Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering, Data Plane

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a hands-on leader to guide engineering teams building core network infrastructure for a high-scale, multi-tenant cloud. You will own performance of the networking dataplane and help shape the feature roadmap for customer-focused services.

You will drive automation, manage on-call incidents, and mentor engineers across cross-functional teams in a fast-growing, ground-up infrastructure project.

Qualifications

• Led or managed teams building network infrastructure.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience plus leadership.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Hands-on architecting, designing, and overseeing feature implementation.
• Experience with C/C++ and Python, Linux kernel modules.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to build core network infrastructure that is scalable and reliable.
• Own performance of the networking dataplane and feature roadmap.
• Understand service scale, capacity, security, and performance requirements.
• Automate and reduce technical debt; participate in incident management.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Team leadership

P4/DOCA NIC DPU

C/C++

Python

Linux kernel modules

Network protocols

On-call experience

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GDB

Linux

Job description

We’re looking for a hands‑on leader with expertise and passion leading engineering teams, solving difficult problems in distributed systems, and creating a secure environment for our customers. At Oracle you can build new teams and systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space – we are growing fast, still at an early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives. A leader at any level can have significant technical and business impact.
This is a new ground-up effort to build Infrastructure-as-a-Service that operates at a high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at a relatively early stage and working on ambitious new initiatives.

What You’ll Do

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 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. We are subject matter experts, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of our service stack, such as:

• Degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies
• Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors scaling requirements and patterns resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup/restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested, and maintained

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 simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.

Incidence Management

– You will own and respond to customer incidents within the agreed-upon SLAs. You will manage the on-call for your services.

Technical Experts

– You will have a deep understanding of service topology and the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving reliability improvements in the services you engage with.

Cross-team collaboration

– You will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to senior leadership

Basic Qualifications:

• Led or managed teams working with NIC DPU's based on P4 and/or DOCA.
• 3+ years experience of leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• 5+ years of Software Engineer experience.
• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Hands-on ability to Architect, design, and oversee development & implementation of features
• 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.

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 to $306,400 per annum. 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.

Career Level - M3