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Senior Application Software Engineer

Oracle · Seattle, WA · Yesterday
Engineering$87k–$187k/yrFull-time

About the role

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.

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

  • 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.

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