Director, Platform Software Engineering

Location: Nashville, TN, United States

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) builds and operates cloud services that help customers solve some of their largest technical and business challenges. Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE), OCI’s managed Kubernetes service, enables customers to deploy, run, scale, and secure Kubernetes workloads with integrated compute, networking, storage, identity, and observability.

We are seeking a Director of Platform Software Engineering to lead teams responsible for core OKE platform capabilities. In this role, you will manage and develop engineering managers and senior technical leaders, set technical direction, and own delivery and operational outcomes for critical components of a highly available, globally distributed, 24x7 cloud service.

Your organization will advance Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, orchestration, control plane reliability, scalability, performance, security, automation, and integration with OCI infrastructure. You will help evolve OKE to support larger clusters, more demanding enterprise workloads, and emerging AI and accelerated computing use cases.

This role requires deep Kubernetes knowledge, cloud infrastructure experience, strong distributed systems fundamentals, and a demonstrated ability to deliver through multiple engineering teams. You should be comfortable examining architecture and production behavior in detail, challenging technical assumptions, and guiding difficult decisions while empowering managers and engineers to own execution.

As a leader within OKE, you will partner with product management, senior architects, operations, and other OCI service teams to translate customer needs into a clear strategy and an achievable roadmap. Success requires sound judgment under ambiguity, disciplined execution, strong communication, and a commitment to developing people and improving the customer experience.

You will also guide the adoption of responsible AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices across design, implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and operations. We expect you to help teams improve productivity while maintaining clear accountability for correctness, security, and production quality.

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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.