Product Manager/Strategy 5-ProdDev , Kafka

Description

As a Product Manager for Oracle’s Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ) and Sagas framework, you will play a vital role in shaping the future of Oracle’s event-driven, transactional, and microservices-oriented systems. TxEventQ provides high-performance, transaction-based messaging, while the Saga framework offers a unified approach to developing distributed business transactions in modern microservices environments. You will work across teams to innovate, enhance, and grow these products, making them integral to Oracle Database 23ai and its cloud offerings. Your contributions will simplify complex, distributed transactions for customers and enhance the development of reliable, asynchronous applications.

 

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in product management with expertise in enterprise messaging, database technologies, and transaction-based services.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, transactional messaging systems, and the Saga pattern for managing distributed transactions.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar messaging systems, with knowledge of how these systems integrate with databases and transaction management.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and high-availability systems.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value and present these to diverse audiences.
• Familiarity with Oracle Database is highly desirable.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environments while balancing short-term and long-term priorities.

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and roadmap for Transactional Event Queues (TxEventQ) and Sagas, ensuring alignment with Oracle’s broader database and cloud services.
• Drive the development of features that enhance TxEventQ for event-driven, transactional messaging systems and Sagas for managing distributed transactions.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement and release features
• Analyze market trends and customer feedback to identify new opportunities for TxEventQ and Saga framework growth.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle, from conceptualization through launch, ensuring that features meet customer needs while aligning with Oracle’s long-term product strategy.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in marketing, sales, and support to drive successful go-to-market strategies for both products.
• Create clear product documentation, supporting both internal and external stakeholders to understand and adopt TxEventQ and Sagas.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on Sagas and TxEventQ for customers, presenting at industry events, and engaging with customer feedback.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $114,500 to $251,600 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.