Software Development Manager (Seattle)

OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) AI Infrastructure is at the forefront of building a cutting-edge, ultra-high-performance GPU platform designed to support AI/ML/HPC workloads. This is your chance to be part of the AI revolution, creating systems that allow customers to scale from tens to thousands of GPUs without compromising performance.Our team is responsible for designing and developing fundamental architectural changes for GPU delivery, health monitoring, triage automation, and diagnostic services. These are essential for running distributed AI/ML/HPC workloads across thousands of GPUs, leveraging technologies like RoCE and InfiniBand.We're looking for an experienced front-line engineering manager to lead and support AI Data Plane (DP) team. You'll build a highly available, massive scale, integrated cloud service in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment for hyper-scale AI customers.You'll bring experience in leading engineering teams, including hands-on technical management and on-call experience. You have technical experience with high-performance, mission-critical environments. You demonstrate strong ownership, solid communication skills and a bias for action. You're comfortable leading projects, communicating with senior leadership, and growing your team.Why Join Us?Innovative Projects: Build groundbreaking solutions for our customers from the ground up.Exciting Times: Be part of a young, fast-growing team working on ambitious new initiatives.Dynamic Environment: Collaborate in a vibrant, agile environment where learning and adaptability are key.What We’re Looking For:Adaptable Engineers: Self-motivated individuals with a quick learning ability.Technical Excellence: Rock-solid developers and distributed systems engineers with a deep understanding of distributed systems and algorithms. Comfortable diving deep into any part of the stack, as well as software debugging and low-level systems troubleshooting.Passion for Simplicity and Scale: Value simplicity and scalability in design and implementation.Collaborative Spirit: Comfortable working in a collaborative, agile environment and eager to learn. Ability to collaborate effectively with various dependencies, including Network and Data Center operations.At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world. Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future. You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.Career Level - M3Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing View email address on apply.placed-app.com or by calling View phone number on apply.placed-app.com in the United States.Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.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 onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $133,100 to $306,400 per annum. 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:1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. 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.9. 11 paid holidays10. 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.11. Paid parental leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe 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 - M2Responsibilities:As an engineering manager at OCI, you will own: - Engineering and project management. You'll work with customers and stakeholders to understand their feature requirements and pain points. You'll build roadmaps and make priority tradeoffs to deliver those features. Plan and drive engineering projects to successfully deliver that value to our customers, while managing risks and blockers along the way. You'll take large, technically complex projects and break them down into manageable pieces, develop actionable plans and successfully deliver them are expected.- People management. You'll handle coaching and performance-management for the engineers on your team. You'll forecast staffing needs, and then work with our recruiting teams to hire those positions.- Process improvement. You'll work across engineering teams to identify and resolve systemic problems and bottlenecks, to improve our overall engineering velocity and efficiency.- This role is inherently cross-functional and requires the ability to collaborate with PM team and other teams across OCI Core Service teams (Compute, Storage, Network)Qualifications:- 4+ years of engineering management and people management experience- 5+ years in leading large cross-functional projects, operating large-distributed services in cloud environments- 5+ years of owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field- Strong technical knowledge in distributed systems, high performance computing, and GPU systems. Proven industry expert in high scalability, availability, low-latency domains- Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills- Experience working in cloud platform(s) (AWS, OCI, GCP, Azure etc).Full timePosting Date: 2026-06-13