Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Senior Manager, Compute Imaging

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a technically strong software development manager to lead a Compute Imaging engineering team within Foundational Imaging and Resources (FIR). The team builds and operates the software services, distribution systems, and automation that support the lifecycle of operating system and GPU images across OCI.

We are looking for a leader with substantial software development experience who can engage engineers directly on architecture, detailed design, code quality, testing, and implementation decisions. You should be comfortable reading production code, questioning design assumptions, evaluating technical trade-offs, and helping engineers resolve complex problems. You will combine that technical depth with strong people leadership, clear prioritization, and accountability for delivery.

This is a software development management role with end-to-end operational responsibility. You will lead the development of reliable imaging capabilities while using operational data to identify where better software, architecture, and automation can improve service quality and reduce manual work. Prior experience with cloud infrastructure or OS imaging is valuable; demonstrated success building production software and leading software engineers is central to this role.

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of software supporting image creation, qualification, publishing, distribution, and lifecycle management.
• Establish a clear technical direction and translate customer, platform, and operational requirements into engineering deliverables.
• Actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
• Constructively challenge engineers on correctness, failure handling, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Help the team evaluate alternatives, simplify designs, identify technical risks, and make well-supported implementation decisions.
• Maintain sufficient technical depth to distinguish symptoms from root causes and assess the quality of proposed solutions.
• Set expectations for maintainable code, clear service interfaces, automated testing, documentation, and production readiness.

• Ensure engineers validate normal operation, failure scenarios, recovery behavior, and compatibility before releasing changes.

Imaging and Distribution:

• Drive software improvements across image build, validation, release, and distribution workflows for OS and GPU images.

• Develop reliable mechanisms for tracking image versions, verifying artifact integrity, managing distribution state, and ensuring the correct images are available where they are needed.

• Guide the design of distributed workflows that handle partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, and interrupted transfers predictably.

• Establish release gates and recovery mechanisms that support controlled deployments, safe rollbacks, regional readiness, and dependable customer delivery.

• Partner with Compute, operating system, security, and service teams to support new shape qualification, image hardening, compliance requirements, and critical vulnerability releases.

• Turn cross-team dependencies into clear interfaces, ownership, and delivery plans.

Operations and Automation:

• Own the operational health of the team’s services and workflows, including monitoring, incident response, on-call readiness, and corrective actions.

• Lead technical investigation of production issues and ensure findings result in durable software improvements.

• Define actionable KPIs and service objectives for release timeliness, image quality, distribution success, remediation turnaround, and operational workload.

• Use telemetry to identify bottlenecks, detect regressions, and prioritize engineering investments.

• Lead the development of automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code that make imaging workflows repeatable, auditable, and recoverable.

• Reduce recurring manual interventions through well-designed services and tools, with measurable improvements in reliability and engineering efficiency.

Team and Delivery:

• Hire, coach, and develop software engineers. Provide specific technical feedback, set clear performance expectations, and help engineers strengthen their design, implementation, debugging, and ownership skills.

• Build a culture that values constructive technical debate, accountability, collaboration, and learning from production experience.

• Own a two-to-four-quarter roadmap that balances new capabilities, reliability improvements, security requirements, and technical debt.

• Break complex initiatives into achievable milestones, manage dependencies, and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly.

Relevant Experience:

• Successful candidates will bring a strong background developing production software and managing software engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to guide system design and evaluate implementation quality.

• Experience should include backend services or distributed systems, automated testing and delivery, and responsibility for software operating in production.

• Familiarity with Linux, cloud infrastructure, software packaging, artifact distribution, or image lifecycle management will be valuable.

• Equally important are sound technical judgment, effective engineering coaching, and a record of turning operational problems into lasting software improvements.

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: $146,300 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.
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.