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Oracle Software Development Senior Manager in Seattle, Washington
Job Description
As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and occasionally suggest improvements to the architecture.
Leads a specialized area which may have diverse functional elements. Frequently interacts with supervisors and/or functional peer group managers. May interact with senior management. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Minimum 8 years of software engineering or related experience. Minimum 3 years experience of leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
Responsibilities
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)/Cloud Engineering Infrastructure provides you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Fusion Application as a Service (FAaaS) is an exciting new team working on at the intersection of infrastructure and applications where we are leveraging OCI to transform some of the largest SaaS properties in the industry. We are making the existing Oracle's SaaS portfolios, including the multi-billion dollar revenue producing Fusion applications, become first class Oracle cloud citizens.
To support the vision we are building a platform that manages end-to-end lifecycle, from provisioning to upgrade to terminate; and provides a self-service cloud experience to the customer for our SaaS product by leveraging the underlying OCI platform and services.
We’re looking for a Software Development Manager with expertise and passion in building teams, coaching individuals, and solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized network infrastructure, and highly available services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives within the software assurance and security areas.
As a Software Development Manager, you and your team ( direct or dotted line) will solve exciting technical challenges by analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing vital Oracle Cloud services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance. You will focus on engineering improvements to the systems that will eliminate whole classes of issues.
What You'll Do
Service Accountability –You will lead a team whose mission is to build/manage a SaaS service that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable.
Ownership Scope – You own the performance of the service as well as the roadmap to determine the key features required by our customers and partner teams.
Operations Engineering – You will understand and be able to communicate the scale, capacity, security, performance attributes, and requirements of the service(s) you own. We are subject matter experts, able to understand and communicate every characteristic of our service stack, such as:
degradation and behavior under load of the services and their dependencies
Instrumentation and metrics that clearly describe the service behaviors
scaling requirements and patterns
resiliency and recoverability, ensuring that backup/restore and disaster recovery capabilities are implemented, tested, and maintained
Automation – You will have a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles, and will be eager to help automate, wherever and whenever the possibility arises, while simultaneously eliminating technical debt. Automation must be part of your DNA.
Incidence Management - You will own and respond to customer incidents within the agreed-upon SLAs. You will manage the on-call for your services.
Technical Experts - You will have a deep understanding of service topology and the dependencies required to troubleshoot issues and define mitigations. You will bring this expertise to bear in driving reliability improvements in the services you engage with.
Cross-team collaboration – You will engage with and present to a wide variety of audiences, ranging from individual contributors and teams to senior leadership
Basic Qualifications:
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field
8+ years of Software Engineer experience.
3+ years experience of leading or managing a team of software engineers building network infrastructure.
Led or managed teams responsible for Cloud Services.
Hands-on ability to Architect, design, and oversee development & implementation of features
Debugging with tools such as gdb and Coredump analysis.
Unit test, Feature test and system test planning, execution and automation.
Resolving customer issues and handling escalations.
Experience deploying code within change management procedures
Understanding of service KPI metrics, alarms, logging, and system health
Experience working in an operational environment with mission-critical tier-two services with associated oncall responsibilities.
Experience with mentoring and growing engineers building network infrastructure.
Experience in Block Storage, FileSystem related technologies is a plus
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with resiliency design and operation
Experience and understanding of security & compliance
Experience managing large fleets
Experience with performance tuning and optimization
Expertise in Automation methodologies.
Disclaimer:
Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range: from $112,300 to $251,600 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:
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
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