Software Development Senior Manager (OCI) (Nashville)

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.Who are we looking for?We are looking for a manager with distributed systems experience - building cost efficient and scalable systems from scratch. You have led a team covering at least a single service or multiple micro-services within a larger service. You were fully responsible for design, delivery, and operations of all components in this space. You are an expert manager and owned roadmap planning, talent review, and goal setting for your team. You have been responsible for building your team including recruiting, hiring, and performance management.You’ve operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations. You stay up at night thinking about how to protect the service from upstream dependencies. You will be technically strong and get a lot done – you’ve worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You’ve made life easier for your developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument properly to get the right data. You understand operational perfection and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates. The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, grow and develop the team and roadmap, drive execution of features and projects, and own feature design.What are the biggest challenges for the team?The biggest product challenges for the team are scalability, performance, availability, operations. The growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today. We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right trade-offs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution. We need managers who can lead their team to build services that handle millions of requests per second. We seek managers who can determine how we can survive regional data center outages and protect our customers. We need managers who can enable their team to build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Only 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 - M3In this role, you will:As a manager of the Oracle Cloud Marketplace software engineering team, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, distributed systems, operating systems and databases according to provided design specificationsOwn and build a highly available OCI service.Provide strategic leadership and guidance to a dedicated software development teamDrive the execution and delivery of service roadmap, ensuring projects are completed with the highest quality and within specified timelines.Engage in hands-on management, including addressing customer issues, managing escalations, and deploying code aligned with change management procedures.Maintain and enhance technical depth in software development practices and architectural design.Lead the team in Agile development methodologies in a fast-paced environmentThis team is targeting candidates in the U.S. who can work ONSITE in Nashville-TN. Relocation Assistance provided. (This is not a remote position). Minimum QualificationsBS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience5+ years of people-management experience managing engineers in software development environment. 7+ years’ experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems, preferably as a service owner3+ years of experience leading in large-scale organizations with multiple layers of managementStrong knowledge of Java, GoLang, C++ or C and experience with scripting languages such as Python.Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.Working familiarity with cloud infrastructure, storage protocols and standard network architectures.Strong understanding of databases, storage and distributed persistence technologies.Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.Experience building scalable, cloud native distributed systems.Preferred QualificationsExperience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP or OCI)Experience building multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure, cloud marketplaces domain.#LI-AP1Full timePosting Date: 2026-06-15