Senior Leader, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a hands‑on Software Development Manager to lead engineering teams focused on distributed systems, virtualization, and highly available services within OCI. You will build and operate infrastructure‑as‑a‑service in a large, multi‑tenant cloud with focus on compute, storage, networking, and security.

Strong leadership and architectural skills are essential for success. You will guide product development, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability while collaborating with teams

Qualifications

• BS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.
• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 1+ years leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
• Experience with C/C++ and Python.
• Experience with Linux Kernel Modules and device drivers.
• Strong Network Protocols, tools and troubleshooting experience.
• Debugging with tools such as gdb and Coredump analysis.
• Unit test, Feature test and system test planning, execution and automation.
• Resolving customer issues and handling escalations.
• Experience deploying code within change management procedures
• Understanding of service KPI metrics, alarms, logging, and system health
• Experience working in an operational environment with mission‑critical tier‑one services with associated oncall responsibilities.
• Experience with mentoring and growing engineers building network infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Service Accountability – You will lead a team whose mission is to build core network infrastructure that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable.
• Ownership Scope – You own the performance of the service as it relates to the networking dataplane as well as the roadmap to determine the key features required by our customers and partner teams.
• Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service(s) you own.
• Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to help automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while eliminating technical debt.
• Incidence Management – You will own and respond to customer incidents within SLAs and manage the on-call for your services.
• Technical Experts – You will have a deep understanding of service topology and dependencies to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations.
• Cross‑team collaboration – You will engage with a wide variety of audiences, from individual contributors to senior leadership.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux Kernel

Device drivers

Network protocols

Distributed systems

Automation

P4/DOCA NIC DPUs

Architecture

Security

Mentoring

GDB / core dumps

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

P4/DOCA NIC DPUs

Job description

Oracle is seeking a hands‑on Software Development Manager to lead engineering teams focused on distributed systems, virtualization, and highly available services within OCI. You will build and operate infrastructure‑as‑a‑service in a large, multi‑tenant cloud with focus on compute, storage, networking, and security.

Strong leadership and architectural skills are essential for success. You will guide product development, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability while collaborating with teams