About OCI and the Container Instances Team:
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is at the forefront of bringing reliable, scalable, and high-performance cloud solutions to clients worldwide. The Container Instances team develops the Oracle Container Instances platform—empowering customers to seamlessly run containerized applications on serverless, compute-optimized infrastructure. Our platform is designed for speed, flexibility, and simplicity, supporting use cases from APIs and web applications to CI/CD jobs, data processing, automation, and dev/test environments.

Role Overview:
We seek a dynamic Senior Manager to lead the Container Instances engineering team. In this role, you’ll drive the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Container Instances, collaborating across OCI to ensure our platform meets the highest standards of reliability, security, and performance. You'll mentor a high-performing team and partner with product, operations, and customer success teams to deliver innovative solutions that delight customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and mentor a team of software engineers responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of the Oracle Container Instances platform.
Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, from requirements gathering and architecture to development, testing, deployment, and customer support.
Collaborate closely with Product Management to shape vision, roadmap, and feature prioritization.
Drive initiatives to improve the reliability, scalability, and security of the platform.
Build and foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning within the team.
Champion best practices in cloud-native development, DevOps, and container orchestration.
Partner with cross-functional stakeholders, including SRE, Security, and Support teams, to deliver seamless customer experiences.
Attract, hire, and retain top engineering talent.
Monitor and analyze service metrics, and continuously drive operational improvements.

Preferred Qualifications:

8+ years of experience in software development, ideally building large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
3+ years of experience in a technical leadership or management role, with a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams.
Deep understanding of container technologies (Docker, OCI runtime), serverless platforms, and cloud computing concepts.
Experience designing and operating mission-critical, high-availability systems.
Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Java, Go, Python, C++) and experience with modern CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Strong communication, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

Nice to Have:

Experience with virtualization and/or container orchestration systems.
Experience leading teams in an agile environment.
Prior experience with customer-facing cloud products.

Why Oracle:
Join a passionate and innovative team at the forefront of cloud technology. At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you will help shape the future of compute platforms, impacting the success of mission-critical applications worldwide.

As a world leader in cloud solutions, Oracle uses tomorrow’s technology to tackle today’s challenges. We’ve partnered with industry-leaders in almost every sector—and continue to thrive after 40+ years of change by operating with integrity.

We know that true innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.

Oracle careers open the door to global opportunities where work-life balance flourishes. We offer competitive benefits based on parity and consistency and support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling +1 888 404 2494 in the United States.

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. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Join Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as a Management leader leading the Container Instances team. You’ll drive the vision, development, and operations of a fast-growing, serverless compute platform for containerized workloads. We’re seeking a hands-on leader passionate about cloud technologies, containers, and building and mentoring teams that deliver reliable, high-performance cloud services. If you’re excited by the challenges of shaping cloud-native products at scale, we’d love to meet you.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $118,300 to $251,600 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

As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your 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 suggest improvements to the architecture.

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