Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Parental leave

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a senior engineering leader to guide the OKE Nodes & Apps team, delivering secure, scalable Kubernetes services for Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and related cloud-native platforms.

You will partner with Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, and Product Management to define roadmaps, drive upgrades, improve observability, and raise reliability across the control plane and data plane while mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading one or more engineering teams responsible for Kubernetes platforms.
• Strong background in distributed systems, reliability, and performance tuning.
• Ability to drive operational excellence, automation, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Lead one or more teams within the OKE Nodes & Apps organization to deliver secure, scalable Kubernetes services.
• Drive execution across node lifecycle, platform capabilities, and service reliability.
• Collaborate with OCI engineering, product management, and customer support to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices for quality, observability, security, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor and develop team members through coaching and performance management.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Leadership

Cloud platforms

Observability

Automation

Job description

Job Description

Leads one or more engineering teams responsible for the OKE Nodes and Applications platform, driving the evolution of Kubernetes worker node infrastructure, node lifecycle management, and core application platform capabilities that power Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE).

• Owns the delivery of scalable, secure, and highly available node and application services, with accountability for reliability, operational excellence, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Leads escalations involving complex distributed systems, Kubernetes node provisioning, upgrades, application lifecycle management, and customer-impacting incidents.

• Drives cross-organizational initiatives to improve observability, SLO attainment, upgrade safety, resilience, and operational automation across the OKE control plane and data plane.

• Partners closely with Compute, Networking, Storage, Security, and OCI platform teams to deliver cohesive cloud-native capabilities, while working with product management, support, and customer-facing organizations to define roadmaps, enable feature adoption, and execute migration strategies.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead one or more teams within the OKE Nodes & Apps engineering organization, delivering secure, scalable, and highly available Kubernetes platform services.

• Drive technical execution, architecture, and operational excellence for node lifecycle, application platform capabilities, and service reliability.

• Partner across OCI engineering, Product Management, and Customer Support to deliver customer-focused solutions and resolve complex production issues.

• Establish engineering best practices for software quality, automation, observability, security, and continuous improvement.

• Build and develop a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration to solve complex technical challenges.

• Champion operational excellence, reliability, and continuous improvement.

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: $120,000 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:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. 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.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. 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

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