Software Development Snr Director

Job Description

Application deployment is critical to all teams within OCI in delivering value quickly to their customers. As the leader of this organization, you will define the technical vision, drive execution across multiple teams, and build a high-performing engineering organization capable of delivering a mission-critical platform.

You will work closely with product and service teams across the company to drive usage of best practices and continuously evolve the platform to increase both the speed and safety of deployments.

This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise in distributed systems and developer infrastructure, strong organizational leadership, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

Technical & Product Leadership

Define and drive the vision and long-term strategy for both application deployment across OCI.

Architect and evolve systems that support high-scale, reliable, and secure automated deployments across a large cloud environment.

Guide critical technical decisions, including build systems, deployment orchestration, release strategies, and developer workflows.

Execution & Delivery

Own end-to-end delivery of the platform, ensuring high-quality, predictable execution across multiple teams.

Lead the organization through clear, measurable OKRs, aligning engineering execution with business and platform outcomes.

Drive a culture of incremental delivery, enabling frequent, low-risk releases (e.g., daily or continuous deployment).

Establish best-in-class engineering processes for planning, prioritization, and release management.

Define and track key delivery metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate) to continuously improve performance and velocity.

Ensure teams balance speed with safety through strong testing, automation, and release guardrails.

People Leadership

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineering managers and senior engineers.

Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner with service teams across OCI to drive adoption of new app deploy features that enable faster and safer deployments.

Influence engineering practices across the broader organization through platform capabilities and standards.

Operational Ownership

Own the availability, performance, and scalability of the app deploy platform.

Ensure robust observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.

Drive continuous improvements in system efficiency, cost optimization, and developer experience.

Champion secure-by-default and resilient deployment patterns across the ecosystem

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

10+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant time in technical leadership roles.

5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including managing managers.

Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in a cloud environment.

Proven track record of delivering complex, multi-team software initiatives from concept to production.

Preferred Qualifications

Deep experience building high-scale application deployment services, developer platforms, or large-scale software delivery infrastructure.

Demonstrated success leading organizations using OKRs or similar goal-setting frameworks to drive measurable outcomes.

Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including automated testing, release orchestration, and infrastructure as code

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 to $414,400 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 opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. 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 holidays

10. 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 leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. 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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