Senior Application Software Engineer

🏢 Oracle
📍 Reston, United StatesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 2mo ago🔄 Updated: 2mo ago
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Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Application Software Engineer to develop and operate secure, scalable application services for sovereign and government cloud environments. The role involves building and maintaining software, services, and APIs, driving feature improvements, translating requirements into designs, leading code reviews, troubleshooting issues, and participating in production support. The position requires U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance. Candidates should have a strong background in software development, programming languages, and databases, with experience in distributed systems, secure development practices, and technical communication. Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud platforms, microservices, CI/CD, containers, and observability tools. The role offers a competitive salary range and a comprehensive benefits package.
Required Skills
Other
software developmentsource control
Information Technology
REST APIAI IntegrationDebuggingSecure Development PracticesTechnical DocumentationCode ReviewObservability
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Incident Investigation
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Root Cause AnalysisCollaboration
Business, Sales & Management
Change ManagementMentoring
Design, Content & Media
Content Strategy
Nice to have:
Information Technology
Cloud ComputingIT InfrastructureAWSAzureGCPREST APIMicroservicesCI/CDContainerizationKubernetesLinuxIncident Response
Other
reliability improvement
🎁 Benefits & Perks
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion; Short term and long term disability; Life insurance and AD&D; Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child); Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts; Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits; 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match; Paid time off (Flexible Vacation: 13 days annually for the first three years, 18 days annually thereafter for full-time employees); 11 paid holidays; Paid sick leave (72 hours annually); Paid parental leave; Adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Financial planning and group legal; Voluntary benefits (auto, homeowner and pet insurance). May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Requirements
Requires U.S. Citizenship with active US Government security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly). Minimum of 8 years of software development experience, or a bachelor's degree with 4 years of experience, or a master's degree with 2 years of experience, or a doctorate. Must have 4 years of experience with programming/scripting languages and 3 years of experience with databases. Experience with distributed systems, software engineering practices, API development, source control, debugging, and secure development is required, along with the ability to communicate technical ideas clearly. Preferred qualifications include cloud platform experience (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience with microservices, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, observability, and incident response.
Description

Senior Application Software Engineer

Position Overview

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Application Software Engineer to build and operate secure, scalable application services for sovereign and government cloud environments. This role will deliver medium-complexity features, improve quality and reliability, support production systems, and collaborate across engineering, QA, operations, and product teams to meet mission-critical customer needs.

Who We Are

Oracle Sovereign Cloud builds and operates secure cloud capabilities for mission-critical government workloads. Our engineers design and run critical systems that support government missions, including solutions for air-gapped regions.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain secure application software, services, APIs, and integrations.

  • Drive medium-sized features and quality improvements with measurable reliability, performance, and maintainability outcomes.

  • Translate ambiguous requirements into scalable designs, implementation plans, and technical documentation.

  • Lead code reviews in designated application areas and recommend improvements to development practices.

  • Troubleshoot and resolve moderately complex application, API, integration, and production issues.

  • Participate in production support, incident investigation, root cause analysis, observability improvements, and operational readiness.

  • Partner with QA and engineering teams to define test strategy and ensure consistency across modules.

  • Mentor junior engineers and collaborate cross-functionally on feature delivery and service improvements.

Minimum Qualifications 

  • U.S. Citizenship with active US Government security clearance, TS/SCI with Poly, at hire.

  • 8 years of software development experience; or bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and 4 years of software development experience; or master's degree in a relevant technical field and 2 years of software development experience; or doctorate in a relevant technical field.

  • 4 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages.

  • 3 years of experience with databases.

  • Experience with distributed systems, software engineering practices, API development or integration, source control, debugging, and secure development.

  • Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, implementation notes, code reviews, and operational handoffs.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • 8 years of software development experience or equivalent advanced degree plus experience.

  • 2 years of experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

  • Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, observability, incident response, and reliability improvement.

  • Experience contributing to production services in regulated, classified, sovereign, or air-gapped environments.

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