Software Development Snr Director

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 194,000 - 414,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan

Job summary

Oracle’s AI Infrastructure organization is seeking a software leader to build out and operate large-scale GPU cluster systems. The role focuses on low-level drivers, firmware exposure, and scalable architecture, with hands-on deep dives and collaboration across agile teams.

As Career Level - M5, you will guide multiple teams, drive strategic initiatives, and ensure top-quality delivery for AI workloads and customers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing Software Engineering teams.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong communication, analytical, and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction and strategy for the software org.
• Establish and develop the organization to meet and execute on strategy.
• Collaborate with geographically distributed teams to drive success of related groups.
• Deliver large-scale projects on time with high quality.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Software engineering

Communication

Analytical skills

Project management

Education

MS/BS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP)

Job description

Job Description

Here at OCI we’re building the world’s largest AI clusters and we’re the fastest at bringing them to market. The AI Infrastructure organization at OCI is leading this effort. As part of this focus on AI workloads and customers we’re building provisioning, repair, monitoring, maintenance, configuration and validation systems that enable us to deliver high quality GPU clusters to our customers and operate them with high availability. These systems are responsible for firmware management of the GPUs, the high speed backend NICs and automated validation and for GPU servers. Together they build the GPU specialization on top of the general compute Data plane which enables us to deliver high performing and high availability offerings to our customers. In this role you would lead the software development organization building out and operating these systems and work with some of the largest players in the AI space building systems that operate at unprecedented speed, scale and reliability. You should be a systems specialist with exposure to low level drivers and firmware, knowledge of repair systems, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower-level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will be responsible for providing leadership, direction and strategy.


• Establishing and development of organization to meet and execute on strategy.


• Working with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of their and of other related teams.


• Delivering large scale project on-time with the high quality

Required Qualifications

• MS or BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience


• 5+ years of experience managing Software Engineering teams.


• 12+ years of software engineering experience


• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and project management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 - 10+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available systems with exposure to low level drivers, firmware and systems debugging.


• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.


• Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.


• Strong experience and detailed technical knowledge in high performance computing and GPU systems.

Qualifications

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: $193,600 - $414,400 per year. 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 - M5

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