Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation's OCI team is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a high-scale Telemetry, Monitoring, and Alarming platform that ingests billions of datapoints and supports canary-based health checks across OCI regions.

You will provide technical leadership to senior and principal engineers, own the roadmap, and collaborate with product management and service teams to deliver reliable, performant, and intelligent observability across Oracle Cloud services.

Qualifications

• No formal education requirements stated in the ad.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and operation of a high-scale, distributed telemetry platform that processes billions of datapoints and petabytes of time-series data across OCI regions.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of services responsible for Monitoring, Alarming, and Canary-based health checks, supporting mission-critical infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership, direction, and strategic vision for a team of senior and principal engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute a clear, prioritized roadmap of features, platform investments, and operational improvements delivering on commitments on time and with high quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, other OCI service teams, and Oracle-wide stakeholders to align goals, manage dependencies, and drive integrated solutions.
• Drive and mature engineering processes, including design reviews, operational readiness reviews, quality standards, and incident postmortems.
• Represent the team in executive-level updates and strategic planning discussions, articulating technical direction, risks, and delivery status.
• Proactively monitor the health and performance of services in the global OCI fleet, identifying trends, mitigating risks, and ensuring fault-tolerant, scalable telemetry infrastructure.

Skills

Distributed systems

Telemetry platforms

Leadership

Roadmap planning

Cross-functional teams

Job description

This is a unique opportunity to lead a key part of OCI's Observability stack focused on Telemetry, Monitoring and Alarming systems, which are essential to ensuring the performance, availability, and trustworthiness of all Oracle Cloud services. Our mission is to deliver a world-class Integrated Observability and Management platform that seamlessly supports OCI, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Our platform combines Monitoring, Alarming, Logging, Events, Auditing, and SIEM capabilities to give customers and internal teams a unified, actionable view into their infrastructure and applications. This role specifically focuses on the Monitoring and Alarming platform, which provides the foundation for real-time metric ingestion, scalable alerting, incident detection, and proactive canary-based health verification of services.

We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an exceptionally talented team of software engineers in advancing this critical part of OCI’s platform. You will drive innovation and scale to ensure our Telemetry systems remain among the most reliable, performant, and intelligent in the modern cloud landscape.

Internal Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and operation of a high-scale, distributed telemetry platform that processes billions of datapoints and petabytes of time-series data across OCI regions.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of services responsible for Monitoring, Alarming, and Canary-based health checks, supporting mission-critical infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership, direction, and strategic vision for a team of senior and principal engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute a clear, prioritized roadmap of features, platform investments, and operational improvements delivering on commitments on time and with high quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, other OCI service teams, and Oracle-wide stakeholders to align goals, manage dependencies, and drive integrated solutions.
• Drive and mature engineering processes, including design reviews, operational readiness reviews, quality standards, and incident postmortems.
• Represent the team in executive-level updates and strategic planning discussions, articulating technical direction, risks, and delivery status.
• Proactively monitor the health and performance of services in the global OCI fleet, identifying trends, mitigating risks, and ensuring fault-tolerant, scalable telemetry infrastructure.

External Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and operation of a high-scale, distributed telemetry platform that processes billions of datapoints and petabytes of time-series data across OCI regions.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and operational excellence of services responsible for Monitoring, Alarming, and Canary-based health checks, supporting mission-critical infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership, direction, and strategic vision for a team of senior and principal engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Define and execute a clear, prioritized roadmap of features, platform investments, and operational improvements delivering on commitments on time and with high quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Management, other OCI service teams, and Oracle-wide stakeholders to align goals, manage dependencies, and drive integrated solutions.
• Drive and mature engineering processes, including design reviews, operational readiness reviews, quality standards, and incident postmortems.
• Represent the team in executive-level updates and strategic planning discussions, articulating technical direction, risks, and delivery status.
• Proactively monitor the health and performance of services in the global OCI fleet, identifying trends, mitigating risks, and ensuring fault-tolerant, scalable telemetry infrastructure.