Senior Director, Software Development

Are you passionate about taking on big challenges and building cloud-scale products from the ground up? Do you thrive in leading distributed systems and driving complex initiatives across teams? If so, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Networking has an exciting opportunity for you.

This Senior Director role **leads and owns the data path for one or more virtual network functions such as Network Load Balancer, Private Endpoint, and gateway services** , with responsibility for building, operating, and evolving **high-performance, low-latency** virtual networking services for OCI. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability of network services, reducing end-to-end network latency, scaling OCI’s global network footprint, accelerating site launches, and delivering the stability and feature richness required for customer and internal workloads.

We’re looking for a strong technical leader with deep experience in distributed systems and networking, and a passion for customer success. You will play a pivotal role in defining strategy, delivering new services, and growing the organization to support OCI’s expanding multi-cloud footprint.

You will apply your experience and vision to define long-term strategic direction, improve service reliability and operability, and deliver innovative solutions that meet evolving customer needs. You will influence priorities both within your space and across the broader Networking org. A key part of your role will also be recruiting and developing a high-performing team capable of delivering complex, large-scale initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Define service strategy and roadmap in partnership with Product Management.
• Represent your organization at the VP and SVP levels.
• Collaborate across teams and leadership to identify customer and product requirements, coordinate delivery, and integrate solutions to meet business needs.
• Build and lead a cohesive engineering team capable of delivering high-quality results on time.
• Influence cross-team decisions to align priorities and drive execution at scale.

**Qualification**

• 10+ years of experience designing, delivering, and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• 7+ years of experience leading large organizations, including managing multiple layers of leadership.
• Proven success mentoring and growing senior engineers and people managers.
• Prior ownership of SaaS or IaaS services in a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of networking, distributed systems, and high-performance computing fundamentals.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and product development skills.

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent relevant experience.

**About the Team**

OCI is building the future of the cloud for enterprise customers. We operate with the speed and boldness of a startup, backed by the scale and stability of Oracle. Our team is fast-growing and entrepreneurial - success in this role requires a can-do attitude, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to influence across boundaries while acting as a thought leader.

Ready to take on your next big challenge? Join us and grow your career at Oracle!