Principal Software Developer Engineer

Who We Are

Oracle Sovereign Cloud builds and operates secure cloud capabilities for mission-critical government workloads. Our engineers build resilient services, automation, and integrations that support cloud operations in highly secure environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of application features, services, APIs, and integrations aligned to secure, scalable architecture.
• Develop and guide new application features and enhancements, including design specifications, implementation plans, and technical documentation.
• Lead code reviews across multiple application areas and coach engineers on quality, maintainability, security, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex application, API, service-to-service, integration, and production issues.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, scalability strategies, performance optimization, and periodic technical reviews.
• Implement comprehensive testing, observability, monitoring, error logging, and debugging practices.
• Collaborate with product, program, QA, operations, security, and customer-facing teams to align technical delivery with mission and business needs.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring, technical standards, and continuous improvement across the team.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with active US Government security clearance, TS/SCI with Poly, at hire.
• 11 years of software development experience; or bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field and 7 years of software development experience; or master's degree in a relevant technical field and 5 years of software development experience; or doctorate in a relevant technical field and 3 years of software development experience.
• 6 years of experience with programming and/or scripting languages.
• 4 years of experience with databases.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating distributed application services.
• Demonstrated experience with code review, automation, quality assurance, secure development practices, and technical mentorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• 11 years of software development experience or equivalent advanced degree plus experience.
• 3 years of experience with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• 1 year of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, service-oriented architecture, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, observability, and incident response.
• Experience delivering software in regulated, classified, sovereign, or air-gapped environments.

Pay

Hiring Range in USD from: $114,600 - $234,600 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

See details in the job description.

Application Instructions

Not specified.