Director, Platform Software Engineering

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Director to lead and scale the Identity Platform engineering organization within OCI Identity and Cryptography. In this role, you will define the technical strategy, drive architecture and platform innovation, and build reliable, secure, and scalable cloud infrastructure capabilities. You will lead engineering teams and managers, champion operational excellence, automation, AI-enabled development, and modern engineering practices, and collaborate across OCI organizations to deliver foundational identity platform services. The ideal candidate brings strong technical leadership, deep distributed systems expertise, and a proven ability to execute complex, cross-functional initiatives at cloud scale.

This role requires relocation to Nashville, TN.

As a Software Engineering Director, you will:

• Lead and grow the engineering organization responsible for Identity Platform within the OCI Identity and Cryptography organization.
• Define and execute the engineering strategy and roadmap for the platform.
• Build standardized platform capabilities that simplify how OCI Identity services are deployed, operated, and scaled across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Own organizational planning, execution, staffing, and delivery across multiple strategic initiatives while balancing customer commitments, operational excellence, and long-term platform investments.
• Drive engineering effectiveness through modern software engineering practices, automation, AI-enabled engineering, CI/CD, and developer tooling.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineering managers and technical leaders, and raising the engineering bar.
• Deliver reliable, scalable, and observable platform services with a strong focus on operational excellence, automation, and reliability engineering.
• Partner across OCI Identity and OCI Infrastructure organizations to align roadmaps, influence platform strategy, and deliver foundational cloud capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Design:

• Provides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Influences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.
• Holds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.
• Drives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other services across the department.

System Design & Architecture – System Reliability Performance:

• Drives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Directs the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.

System Design & Architecture – Correctness / Availability:

• Implements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.
• Provides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.
• Oversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.

Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:

• Provides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.
• Directs strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Drives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.
• Provides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.

Compliance & Security:

• 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.
• Oversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.
• Drives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Automation & Change Management:

• Provides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Drives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.

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: $122,500 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.