Software Development Director
Description For Software Development Director
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a senior engineering leader to join their Technical Strategy and Oversight (TSO) organization in Nashville, TN. This role will build and lead the new OCI Performance team from the ground up, focusing on improving performance across existing services and defining KPIs for internal service teams.
The position involves working on ambitious initiatives including building high-performance primitives, frameworks to support OCI developers, and a new container runtime. The team is developing solutions such as canonical implementation of core components for data planes, remote persistent storage solutions with local NVMe-comparable performance, and tools to identify critical performance improvements across OCI data-planes.
As the Software Development Director, you'll be responsible for building and operating high-scale cloud infrastructure services, managing distributed multinational teams, and owning the design, delivery, and operations of prominent public cloud services. The role requires strong technical expertise in highly available and scalable systems, combined with the ability to balance feature delivery with incremental improvements.
The position offers competitive compensation ($122,500 - $291,800) plus benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, flexible vacation, and parental leave. This is an opportunity to join a growing team at an early stage, working with smart, motivated people in a dynamic and flexible workplace.
Key responsibilities include defining technical and product strategy, leading diverse teams, improving engineering culture, communicating across all organizational levels, and guiding architecture and security reviews. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of senior management experience, 5+ years in distributed systems/cloud services, and strong technical and leadership capabilities.
This role is based onsite in Nashville, TN and requires hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems architecture, and performance engineering. Join Oracle's mission to expand beyond traditional public cloud boundaries into dedicated, hybrid and multi-cloud, and edge computing solutions.
Responsibilities For Software Development Director
- Define technical, product, operational and organizational strategy for a public cloud service
- Lead a diverse, distributed team
- Instill and continuously improve the culture of accountability, integrity, and high professional bar
- Effectively communicate with anyone in the organization, from engineers to executive management
- Guide and mentor teams through architecture and security reviews
- Drive implementation and verification of security features
- Establish methodologies to drive continuous improvement in the engineering organization
Requirements For Software Development Director
- Minimum of 3+ years at a senior management level
- 5+ years of relevant distributed systems or cloud services experiences
- BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree
- Strong business and communication skills
- Exceptional leadership and people management skills
- Experience with Performance Benchmarking and Engineering
- Solid understanding of core cloud infrastructure
- Strong distributed systems architecture and design skills
Benefits For Software Development Director
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Short term and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) Savings with company match
- Flexible Vacation
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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