Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation in Nashville, TN is seeking a Senior Manager, Software Development to lead a team building reliable deployment capabilities for the OCI Developer Platform. You will nurture engineers, drive architecture and release practices, and align engineering with product and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes people leadership, scalable systems, and secure, reliable delivery of platform services used by developers across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 3+ years in engineering management or technical leadership.
• Experience designing and operating scalable distributed systems.
• Strong cloud-native, containers, orchestration, and CI/CD knowledge.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor and lead engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a first-line engineering team building deployment capabilities for OCI Dev Platform.
• Create conditions for engineers to deliver meaningful customer impact.
• Develop leaders, set direction, manage execution, and ensure safety and reliability.

Skills

Software development

Engineering management

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

CI/CD

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:

• 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.