Senior Director Performance Engineering - Storage

Job Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best-in-class compute, storage, networking, database, security, and an ever-expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.

We are specifically looking for a hands-on, leader to build and lead a performance engineering team for Block Storage, Object Storage, File Storage and other storage services that are planned for the future. The successful candidate will integrate with the product management and engineering teams to drive short term performance optimizations as well as build a performance engineering center of excellence in the long term. The candidate will have 10+ years of experience building core storage infrastructure in addition to 5 plus years of experience building and leading a high-performance engineering team.

Career Level - M5

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Drive performance engineering best practices across services including hardware and software testing as well as drive relevant changes through the organization.

• Build and lead a world class performance engineering team.

• Collaborate with Product Management to define performance requirements.

• Develop the best practices and programs to periodically test and establish benchmarks for current services.

• Periodically run performance benchmarks for competitive services

• Collaborate with the field engineers and solutions architects to drive performance optimizations for key large customers.

• As required test and validate third party software and services that fill key gaps and/or improve the customer experience.

• Report and communicate findings periodically with executives.

Required Qualification

• 10+ years experience with building core IaaS services

• Demonstrated ability of building strong software engineering teams.

• Proficiency in performance testing tools such as JMeter.

• Strong understanding of storage software performance bottlenecks and methodologies to optimize.

• A demonstrated ability to think broadly and strategically.

• Self-driven problem solver; able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and customer-focused environment.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate (oral and written) at different levels in the org, engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Disclaimer

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $192,000 to $321,600 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.

About Us

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Disclaimer:

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