Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering, VCN Dataplane

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

Job Description

Virtual Networking is foundational to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), providing the networking and storage datapath capabilities that customer workloads and OCI services depend on.

Virtual Networking is foundational to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), providing the networking and storage datapath capabilities that customer workloads and OCI services depend on.

We are seeking a Senior Director to lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for VCN Dataplane software. You will own engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations, working with leaders across OCI to translate customer needs and business priorities into a clear technical roadmap.

This role combines deep systems expertise with organizational leadership. You will guide architectural decisions, scale a team of engineering managers and senior technical leaders, and maintain a high standard for performance, security, and availability. You will balance new capabilities with the engineering discipline required to operate critical infrastructure at cloud scale.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for VCN Dataplane in partnership with Product Management and engineering leaders across OCI.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Guide architectural decisions across network virtualization, packet processing, and distributed systems, balancing performance, reliability, security, resource efficiency, and maintainability.
• Own service health and operational outcomes, including availability, incident response, safe fleet deployments, and corrective actions that prevent recurring failures.
• Partner across Networking, Compute, Storage, hardware, and infrastructure teams to resolve dependencies and deliver integrated capabilities.
• Build and develop a strong leadership team; recruit and retain engineering managers and senior engineers, establish clear ownership, and develop succession plans.
• Set priorities and allocate resources across strategic initiatives, customer commitments, and operational improvements. Make tradeoffs explicit and hold teams accountable for delivery.
• Communicate technical direction, execution progress, and risks to senior leadership, and influence decisions that span organizational boundaries.
• Establish measurable goals for engineering execution, service quality, and organizational development.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 10 years of engineering people-management experience, including leadership of multiple teams and management of engineering managers.
• A demonstrated record of delivering and operating large-scale, business-critical cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.
• Strong technical grounding in systems software, C/C++, operating systems, concurrency, and distributed systems, with the ability to evaluate complex architecture and performance tradeoffs.
• Experience with networking infrastructure, such as network virtualization, packet processing, or high-performance networking.
• Experience leading production operations, including incident management, deployment safety, reliability improvements, and capacity planning.
• A strong record of recruiting and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, prioritize investments, and deliver complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.
• Clear communication and sound judgment, including the ability to explain technical and business tradeoffs to executive audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Software Defined Networking, Networking Protocols and network virtualization.
• Experience with SmartNICs, DPUs, hardware-assisted virtualization, or networking and storage offload.
• Experience with kernel networking, userspace packet processing, or other performance-sensitive dataplane software.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams and operating infrastructure across multiple cloud regions.

Disclaimer

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 - $414,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.

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