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 build and operate secure, scalable application services for sovereign and government cloud environments. This role involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining secure application software, services, APIs, and integrations. Responsibilities include driving feature development, improving quality and reliability, translating requirements into designs, leading code reviews, troubleshooting issues, and mentoring junior engineers. The position requires U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI with Poly security clearance and a minimum of 8 years of software development experience, or equivalent educational background with relevant experience. Experience with various programming languages, databases, distributed systems, and secure development practices is essential. Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud platforms like OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP, and familiarity with microservices, CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes.
Required Skills
Other
software developmentapplication softwaremaintainabilityimplementation plansproduction issuesproduction support
Business, Sales & Management
Client ServicesPerformance ManagementInstructional DesignChange ManagementMentoring
Information Technology
REST APISystem IntegrationsQuality AssuranceReliability EngineeringTechnical DocumentationCode ReviewSecure Development PracticesDebuggingObservability
Engineering, Construction & Trades
Incident Investigation
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Root Cause AnalysisCollaboration
Design, Content & Media
Content Strategy
Nice to have:
Information Technology
IT InfrastructureAWSAzureGCPREST APIMicroservicesCI/CDContainerizationKubernetesLinuxObservabilityIncident ResponseTest EnvironmentsDemo Environments
Other
reliability improvementsovereign environments
🎁 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 (13-18 days annually), 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, pet insurance). May be eligible for bonus and equity.
Requirements
Requires U.S. Citizenship with active US Government security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly). A minimum of 8 years of software development experience is required, 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, and secure development practices is also necessary.
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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