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Software Development Snr Manager

BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, India

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• Job Identification337474
• Job CategoryProduct and Research
• Posting Date06/17/2026, 09:26 PM
• RolePeople Manager
• Job TypeRegular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance?No
• Years10+ years
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languagesEnglish

Job Description

A Senior Software Development Manager (Senior SDM) at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is responsible for delivering cloud services at scale while leading multiple engineering teams, managers, or a large organization of engineers. The role extends well beyond people management and includes technical strategy, execution, operational excellence, and cross-organizational leadership.

Responsibilities

1. Engineering Leadership

A Senior SDM:

• Leads one or more engineering teams (often 20 to 100+ engineers through managers and technical leads).

• Hires, mentors, and develops engineering managers and senior engineers.

• Builds a high-performance engineering culture.

• Conducts performance reviews, promotions, succession planning, and career development.

• Resolves organizational issues and improves team effectiveness.

2. Technical Strategy

Although they may not write production code regularly, Senior SDMs are expected to:

• Define long-term technical vision.

• Review architecture for scalability and reliability.

• Drive technology choices.

• Ensure systems meet OCI standards for:

• Availability

• Security

• Performance

• Compliance

• Cost efficiency

They work closely with:

• Principal Engineers

• Distinguished Engineers

• Architects

• Product Management

3. Program and Execution Management

Senior SDMs own delivery across multiple initiatives by:

• Defining engineering roadmaps.

• Breaking down large programs into milestones.

• Managing dependencies across teams.

• Tracking execution risks.

• Ensuring predictable delivery.

Typical deliverables include:

• Quarterly OKRs

• Release plans

• Sprint health

• Delivery metrics

• Resource planning

4. Operational Excellence

OCI services operate continuously, so Senior SDMs emphasize operational maturity by:

• Driving service reliability.

• Reviewing incident reports (SEVs).

• Improving operational readiness.

• Monitoring key metrics such as:

• Availability

• Latency

• Error rates

• Capacity

• Cost

They ensure teams have:

• Runbooks

• Monitoring

• Alerting

• Disaster recovery plans

• Automation

• Strong on-call processes

5. Cross-Organization Collaboration

OCI engineering involves many interconnected services. Senior SDMs coordinate with:

• Product Management

• Security

• Networking

• Compute

• Storage

• Database

• Release Engineering

• Customer Support

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Executive leadership

They frequently negotiate priorities, align roadmaps, and resolve technical dependencies.

6. Customer Focus

Responsibilities include

• Understanding customer requirements.

• Reviewing escalations.

• Participating in executive customer discussions.

• Prioritizing critical fixes.

• Improving customer experience based on feedback and operational data.

7. Security and Compliance

OCI places strong emphasis on security. Senior SDMs ensure teams follow secure engineering practices by:

• Conducting security reviews.

• Managing vulnerability remediation.

• Meeting compliance requirements.

• Supporting audits.

• Enforcing secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices.

8. Budget and Resource Management

Senior SDMs typically:

• Plan headcount.

• Forecast hiring needs.

• Allocate engineering resources.

• Manage vendor or contractor engagements where applicable.

• Balance staffing across priorities.

9. Stakeholder Communication

Regular communication includes updates to directors, VPs, and peer organizations on:

• Project status

• Risks

• Staffing

• Delivery forecasts

• Service health

• Incident summaries

• Strategic planning

Clear communication is a significant part of the role.

10. Organizational Improvement

Senior SDMs drive continuous improvement by:

• Standardizing engineering processes.

• Increasing development velocity.

• Improving code quality.

• Reducing technical debt.

• Strengthening engineering metrics.

• Encouraging automation.

• Fostering innovation and knowledge sharing.

Typical Daily Activities

A Senior SDM’s day may include:

• Reviewing dashboards for service health and operational metrics.

• Meeting with engineering managers on staffing and delivery.

• Participating in architecture and design reviews.

• Handling production incidents or customer escalations.

• Conducting one-on-one meetings with managers and senior engineers.

• Reviewing hiring plans and interviewing candidates.

• Coordinating with product managers on roadmap priorities.

• Preparing executive updates and quarterly business reviews.

• Removing blockers across teams and organizations.

Leadership Expectations

Beyond execution, OCI Senior SDMs are generally expected to:

• Think strategically about the evolution of cloud services over multiple years.

• Build and empower strong engineering leaders.

• Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous learning.

• Make informed decisions using data and operational insights.

• Balance rapid delivery with long-term maintainability and reliability.

• Represent their organization effectively in discussions with executives, partners, and customers.

In practice, a Senior SDM at OCI succeeds by combining engineering judgment, organizational leadership, operational discipline, and the ability to deliver highly reliable cloud services at enterprise scale.

Qualifications/Skills

Educational Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.

• Master’s degree (MS) is often preferred for some organizations.

• Equivalent industry experience is highly valued.

Technical Qualifications

Candidates are generally expected to have experience with:

Large-scale distributed systems

• Cloud-native architectures

• Microservices

• High availability and fault tolerance

• Distributed databases

• Event-driven systems

• APIs and service-oriented architectures

Cloud technologies

• Public cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)

• Kubernetes and container orchestration

• Infrastructure as Code

• CI/CD pipelines

• Observability and monitoring

Software engineering

• Strong understanding of software design principles

• System architecture and design reviews

• Code quality and engineering best practices

• Security-by-design

• Performance optimization

• Scalability engineering

Operational excellence

• Incident management

• Root cause analysis

• Service reliability engineering (SRE) concepts

• Capacity planning

• Disaster recovery

• Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

Leadership Experience

Typical expectations include:

• 10 to 15+ years of software engineering experience.

• 5 to 10+ years of engineering management experience.

• Experience leading multiple teams or managers.

• Experience managing organizations of 20 to 100+ engineers, depending on the level.

• Demonstrated success hiring, mentoring, and developing engineering talent.

Program Management Skills

A Senior SDM should be able to:

• Lead complex, multi-team programs.

• Manage cross-functional dependencies.

• Prioritize competing initiatives.

• Balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture.

• Identify and mitigate delivery risks.

• Drive execution across geographically distributed teams.

Communication Skills

Strong communication is essential, including the ability to:

• Present technical concepts to executives.

• Influence stakeholders without formal authority.

• Lead cross-functional discussions.

• Manage customer escalations.

• Write clear technical strategies and status updates.

• Facilitate decision-making across teams.

People Management Skills

Senior SDMs are expected to excel at:

• Coaching engineering managers.

• Building high-performing teams.

• Performance management.

• Succession planning.

• Conflict resolution.

• Career development.

• Diversity and inclusion initiatives.

• Creating a culture of accountability and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Career Level - M3

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