Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering, VCN Dataplane

Oracle Corporation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Director to lead the VCN Dataplane software organization, overseeing architecture, delivery, and production operations across a geographically distributed team.

You will translate customer needs and business priorities into a clear technical roadmap, drive performance, security, and availability, and balance new capabilities with disciplined infrastructure practices at cloud scale.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience
• Experience leading large distributed engineering teams
• Strong focus on architecture and strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, and production operations
• Guide architectural decisions and scale a team of engineering managers
• Maintain high standards for performance, security, and availability
• Balance new capabilities with disciplined engineering practices for cloud-scale infrastructure

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Engineering strategy

Architectural decisions

Cloud infrastructure

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.

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.