Principal Application Engineer, Sovereign Cloud (Equity)

Oracle; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence seeks a Principal Application Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure application services for sovereign and government cloud environments.

This role is a senior technical contributor who leads complex design and implementation work, guides engineers, improves application development practices, and resolves complex production and integration issues across distributed systems.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship with TS/SCI clearance required at hire.
• 11+ years in software development (or applicable degrees with experience).
• 6 years programming or scripting experience.
• 4 years of database experience.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating distributed application services.
• Experience with code reviews, automation, quality assurance, secure development practices, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Drives feature development within an application.
• Provides global production support to cloud-based applications as needed for critical issues.
• Troubleshoots and debugs Oracle applications and Oracle Cloud infrastructure end‑user integrations.
• Collaborates with QA and engineering teams to discuss changes impacting an application's functionality and ensures quality and consistency.
• Considers designs of the existing software architecture when developing code for applications.
• Transforms requirements and features into a structured, scalable, maintainable, and performant code plan.
• Discusses application requirements with the customer while considering scalability and reliability.

Skills

Programming languages

Databases

Distributed systems

Code review & security

Technical mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Doctorate

Tools

Kubernetes

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Job description

Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence seeks a Principal Application Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure application services for sovereign and government cloud environments.

This role is a senior technical contributor who leads complex design and implementation work, guides engineers, improves application development practices, and resolves complex production and integration issues across distributed systems.