Senior Director, Core Infrastructure Engineering, VCN Dataplane at Oracle

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$193,600 – $414,400/yr

Location: Seattle, Washington · California
Type: Full-time
Level: lead/mgmt
Posted: Sep 22, 2026

Description

Oracle is hiring a Senior Director to lead a geographically distributed organization responsible for VCN Dataplane software. The role owns engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, production operations, service health, and organizational leadership, including scaling engineering managers and senior technical talent. It requires extensive cloud infrastructure and distributed systems experience, strong systems software and networking expertise, and the ability to lead production operations and cross-functional initiatives. The role offers a US hiring range of $193,600 to $414,400 per annum, with medical, dental, and vision insurance among the benefits.

Required Skills

Engineering strategy
Distributed systems
Packet processing
C/C++
Network virtualization
Incident management
Capacity planning

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: At least 10 years of engineering people-management experience, including leadership of multiple teams and management of engineering managers
Delivering and operating large-scale, business-critical cloud infrastructure or distributed systems
Experience with networking infrastructure, including network virtualization, packet processing, or high-performance networking
Leading production operations, including incident management, deployment safety, reliability improvements, and capacity planning
Recruiting and developing engineering managers and senior technical talent
Setting strategy, prioritizing investments, and delivering complex initiatives across organizational boundaries
Preferred Qualifications: Software Defined Networking, networking protocols, and network virtualization
Experience with SmartNICs, DPUs, hardware-assisted virtualization, or networking and storage offload
Experience with kernel networking, userspace packet processing, or other performance-sensitive dataplane software
Experience managing geographically distributed teams and operating infrastructure across multiple cloud regions
Translation Company Name: Oracle

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