As a Senior Manager of Platform Software Engineering at Oracle, you will lead and develop engineering teams responsible for building high-scale platform services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Kubernetes. Your role involves managing control-plane services that provision environments, deploy workloads, manage metadata and secrets, and enforce policies to ensure secure operations at scale. You will establish clear service ownership, set technical direction, and partner with OCI, security, SRE, and product teams to deliver reliable platform services. Key responsibilities include hiring and coaching engineers, setting strategic goals, and fostering a culture of observability and incident response. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in distributed systems, stakeholder management, and technical leadership, leveraging tools like AI-assisted technologies for efficient development and operations. This role is crucial for Oracle's SaaS businesses, focusing on the Spectra Platform, which requires deep technical expertise and strong engineering leadership skills to manage large-scale, multi-tenant environments.
Lead and grow engineering teams building high-scale platform services for Oracle SaaS on OCI and Kubernetes.
Establish clear service ownership, including APIs, architecture, production readiness, operations, and customer support for each team.
Own delivery and operations for control-plane services that provision environments, deploy workloads, manage metadata and secrets, and automate lifecycle operations.
Set technical direction with architects and senior engineers, balancing reliability, security, scalability, operability, and delivery speed.
Build a strong service-ownership culture around observability, incident response, on-call quality, root-cause analysis, and durable production fixes.
What we're looking for
10+ years of experience in software engineering and team management.
Proven track record of leading teams developing high-scale platform services.
Expertise in Kubernetes, networking, ingress, service mesh, and certificate management.
Strong technical leadership with a focus on reliability, security, scalability, and operability.
Experience in partnering across multiple teams to deliver complex cloud-based initiatives.
Ability to hire, coach, and develop managers and senior engineers effectively.
Market check
Salary context
This
$118,300–$251,600
range sits above
60%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$132,500–$227,550
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$148,356–$217,725
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 240 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
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About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is a leading multinational technology company specializing in database software, cloud computing, and enterprise software.
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