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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.

Responsibilities
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.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $87,000 to $187,000 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.
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.
Career Level - IC3
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