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Senior Application Software Engineer

reston, VA

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Oracle lists this Senior Application Software Engineer opportunity in reston, Virginia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

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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.

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

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