Senior Director, Engineering - OCI Storage Innovation

Oracle

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Work type
On-site
Location
Nashville, TN
Salary
$193,600–$414,400 / yr
Posted
11 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $251k
This role $304k
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This role pays more than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $212,875–$288,650 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $304k versus about $251k for comparable roles.

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TL;DR · Senior Director, Engineering - OCI Storage Innovation

Sr. Director, Engineering - OCI Storage Innovation leads a large, geographically distributed engineering organization focused on the evolution of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure storage systems. This executive role involves overseeing teams responsible for maintaining production services, executing multi-year strategic infrastructure initiatives, and incubating next-generation technologies to support AI, agentic computing, and enterprise applications. The successful candidate will manage over 50 engineers while making critical architectural decisions regarding distributed systems, large-scale data movement, caching strategies, latency optimization, scalability, cost efficiency, and durability versus availability tradeoffs. Required expertise includes experience with large-scale system modernization, infrastructure refactoring, and managing complex challenges like recovery, throttling, and system reliability. The role requires a leader capable of balancing the maintenance of existing production workloads while driving innovation for future storage platforms within a global cloud environment.

What does a Engineering Director earn?

Median $307000 from 31 postings across 22 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a large, geographically distributed engineering organization responsible for OCI Storage innovation.
  • Maintain the reliability and continuous improvement of existing production systems.
  • Execute multi-year strategic infrastructure initiatives and new product incubations for next-generation storage technologies.
  • Drive architectural decisions regarding distributed systems, data movement, caching, latency, and scalability.
  • Build organizational capacity to balance operational excellence with ongoing technical innovation.
  • Define long-term technical strategies in partnership with other engineering leaders across the OCI platform.
  • Mentor and develop a high-performing leadership team while fostering a culture of accountability.

What we're looking for

  • Must have at least 10 years of experience.
  • Proven success leading engineering organizations responsible for large-scale distributed systems in the lower technology stack.
  • Experience managing and developing engineering leaders within organizations of 50+ engineers.
  • Experience leading large-scale system modernization or architectural refactoring initiatives.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
  • Expertise in solving complex infrastructure challenges involving data movement, recovery, throttling, caching, and reliability.
  • Experience leading engineering organizations within major cloud providers such as OCI, AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Must be able to read, write, and speak English.

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