiding architectural decisions, growing engineering managers, and balancing new capabilities with operational discipline at