Cloud Engineering Infrastructure Development\:  Software Development Director – AI Cognitive Decision Services

Locations\:  Seattle, All locations in Bay Area, Austin

 

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

 

Values are OCI’s foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

 

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you’ll belong and be encouraged.

 

This role is available in the AI Cognitive Decision Services Team. We are addressing exciting challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge cloud infrastructure. We are building cloud services in natural language processing (NLP) and, computer vision that work out of the box for enterprises. Our product vision includes ability for enterprises to be able to customize the services for their business and train them to specialize on their data by creating micro models that enhance the global AI models.

 Responsibilities

• Come in at ground level and build new AI Cognitive Decision services from scratch.
• Inspire a culture of 'Always On' Service Operations in the team
• Organize, Anticipate, Plan 24x7x365 Service Operations for multiple services
• Present weekly to upper management - Service Escalations and Statistics along with Corrective Actions/Preventive Actions
• Interface with Architects and technical leads to steer them to continuous Feature Improvements
• Directly and indirectly manage Globally Distributed engineering team that is fast growing
• Allocate resources, set priorities, and manage schedules for the team. Work across the platform organization to define and provide inputs to the technology strategy, infrastructure and architecture vision that supports the successful execution of the product roadmap and business strategy.
• Feed the Service Operations requirements, challenges into service development teams for continuous improvements
• Responsible to Hire outstanding SDEs, SREs in a competitive environment. Proven ability to motivate, align, and manage high performing, happy and empowered developers.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Strong technical understanding in building Scalable high Performance services
• Proven track record on running Operations for a Cloud Service
• Deep knowledge of Compute, Network, Storage systems on a large scale
• Experience working with Distributed Systems
• AI / ML systems and Heterogeneous Databases Operations experience a plus
• Experience working in the below areas and algorithms will be ideal but not mandatory\:
  • Decision Support vertical\: Anomaly Detection, fraud detection, time series forecasting, Recommendation systems, Personalizer.
  • Algorithms\: K-means, Fourier transformation,  Statistical hypothesis, SVM, Kernel Regression, LSTM, State Estimation Technique.
• At least 12 years of software development experience of which 2-4 years of cloud services development environment.
• 5-12 years of senior management experience
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field

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.

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As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.

Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Oracle is an Affirmative Action-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, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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