VP, Engineering OCI Storage Innovation

About the role

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking an experienced engineering executive to lead the next evolution of its Storage organization. This is a unique opportunity to lead one of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's most strategically important engineering organizations during a period of rapid transformation. You will oversee engineering teams responsible for maintaining production services, completing large multi-year strategic initiatives, and incubating the next generation of storage technologies. The role involves defining how cloud storage evolves to support AI, agentic computing, and next-generation enterprise applications while leading teams operating at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead a large, geographically distributed engineering organization responsible for OCI Storage innovation.
• Ensure the reliability and continuous improvement of existing production systems.
• Deliver several large-scale, multi-year strategic infrastructure initiatives.
• Build new product incubations that will shape the future of OCI Storage.
• Drive the evolution of next-generation storage platforms designed to scale across Oracle's global cloud infrastructure.
• Lead architectural decisions involving distributed systems, large-scale data movement, caching strategies, latency optimization, scalability, cost efficiency, and durability versus availability tradeoffs.
• Create organizational capacity that enables engineering teams to continue innovating while maintaining operational excellence.
• Partner closely with engineering leaders across OCI to define long-term technical strategy and execution.
• Build, mentor, and develop high-performing engineering leaders and distributed teams while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Proven success leading engineering organizations responsible for large-scale distributed systems with a focus lower in the technology stack.
• Experience managing organizations of 50+ engineers, with demonstrated success building and developing engineering leaders.
• Experience leading large-scale system modernization or architectural refactoring initiatives.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Experience solving complex infrastructure challenges involving large-scale data movement, recovery, throttling, caching, and system reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution of existing production workloads while investing in future platform innovation.
• Experience leading engineering organizations within major cloud providers such as OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s degree is preferred for this role. An advanced degree is a plus, but not essential.

Pay

Hiring range in USD: $224,600 - $480,700 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 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 (13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter; accrual prorated for part-time employees working 20-34 hours per week)
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon date of hire, refreshes annually, with a maximum cap of 112 hours
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal services
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner, and pet insurance