Crypto Director, Platform Software Engineering

Description

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director, Software Development to lead the technical direction and execution of foundational OCI security and trust services. This leader will guide engineering teams responsible for identity, authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, KES, PKI, certificates, automation, monitoring, control-plane technologies, operational tooling, and cloud service efficiency.

The role combines technical leadership, team development, operational excellence, and cross-functional partnership for services that support OCI’s global cloud footprint and the internal and customer-facing products that depend on them.

Why OCI

OCI is building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for customers that depend on trust, resilience, and operational rigor at global scale. This role offers the opportunity to shape core security and trust foundations, influence engineering practices across OCI, and lead a high-performing organization responsible for services at the heart of customer confidence and cloud reliability.

Leads a platform group; develops strategies and plans that standardize runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across several teams. Accountable for group results and governance adherence; makes operational decisions ensuring compatibility, security, and performance. Sponsors cross-group innovation in resilience, capacity modeling, and interoperability. Communicates with executive leadership on platform health, risk, and adoption.

Responsibilities

Team Responsibilities

• Lead and grow engineering teams supporting OCI security and trust services.

• Define and execute technical roadmaps for identity, authentication, authorization, service-to-service trust, KMS, secrets, KES, PKI, and certificates.

• Drive the development of monitoring platforms, automation frameworks, control planes, and operational tooling.

• Partner with OCI, Security, Architecture, and Product organizations to align priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans.

• Improve operational efficiency through automation, observability, engineering excellence, and cloud service efficiency initiatives.

• Develop engineering managers and technical talent across the organization.

• Lead organizational planning, resource allocation, hiring, and team growth.

• Ensure operational readiness, reliability, scalability, and customer-focused outcomes for security-critical cloud services.

• Establish engineering best practices and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and service ownership.

Team Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience.

• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including experience leading managers and multiple engineering teams.

• Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams.

• Experience operating large-scale distributed cloud services.

• Strong systems architecture and operational leadership experience.

• Experience with monitoring, automation, observability, infrastructure platforms, or control-plane technologies.

• Proven ability to drive execution across complex technical and organizational boundaries.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud preferred.

Org Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development:

• Define platform strategy for a group, aligning runtimes, SDKs, and integration frameworks to interoperable, multi-tenant standards.

• Govern cross-group compatibility and security controls with SRE/security partners; approve high-risk migrations and deprecations.

• Own group-wide resilience and capacity objectives; institutionalize rollout, canary, and rollback patterns across services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

• Defines key elements for leads and/or teams to design multiple software solutions and identify and analyze requirements to ensure alignment with business and organizational goals.

• Applies broad understanding of other areas within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code.

• Leads design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple projects/programs.

• Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct leads and/or teams for conducting debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues.

• Directs leads and/or teams to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.

• Drives the optimization of design and development practices to improve performance across products and domains, ensuring adherence to organizational goals in execution of business priorities.

• Directs teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

• Directs teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Directs teams to design and develop software, systems, and services.

• Coaches managers to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.

• Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct teams in conducting periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders within and outside the organization to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities in focus.

• Directs teams to implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

• Defines processes and approaches to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• Collaborates with stakeholders within and outside of organization, including executive leadership, to understand customer issues and align solutions.

• Directs teams to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues.

• Leads teams and sets direction to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

• Influences multiple teams to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Directs the implementation of training for customer issue and/or defect handling processes.

• Leads the investigation and troubleshooting of complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with teams and leadership to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, evolving/dynamic industry best practices and processes, and coding standards.

• Ensures clarity on key elements and objectives for adherence to broad acceptance criteria to impact development processes in the organization.

• Implements complex secure software development practices to prevent security vulnerabilities that affect the organization.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Defines key elements for teams to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Ensures teams are aware of and adhere to service contract, terms, and conditions.

• Directs teams to proactively evolve standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities

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