Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is part of the Cloud Platform organization and is responsible for the design and build of core services used by internal and external customers. The Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering – Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team will lead the development of the Identity Service, a critical service within OCI that powers customer authentication for the OCI Console and Identity Platform services, supporting native authentication, federated identity providers, Single Sign-On (SSO), OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth2 flows, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and secure session management at Oracle Cloud scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner with organizational leaders to shape the product direction.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers in the OCI India Development Center.
• Drive the design, development, and delivery of scalable, reliable software services and frameworks.
• Establish engineering best practices and promote a culture of quality, accountability, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, architects, cloud operations, and security teams to define and execute technical strategy.
• Balance speed, quality, and innovation through iterative, incremental delivery practices.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance on architecture, scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Manage project priorities, resource planning, execution timelines, and stakeholder communication.
• Build an inclusive, high-performing engineering culture focused on continuous learning and career growth.
• Drive operational excellence by proactively identifying risks, improving processes, and ensuring system reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, and 10+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as Java, J2EE, REST, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, Python, cloud infrastructure, database architecture; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience.
• Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy for a team, aligning engineering efforts with product goals and organizational priorities.
• Experience leading teams through complex technical and organizational challenges, including cross-team collaboration and dependency management.
• Strong technical foundation, with the ability to guide architectural decisions, evaluate system tradeoffs, and maintain high standards of software quality.
• Proven track record of building and scaling engineering organizations in high-growth or ambiguous environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Domain knowledge of Identity and Access Management.
• Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle).
• Experience and understanding of multi-AD/AZ and regional data centers.
• Building continuous integration/deployment pipelines with robust testing and deployment schedules.
• Experience running 24x7 cloud services with stringent availability SLAs.
• Familiarity with modern observability, incident management, and operational excellence practices.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers.

Pay

U.S. hiring range: $120,000 – $306,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Salary ranges are determined by knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions, and location.

Benefits

• 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 for salaried employees; accrued vacation for others; 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed annually up to a 112-hour cap.
• Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal services.
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance.