Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering

Oracle

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On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CASeattle, WA
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$193,600–$414,400 / yr
Posted
56 days ago
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The Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering will lead a newly created organization within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure responsible for the Storage Media Layer. This leadership role involves building a team from the ground up to own the strategy, engineering, qualification, and lifecycle management of physical storage technologies. Key responsibilities include defining multi-year hardware roadmaps, managing vendor partnerships, and overseeing low-level platform software, firmware integration, and test automation. The successful candidate will manage technologies such as SSD, HDD, SMR, CMR, SATA, PCIe infrastructure, and emerging solutions like TLC, QLC, and CXL-enabled memory. This role solves the critical business problem of defining the hardware platform and reliability standards for hyperscale cloud storage, ensuring high performance, power efficiency, and density across a global infrastructure fleet.

Skills

OCI SSD HDD SMR CMR SATA PCIe Firmware Test Automation Hardware Validation TLC QLC NAND Computational Storage DPU CXL Reliability Engineering Fleet Telemetry

What you'll do

  • Define multi-year storage hardware and media roadmaps for OCI's global infrastructure.
  • Build and scale a new engineering organization from the ground up.
  • Lead the engineering of storage platforms including SSDs, HDDs, and storage controllers.
  • Drive low-level platform software development including firmware integration and diagnostics.
  • Manage executive technical relationships with leading storage technology vendors.
  • Establish engineering processes for media reliability, failure analysis, and fleet health monitoring.
  • Evaluate and adopt next-generation storage technologies like QLC, CXL, and DPU-enabled architectures.

What we're looking for

  • Applicants must be able to read, write, and speak English.
  • Candidates must have 10+ years of engineering leadership experience.
  • Candidates must have executive leadership experience building and scaling engineering organizations.
  • Candidates must have deep expertise in storage hardware platforms.
  • Candidates must have experience spanning hardware, firmware, and low-level platform software.
  • Candidates must have experience working directly with storage hardware suppliers.
  • Candidates must have experience owning hardware qualification and validation.
  • A bachelor’s degree is preferred (preferred).

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