Director of Software Development - Security Products Group (JoinOCI-Leader)
OracleWashington-seattleUpdate time: August 31,2021
Job Description

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

 Preferred Qualifications 

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.  OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

We offer unique opportunities for engineering leaders with the expertise and passion to build teams to solve difficult problems in distributed highly available services and virtualized infrastructure.  At every level, our leaders have a significant technical and business impact designing and building innovative new systems to power our customer’s business critical applications. 

What is Security Products Group at OCI?

OCI Security Products Group is building comprehensive product portfolios to protect customers’ cloud environments with innovative approaches and hyperscale efficiency. Our core security pillars are: customer isolation, data encryption, security controls, visibility. Our vision is to build the most secure cloud environment for our customers to build their applications confidently on top of OCI. We are making strategic decision to heavily invest on detecting system vulnerabilities and threat activities, correlate and analyze problems, then remediate, notify and block attacks from malicious actors against customer cloud environment.

You can read about our #cryptography products here : https://lnkd.in/gRJ4iHe. We recently had major releases like Secrets: https://lnkd.in/ggWzyg2 and Backup/Restore, Virtual Vaults etc.. We have similar major releases coming up for crypto family of products. Additionally, we are also working on a couple of V1 product families launching in CY20Q4. 

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for Director of Software Development with expertise and passion in building teams, coaching individuals and solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.

As a Director of Software Development, you will build and lead the software development organization to define, design, develop and operate for major components of Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The biggest challenges for the team are reliability, performance and keep up in cybersecurity space. The dynamic and fast growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns with full coverage that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.

We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right tradeoffs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

You should be responsible to provide leadership, direction and strategy to the team, establish and develop the team to meet and execute on the strategy, work with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of your team and other related teams. We expect you to deliver large scale projects on-time with high quality.

Required Qualifications 

  • MS or BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

  • 3+ years of experience managing Software Engineering teams and managers. Experincedelivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed services

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience

  • Strong communication skills, analytical skills, and project management skill

  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals

  • Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience developing services on a public cloud platform (e.g., AWS, Azure, Oracle)

  • Building teams and organizations in a v1 product development setting

  • Experience working with internal customers and translating requests into prioritized work or features

  • Experience and understanding of Cryptography, or similar security and compliance knowledge

  • Experience working with large enterprise customers

Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

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.

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.



This is a remote/office based position which may be performed anywhere in the United States except for within the state of Colorado.

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

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