We need a highly talented Senior Director of SW Development for the Compute organization to help lead Virtual Machine Infrastructure. This role will be managing large engineering teams, delivering distributed systems, operating them in multiple regions, and coaching and growing managers and engineers.

We are specifically looking for a hands-on, leader to build and lead OS Imaging, OS Agents and LSE recovery automation team for Compute. The successful candidate will be at the forefront of building a cutting-edge, ultra-high-performance Virtual Machine Infrastructure (VMI) and OS Imaging platform designed to support millions of VMs running on thousands of Hypervisors supporting hundreds of customer workloads

Our team is the Data plane team in Compute Org. we are responsible for designing and developing fundamental architectural changes for VM delivery for CPU and GPU workloads, health monitoring, triage automation, and diagnostic services. These are essential for running distributed application workloads across thousands of VMs, leveraging technologies latest virtualization technologies

This person will lead a team of software managers and other senior engineers, directly aligned with our most strategic customers.  This team is focused on the success of these customers, including business planning, operations, health and performance, delivery planning, and cross-organizational coordination to address customer needs across our organization.

This high-visibility and high-impact role will help shape our future infrastructure business and enable growth. The role comes with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy and will require effective engagement across all cross-organizational functions to deliver results.

You should have a strong multidisciplinary operations, technology and engineering management background. You should also have a track record of influencing and presenting to senior business and technology leaders and driving critical delivery initiatives at the highest levels. Strong executive communications, customer engagement, and business analytics skills are essential.