Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure in Nashville seeks a Senior Manager, Software Engineering to lead the AI infrastructure network modeling and control efforts. You will guide architecture, align delivery with business goals, and mentor engineers building scalable, reliable network services for large-scale AI workloads.

You'll partner with senior technical staff to set direction, drive production readiness, and foster a culture of ownership and continuous improvement across distributed systems and

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams that build and operate production services.
• Proven record of delivering complex software initiatives through planning and collaboration.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, and reliability.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team for distributed services supporting network modeling and lifecycle operations in OCI AI and cloud infra.
• Own roadmap, priorities, and delivery commitments with emphasis on reliability, scalability, and security.
• Evaluate architectural tradeoffs with leads to guide service evolution.
• Establish ownership and execution plans for complex projects and remove delivery obstacles.
• Partner with network engineering, operations, and adjacent software teams to align requirements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Leadership

Production services

Architectural judgment

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Networking

Job description

Senior Manager, Software Engineering — AI Infrastructure, Network Modeling & Control

Lead the team building network control software that enables OCI’s AI infrastructure to scale. Large-scale AI training and inference depend on reliable, high-performance networks connecting GPU infrastructure. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Network Modeling and Control team builds the software that models these physical networks and enables their configuration, expansion, and safe operation. Our services help turn infrastructure designs into working networks and coordinate changes as capacity grows. We solve distributed systems challenges at the intersection of software, networking, and AI infrastructure: maintaining consistent network state, coordinating concurrent changes, recovering from partial failures, and automating infrastructure changes safely. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering to lead and grow an engineering team delivering these services. You will combine people leadership, technical judgment, and execution to help OCI bring new AI network capacity online efficiently and operate it reliably. You will partner with senior engineers to set technical direction, translate infrastructure priorities into an achievable roadmap, and build an environment where engineers take ownership, develop their expertise, and deliver meaningful results.

Responsibilities

What makes this work interesting

• Direct impact on AI infrastructure. Lead software development for the networks supporting GPU clusters and AI workloads.
• Technical depth and organizational influence. Guide decisions spanning distributed services, network models, automation, and production operations.
• Ownership from strategy to production. Connect the team’s roadmap to infrastructure delivery needs and measure success through production outcomes.
• The opportunity to build a strong team. Hire, coach, and develop engineers solving complex problems in a rapidly evolving domain.

What you will do

• Lead an engineering team responsible for distributed services supporting network modeling, configuration, and lifecycle operations across OCI’s AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Own the team’s roadmap, priorities, and delivery commitments, balancing new capabilities with reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Partner with technical leads and principal engineers to evaluate architectural tradeoffs, resolve technical risks, and guide the evolution of the services.
• Establish clear ownership and execution plans for complex projects, manage dependencies, and remove obstacles to delivery.
• Work with network engineering, infrastructure delivery, operations, and adjacent software teams to align requirements and deliver capabilities across service boundaries.
• Build a culture of production ownership, with effective testing, observability, operational readiness, and safe rollout practices.
• Lead the team’s operational performance, ensuring sustainable on‑call practices and turning incident findings into lasting engineering improvements.
• Hire and develop engineers through regular feedback, coaching, career planning, and thoughtful delegation.
• Foster an inclusive environment where engineers can challenge assumptions, raise risks early, and contribute to decisions.
• Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to engineering leadership and partner teams.

What you bring

• Substantial software engineering experience, including experience managing teams that build and operate production services.
• A record of delivering complex software initiatives through effective planning, technical judgment, and collaboration across teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, service architecture, reliability, and the software development lifecycle.
• Experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers, including supporting senior technical contributors.
• Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions, ask incisive questions, and help teams make sound architectural decisions.
• Experience owning production services and improving operational health through engineering investment.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business and infrastructure needs into clear priorities and achievable plans.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build productive partnerships across organizational boundaries.

Experience that will help you succeed

• Leading teams building cloud infrastructure, network automation, configuration management, or infrastructure control systems.
• Infrastructure software supporting AI/ML platforms, GPU clusters, or large‑scale compute environments.
• Managing services with demanding availability, scalability, and change‑safety requirements.
• Leading delivery across software engineering, physical infrastructure, networking, and operations teams.

You do not need prior experience with every technology in our environment. We value sound technical judgment, thoughtful people leadership, and the ability to help teams succeed in a complex domain.

Qualifications

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: $146,300 - $306,400 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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