Experience Senior · 6+ yrs (5+ years)
About the role
structured by ORILead engineering teams building Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). Shape technical strategy, develop engineering leaders, and deliver secure, reliable Kubernetes infrastructure for enterprise applications and demanding AI/GPU workloads.
What you will do
- Lead, hire, coach, and develop engineering managers and software engineers. Build leadership capacity, establish clear expectations, and create a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
- Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for core OKE platform capabilities, balancing customer needs, feature delivery, reliability, security, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Own delivery across multiple teams, including prioritization, staffing, dependencies, milestones, and risk management. Turn ambiguous requirements into clear plans and measurable outcomes.
- Guide architecture and design for distributed systems that create, update, scale, repair, and operate Kubernetes clusters across OCI regions.
- Own service health and operational outcomes for your organization’s components of OKE, including availability, capacity, performance, operational readiness, and customer escalations.
What they are looking for
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating production software, including cloud infrastructure or distributed platform services.
- Demonstrated success leading multiple engineering teams, managing engineering managers, developing technical leaders, and delivering complex initiatives across organizational boundaries.
- Deep Kubernetes expertise and practical understanding of control plane architecture, cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, scalability, and production failure modes.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including availability, consistency, fault tolerance, performance, and operational tradeoffs.
- Hands-on cloud infrastructure experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, or a comparable large-scale environment.
- Strong software development background and the ability to guide design and implementation in Go and Java, supported by practical Linux, networking, and debugging knowledge.
- Experience owning production service operations, incident response, safe change management, and sustained reliability improvements.
- Strong judgment, communication, and execution skills, with the ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change.
Nice to have
- Experience building managed Kubernetes services or operating Kubernetes infrastructure at substantial scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes networking and storage integrations, including CNI, CSI, Cilium, Calico, or equivalent technologies.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, distributed training or inference, GPU scheduling, device plugins, or high-performance networking.
- Experience improving engineering productivity through automation and responsible AI-assisted or agentic workflows.
- Contributions to Kubernetes or related cloud native open-source projects.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation (salaried) or Accrued Vacation
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Full posting text
Lead engineering teams building Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE). Shape technical strategy, develop engineering leaders, and deliver secure, reliable Kubernetes infrastructure for enterprise applications and demanding AI/GPU workloads.