Senior Manager, Compute Imaging
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a technically strong software development manager to lead a Compute Imaging engineering team within Foundational Imaging and Resources (FIR). The team builds and operates the software services, distribution systems, and automation that support the lifecycle of operating system and GPU images across OCI.
We are looking for a leader with substantial software development experience who can engage engineers directly on architecture, detailed design, code quality, testing, and implementation decisions. You should be comfortable reading production code, questioning design assumptions, evaluating technical trade-offs, and helping engineers resolve complex problems. You will combine that technical depth with strong people leadership, clear prioritization, and accountability for delivery.
This is a software development management role with end-to-end operational responsibility. You will lead the development of reliable imaging capabilities while using operational data to identify where better software, architecture, and automation can improve service quality and reduce manual work. Prior experience with cloud infrastructure or OS imaging is valuable; demonstrated success building production software and leading software engineers is central to this role.
- Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of software supporting image creation, qualification, publishing, distribution, and lifecycle management.
- Establish a clear technical direction and translate customer, platform, and operational requirements into engineering deliverables.
- Actively participate in architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Constructively challenge engineers on correctness, failure handling, scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Help the team evaluate alternatives, simplify designs, identify technical risks, and make well-supported implementation decisions.
- Maintain sufficient technical depth to distinguish symptoms from root causes and assess the quality of proposed solutions.
- Set expectations for maintainable code, clear service interfaces, automated testing, documentation, and production readiness.
- Ensure engineers validate normal operation, failure scenarios, recovery behavior, and compatibility before releasing changes.
Imaging and Distribution:
- Drive software improvements across image build, validation, release, and distribution workflows for OS and GPU images.
- Develop reliable mechanisms for tracking image versions, verifying artifact integrity, managing distribution state, and ensuring the correct images are available where they are needed.
- Guide the design of distributed workflows that handle partial failures, retries, duplicate requests, and interrupted transfers predictably.
- Establish release gates and recovery mechanisms that support controlled deployments, safe rollbacks, regional readiness, and dependable customer delivery.
- Partner with Compute, operating system, security, and service teams to support new shape qualification, image hardening, compliance requirements, and critical vulnerability releases.
- Turn cross-team dependencies into clear interfaces, ownership, and delivery plans.
Operations and Automation:
- Own the operational health of the team’s services and workflows, including monitoring, incident response, on-call readiness, and corrective actions.
- Lead technical investigation of production issues and ensure findings result in durable software improvements.
- Define actionable KPIs and service objectives for release timeliness, image quality, distribution success, remediation turnaround, and operational workload.
- Use telemetry to identify bottlenecks, detect regressions, and prioritize engineering investments.
- Lead the development of automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code that make imaging workflows repeatable, auditable, and recoverable.
- Reduce recurring manual interventions through well-designed services and tools, with measurable improvements in reliability and engineering efficiency.
Team and Delivery:
- Hire, coach, and develop software engineers. Provide specific technical feedback, set clear performance expectations, and help engineers strengthen their design, implementation, debugging, and ownership skills.
- Build a culture that values constructive technical debate, accountability, collaboration, and learning from production experience.
- Own a two-to-four-quarter roadmap that balances new capabilities, reliability improvements, security requirements, and technical debt.
- Break complex initiatives into achievable milestones, manage dependencies, and communicate progress, risks, and trade-offs clearly.
Relevant Experience:
- Successful candidates will bring a strong background developing production software and managing software engineering teams, with demonstrated ability to guide system design and evaluate implementation quality.
- Experience should include backend services or distributed systems, automated testing and delivery, and responsibility for software operating in production.
- Familiarity with Linux, cloud infrastructure, software packaging, artifact distribution, or image lifecycle management will be valuable.
- Equally important are sound technical judgment, effective engineering coaching, and a record of turning operational problems into lasting software improvements.
Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
- 9 years of experience in software development
OR
- Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development
OR
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 5 years of experience in software development
OR
- Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development
OR
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 3 years of experience in software development
OR
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, or related field AND 1 year of experience in software development.
Job Skills:
- Same skills as prior level, plus:
- Agile Methodologies: Demonstrated ability to use agile methodologies to drive continuous improvement and product delivery.
- Automation: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of automation, including designing, implementing, and managing automated tools, processes, or systems to streamline operations.
- Compliance: Demonstrated knowledge of and adherence to regulatory, legal, and organizational compliance requirements.
- Data Management: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data management, including designing, operationalizing, securing, and monitoring data pipelines.
- Data Integration: Demonstrated ability in or knowledge of data integration, including specifying and using services to load and manage data from various sources.
- Patent Innovation / Filing: Demonstrated ability to prepare, file, and manage patent applications for innovative products or technology.
Cloud – Cloud Platforms Experience:
- 3 years of professional experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle Cloud).
Testing and Automation Experience:
- 6 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
Distributed Systems Experience:
- 2 years of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
- 10 years of experience in software development
OR
- Bachelor’s of Technology (B.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development
OR
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 6 years of experience in software development
OR
- Master’s of Technology (M.Tech) Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
- Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 4 years of experience in software development
OR
- Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Business Administration, or related field AND 2 years of experience in software development.
People Leadership / Management Experience:
- 2 years of experience in a technical lead role with direct reports.
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