Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle Corporation; Juneau (AK); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN leads the next phase of OCI’s developer platform evolution. The Senior Manager, Software Development will guide a first-line engineering team building reliable deployment capabilities for cloud-native services.

You will hire, mentor, and help engineers grow while delivering scalable, secure platform services. The role emphasizes alignment with product and senior stakeholders, governance, and customer impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience including leadership.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Go, C++, C#, or Python.
• Experience leading teams that design and operate scalable distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, containers, orchestration, CI/CD and release engineering.
• Proven ability to hire, develop talent and align cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a first-line engineering team building deployment capabilities across OCI Developer Platform.
• Create conditions for engineers to deliver meaningful customer impact.
• Grow engineers and technical leaders and establish strong foundations for rapid adoption.
• Maintain safety, governance, and reliability of systems.

Skills

8+ years software development

Engineering leadership

Java

Go

C++

C#

Python

Cloud-native / CI/CD

Communication skills

Job description

Required to be in Nashville, TN.

OCI is transforming the developer platform experience. We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is an opportunity to lead a talented engineering team at the center of OCI’s next phase of growth.

As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will lead a first-line engineering team building reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform. You will create the conditions for your team to deliver meaningful customer impact, grow engineers and technical leaders, and help establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.

• Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.

• Experience leading teams that design, build, and operate scalable, highly available distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.

• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.

• Demonstrated people leadership: you can hire and develop talent, set direction, manage execution, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering disciplines, product, and senior stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus.

• Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.

• Cloud-native systems, multi-tenant services, control planes, workflow orchestration, or release engineering.

• Site reliability engineering, production incident management, observability, capacity planning, or performance engineering.

• Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply‑chain security, or compliance automation.

• AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety and governance for autonomous or semi‑autonomous systems.