Senior Application Software Engineer

Senior Application Software Engineer

Reston, VA, United States;
Austin, TX, United States;
Seattle, WA, United States

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.

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.

• 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.

• U.S. Citizenship with active U.S. 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.

• 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.

US:
Hiring Range in USD from: $87,000 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short‑term disability 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 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption…