Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Job Description

Required to be in Nashville, TN.

OCI is transforming the developer platform experience. We are building an all-new application deployment system that will become a critical foundation for how developers build, validate, release, operate, and evolve services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This is an opportunity to lead a talented engineering team at the center of OCI’s next phase of growth.

As a Senior Manager, Software Development, you will lead a first-line engineering team building reliable, secure, and delightful deployment capabilities across the OCI Developer Platform. You will create the conditions for your team to deliver meaningful customer impact, grow engineers and technical leaders, and help establish industry-leading foundations for the rapid adoption of agentic engineering—without compromising the safety, governance, or reliability of our systems.

Required qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of professional software development experience, including 3+ years of engineering management or technical leadership experience.

• Strong programming skills in one or more modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, C#, Python, or similar.

• Experience leading teams that design, build, and operate scalable, highly available distributed systems, platform services, or developer tools.

• Solid understanding of cloud-native systems, including containers, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, or release engineering concepts.

• Demonstrated people leadership: you can hire and develop talent, set direction, manage execution, and create an environment where engineers do their best work.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build alignment across engineering disciplines, product, and senior stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following areas is a plus.

• Application deployment platforms, continuous delivery, GitOps, artifact management, or developer platform engineering.

• Cloud-native systems, multi-tenant services, control planes, workflow orchestration, or release engineering.

• Site reliability engineering, production incident management, observability, capacity planning, or performance engineering.

• Security engineering, identity and access management, policy-as-code, supply-chain security, or compliance automation.

• AI-assisted developer tools, agentic workflows, or safety and governance for autonomous or semi-autonomous systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of software engineers; set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and build an inclusive, accountable engineering culture.

• Own delivery for a portfolio of application deployment capabilities, from roadmap planning and technical design through implementation, launch, and ongoing operation.

• Partner with product managers, architects, security engineers, SREs, and peer managers to translate customer and platform needs into clear priorities and execution plans.

• Ensure the team designs and operates services with safety and reliability by default, including strong isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, and recovery paths.

• Guide the team’s technical direction for AI- and agent-assisted engineering workflows, ensuring sound controls, least-privilege access, governance, and appropriate human oversight.

• Use operational signals, customer feedback, and business priorities to improve developer experience, availability, performance, and deployment success rates.

• Build organizational capability through hiring, talent development, technical mentorship, career growth, operational rigor, and strong cross-team communication.

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: $120,000 to $306,400 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.

Career Level - M3

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