Senior Application Software Engineer

Oracle's Government, Defense & Intelligence group is pursuing a Senior Application Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable application services for sovereign and government cloud environments. The role emphasizes delivering medium-complexity features, improving quality and reliability, and supporting production systems that underlie critical government missions. This onsite position is based in Reston, Virginia, and involves close collaboration with engineering, QA, operations, and product teams to meet stringent security and reliability requirements.

Position Overview

As a Senior Application Software Engineer, you will build and operate secure, scalable application services for sovereign and government cloud environments, delivering medium-complexity features while enhancing quality and reliability. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, QA, operations, and product teams to ensure production systems meet mission-critical customer needs.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Technologies

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• RESTful APIs
• Microservices
• CI/CD
• Containers
• Kubernetes
• Linux

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.