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Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

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Nashville, TNFull-time$170–355K/yrPosted 4 days agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$170–355K/yr
Location
Nashville, TN
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The engineering Director will lead multiple software teams developing the GPU control plane and scaling AI infrastructure. The role covers customer APIs and workflows for bare-metal GPU capacity, NVLink domains, compute clusters, repairs, and firmware. The Director will set priorities across teams, develop senior managers and principal developers, and guide architecture for scalable, reliable, secure distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software Development, nice to haveC (Programming Language), nice to haveC++ (Programming Language), nice to haveC# (Programming Language), nice to haveJava (Programming Language), nice to haveGo (Programming Language), nice to havePeople Management, nice to haveSoftware Project Management, nice to haveDistributed Computing, nice to haveRust, requiredCross-Functional Leadership, requiredDistributed Systems Design, requiredCommunication, requiredCollaboration, requiredProject Management, requiredAdaptability, requiredTask Prioritization, requiredCloud Infrastructure Management, nice to haveKubernetes, nice to haveSlurm, nice to have

Qualifications

BS in Related Field or Equivalent, required10+ Years Software Development, required5+ Years People Management, required5+ Years Distributed Systems, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Here at OCI we’re building the world’s largest AI clusters and we’re the fastest at bringing them to the market. The AI Infrastructure organization at OCI is leading this effort by creating a GPU focused cloud with the latest hardware providing the best performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability. This is your chance to be part of the AI revolution by creating systems that allow customers to scale from tens to thousands of GPUs without compromising performance. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and make a significant impact on our organization's success. We are looking for an engineering Director to lead software teams responsible for developing GPU control plane and scaling AI infrastructure. This includes providing customer APIs and workflows to manage latest Baremetal GPU capacity through New Product integration, configuring NVLink domains, managing compute clusters, repairs and firmware for AI workloads. In this role, you will set and communicate priorities and expectations to multiple teams led by senior managers and strong lead developers working on cutting-edge technologies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance our AI infrastructure to deliver exceptional customer experience. Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives. True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs. We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing [email protected] or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States. Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law. We are looking for an engineering Director to lead multiple software teams responsible for developing GPU control plane and scaling AI infrastructure. This includes providing customer APIs and workflows to manage latest Baremetal GPU capacity through New Product integration, configuring NVLink domains, managing compute clusters, repairs and firmware for AI workloads. Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

  1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
  2. Short term disability and long term disability
  3. Life insurance and AD&D
  4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
  5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
  6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
  7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
  8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
  9. 11 paid holidays
  10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
  11. Paid parental leave
  12. Adoption assistance
  13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  14. Financial planning and group legal
  15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment. Key Responsibilities

  • Own and build solutions to scale and optimize GPU control plane with the goal to optimize customer experience and customer workload performance on our AI infrastructure.
  • Build higher performance engineering teams, create organization roadmap, define SMART goals, and track organization’s progress against­ committed OKRs and milestones.
  • Develop senior managers and Principal developers and drive modern software engineering practices like leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions, well-defined interfaces for customers and across components, design reviews, integration test and active production monitoring.
  • Prioritize organization’s work with focus on customer issues and requirements.
  • Ensure that team solutions are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, compliant and reusable.
  • Implements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.
  • Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
  • Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
  • Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
  • Provides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.
  • Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications & Skills

  • BS (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 10 years of experience in software development with programming languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, Go, Rust.
  • 5 years of experience in people management or leadership role while working on cross-functional projects.
  • 5 years of experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems, services, and infrastructure.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
  • Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in managing cloud infrastructure with hundreds of thousands of servers.
  • Experience in scheduling high-performance workloads on Kubernetes or Slurm.

How this job compares

Set against the 474 open Engineering Director jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$170–355K/yr
  • US median$156–355K/yr355 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $263K, is 7% below the US median midpoint ($283K) — in the middle half of Engineering Director salary ranges across the US.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 11 open Engineering Director jobs in Tennessee and 474 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Engineering Director postings that state a minimum ask for 10 years at the median (361 postings).
Education
218 of the 474 open Engineering Director jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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