Senior Engineering Manager, OCI Data Management Services

posted 2 months ago

Job Description

Description

Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

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 suggest improvements to the architecture.

Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of sections. Ensures appropriate operational planning is effectively executed to meet Corporate specifications. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.

Responsibilities
Description About OCI

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide 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.

We offer unique opportunities for smart, hands-on engineers with the expertise and passion to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure. At every level, our engineers have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications. 

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Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly distributed systems? If so, then Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. We’re looking for strong technical leaders with backgrounds in distributed systems and storage to help build a highly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment on a massive scale.

You will never be bored in this job. We need people with a passion towards customer satisfaction and expertise in distributed systems, storage, and highly available services. How will we build this? It could be up to you but we apply solid engineering and design principles to develop world-class, highly available services.

We are still at an early stage and an entrepreneurial, fast-paced mentality is critical for success in this position: a passionate can-do attitude, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to collaborate while acting, as a thought leader in your area of expertise will serve you well on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure Team. Does this sound like a challenge you’re ready for?

Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure team is building second-generation Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate in a broadly-distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.

Our mission is to provide our customers with best-in-class compute, networking, and storage services to build their businesses on our cloud.

About OCI Data Management Services (DMS)

At OCI DMS, we are on the mission to be the world’s best one-stop cloud service provider of prominent data management services. Some of the services we are building are Search Service with Open Search, Caching Service with Redis, and Database Service with Postgres and there are a few others in the pipeline. We intend to solve the polyglot persistence problem along with addressing the complexity, cost and scaling issues that come with using these services in a self-managed setup.

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 Job Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced leader who enjoys building complex, highly technical products and service from ground up. As a member of the Data Management team, you will help us define the future of services used daily by both customers and internal teams.

  • Providing leadership, direction, and strategy for a growing team. 
  • Establishing and developing the organisational capacity needed to execute on strategy. 
  • Mentoring and developing junior engineers to senior levels. 
  • Successfully leading a local team as part of a larger geographically distributed organization.  
  • Delivering large-scale project on-time with the high quality.
  • Overseeing operational teams supporting products in production under customer load.
  • Working with OCI leadership, senior engineers, program managers, and product managers to develop compelling products and services that meet customer needs.
  • Providing guidance and constructive feedback to team members and other stakeholders.
  • Raising the bar for product quality and customer experience.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in the software industry with 3+ years in Engineering Management leading agile teams on design, development, and delivery of highly scalable products.
  • Strong, demonstrable track record for hiring and retaining top-tier talent.
  • Outstanding verbal and written communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate a vision and get people invested in success.
  • Exposure to the process and nuances of operationalising and supporting products and services used by thousands of customers simultaneously.
  • Ability to create, drive and evangelize cross-team processes and achieve org-wide impact.
  • Knowledge of Java programming language and its ecosystem.
  • Good understanding of Microservice based architectures, Distributed systems, Databases and Cloud.
  • Familiarity with one or more of the following is preferable – Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres, etc.
  • Previous experience leading engineering teams in cloud computing, enterprise software, or fast-paced start-ups is highly desirable.