Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

NetSuite is part of Oracle, which is building the cloud foundation for Oracle's SaaS businesses. The Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering will manage and develop engineering teams responsible for building control-plane services and foundational Kubernetes infrastructure for the Spectra Platform.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow engineering teams building high-scale platform services for Oracle SaaS on OCI and Kubernetes
• Establish clear service ownership for each team, including APIs, architecture, production readiness, operations, on-call health, customer support, and long-term technical direction
• Own delivery and operations for control-plane services that provision environments, deploy workloads, manage metadata and secrets, and automate lifecycle operations
• Own foundational Kubernetes services for networking, ingress, service mesh, private connectivity, certificate management, and admission-control policy enforcement
• Set technical direction with architects and senior engineers, balancing reliability, security, scalability, operability, and delivery speed
• Drive planning, backlog management, architecture reviews, execution, and release readiness for multiple high-priority platform initiatives
• Build a strong service-ownership culture around observability, runbooks, incident response, on-call quality, root-cause analysis, customer impact, and durable production fixes
• Model responsible use of approved AI-assisted tools in day-to-day leadership work, and encourage engineers to use them to improve design, coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and operations
• Partner with OCI service teams, Oracle SaaS teams, security, site reliability engineering, product management, and release automation to deliver cross-organizational programs
• Hire, coach, and develop managers and engineers; create clear expectations, feedback loops, career growth, and succession plans
• Communicate strategy, status, tradeoffs, and risks clearly to senior engineering leaders, partner teams, and platform customers

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or related field
• Experience managing engineering teams
• Strong understanding of cloud-native services and Kubernetes
• Ability to set technical direction and manage execution
• Experience with service ownership, including APIs, architecture, and production readiness
• Strong communication skills to convey strategy, status, tradeoffs, and risks
• Experience in hiring, coaching, and developing engineering leaders and teams
• Ability to partner across multiple teams and organizations
• Experience with observability, incident response, and production fixes