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As a Software Engineering Manager on the Multi-cloud team, you will lead a team of engineers building and operating services and platforms that enable cloud integration, interoperability, automation, and reliable service delivery. Your team will work across OCI, Oracle, and external partner teams to solve complex
distributed systems problems involving cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security, commercial integration, operability, and customer-facing service reliability.

This is an AI-first team. We use AI-assisted engineering tools, including Codex, as part of our daily development workflow. You will be expected to model and drive effective use of AI across the team to improve engineering productivity, automate repetitive tasks, accelerate troubleshooting, improve documentation and testing, and increase the quality and maintainability of our systems. You will also guide the team in creating reusable prompts, workflows, tools, and AI skills that improve team execution.

You will be accountable for team delivery, engineering quality, operational readiness, production reliability, and the growth and development engineers. This includes setting priorities, clarifying ownership, reviewing designs, improving execution processes, supporting incident response, ensuring durable follow-up from operational reviews, and helping engineers grow through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and career development.

The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in cloud services, distributed systems, APIs, containerized services, and production operations, combined with the ability to lead people, manage execution, and collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, including experience designing, building, and operating production-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or integration platforms.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineers as a people manager, technical lead, team lead, or equivalent role with responsibility for execution, mentoring, planning, and delivery.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Strong technical judgment in cloud services, distributed systems, service- oriented architecture, APIs, reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Experience managing or leading engineers working with Java-based services or similar systems/application programming environments such as Python, Go, C/C++, or C#.
• Experience with Linux-based containerized services, including Docker, Kubernetes, service configuration, networking, scaling, health checks, observability, and production troubleshooting.
  Experience with RESTful APIs over HTTPS, including API contracts, authentication, authorization, error handling, retries, timeouts, backward compatibility, and production debugging.
• Experience driving operational excellence for production services, including on-call readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, operational reviews, corrective actions, automation, monitoring, alerting, and supportability improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical planning and execution across multiple engineers, including roadmap planning, milestone tracking, risk management, dependency management, and delivery communication.
• Experience coaching and developing engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging support, operational readiness reviews, feedback, performance conversations, and career development.
• Hands-on familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools, and the ability to guide teams in using these tools responsibly and effectively.
• Ability to promote reusable prompts, workflows, tools, or AI skills that improve engineering productivity, quality, documentation, testing, debugging, and operational workflows.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, security, or multi-cloud environments.
• Ability to collaborate across product, engineering, operations, support, security, partner, and leadership teams.
• Willingness to participate in operational escalations and support production services as part of the team's reliability and incident response responsibilities

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That's why we're committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.

We're committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com or by calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $133,100 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - M3

As a Software Engineering Manager on the Multi-cloud team, you will lead engineers responsible for designing, building, deploying, and operating Java-based cloud services, RESTful APIs, and containerized workloads on Kubernetes. You will own team execution, delivery planning, prioritization, risk management,
and operational readiness. You will partner with engineers to clarify ownership, review designs, remove blockers, and drive projects from architecture through production. 

You will raise the engineering bar for reliability, scalability, security, supportability, and maintainability by improving observability, alerting, automation, testing, deployment safety, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident follow-up.

You will coach and develop engineers through feedback, mentoring, growth planning, design reviews, debugging support, and operational guidance. You will drive effective use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to improve productivity, code quality,
documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and operational workflows.

You will represent the team across OCI, Oracle, and partner organizations, communicating status, risks, dependencies, tradeoffs, and decisions clearly to stakeholders and leadership.