Senior Director, Software Development

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical, product, and organizational strategy for one or more charters within Light-weight Infrastructure (Core Compute, Connectivity & State, Observability & Governance).
• Lead a diverse, globally distributed team to design and deliver 0→1 services that form the foundational layer of Autonomous OCI.
• Hire and develop top engineering talent (both managers and ICs) to build a high-performing team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, integrity, and high professional standards.
• Communicate effectively across the organization — from engineers to architects to executives.
• Mentor teams through architecture and security reviews.
• Establish practices that drive continuous improvement in engineering execution, leadership, and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years at a senior management level, with experience of managing managers and staff engineers.
• 10+ years of relevant distributed systems or cloud services experience.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar degree.
• Strong business and communication skills.
• Exceptional leadership and people management skills.
• Solid understanding of core cloud infrastructure, such as compute, virtual networking and storage.
• Strong distributed systems architecture and design skills.