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 government cloud environments. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software, services, APIs, and integrations, while also driving feature improvements and ensuring quality and reliability. Responsibilities include translating requirements into designs, leading code reviews, troubleshooting complex issues, participating in production support, and mentoring junior engineers. Minimum qualifications include U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance. Candidates should have 8 years of software development experience, or a relevant bachelor's degree with 4 years of experience, or a master's degree with 2 years of experience, or a doctorate. Experience with programming/scripting languages (4 years), databases (3 years), distributed systems, software engineering practices, API development, integration, source control, debugging, and secure development is required. Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud platforms (OCI, AWS, Azure, GCP), RESTful APIs, microservices, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, observability, and incident response.
Required Skills
Other
software developmentsource controlimplementation plansproduction support
Information Technology
REST APIAI IntegrationDebuggingSecure Development PracticesTechnical DocumentationCode ReviewObservability
Business, Sales & Management
Instructional DesignMentoring
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Incident Investigation
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Root Cause AnalysisCollaborationCommunication
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; short term and long term disability; life insurance and AD&D; supplemental life insurance; 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/Accrued Vacation); 11 paid holidays; Paid sick leave; Paid parental leave; Adoption assistance; Employee Stock Purchase Plan; Financial planning and group legal; Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance.
Requirements
Requires U.S. Citizenship with an active US Government security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly). Education and experience requirements include: 8 years of software development experience, or a bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field 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, 3 years of experience with databases, and experience with distributed systems, software engineering practices, API development, integration, source control, debugging, and secure development. Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly is essential.
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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