Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 99,600 - 209,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Savings and company match

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

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 senior technical contributor leads complex design and implementation work and serves as a technical lead for AI-enabled software capabilities.

You will mentor engineers, review code for reliability and security, and collaborate across product, QA, operations, and security teams to ensure

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with TS/SCI security clearance at hire.
• 11 years of software development experience or advanced degree and related experience.
• 6 years programming and/or scripting experience.
• 4 years of database experience.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating distributed services.
• Demonstrated code review, automation, quality assurance, secure development practices, and mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of secure, scalable application features and APIs.
• Develop guidance for new features with specs, plans, and docs.
• Lead code reviews and coach on security, quality, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex application, API, and production issues.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, scalability, performance, and reviews.
• Implement testing, observability, monitoring, and logging practices.
• Collaborate with product, QA, operations, security, and customers to align delivery with mission needs.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and standards.

Skills

Security clearance TS/SCI with Poly

Software development

Distributed systems

Code review & mentorship

AI-enabled software

Cloud platforms (OCI/AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field

Master's degree in a relevant technical field

Doctorate in a relevant technical field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Observability tooling

Job description

Principal Application Software Engineer – Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence

Position Overview: Oracle Government Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Principal Application Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure application services for sovereign and government cloud environments. This senior technical contributor leads complex design and implementation work, guides engineers, improves application development practices, and resolves complex production and integration issues across distributed systems. The role also serves as a technical lead for AI‑enabled software capabilities, including secure application architecture, governed data integrations, evaluation tooling, and production‑ready operational workflows.

Key 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.
• Design and implement AI‑enabled software capabilities, including secure service integrations, workflow orchestration, evaluation tooling, operational data access, and production application features.
• Define engineering patterns for testing, validating, monitoring, and operating AI‑enabled software, including reliability, latency, quality, failure handling, auditability, and safe degradation.
• Lead technical design for governed access to approved operational data sources and ensure AI‑enabled features provide evidence‑grounded, supportable outputs.
• Mentor engineers on secure implementation, observability, debugging, and operational readiness for AI‑enabled software in sovereign or restricted environments.

Minimum Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship with active U.S. 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.
• Experience building production AI‑enabled software, including secure application integrations, evaluation frameworks, workflow automation, model‑serving integrations, operational data platforms, or observability for AI‑enabled systems.

Disclaimer and Requirements

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 Benefits

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $99,600 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short‑term disability and long‑term disability
• Life insurance and AD&DD
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre‑tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation for salaried (non‑overtime eligible) positions; accrued vacation for other employees. Accrual rate: 13 days annually for first three years; 18 days for subsequent years. Prorated vacation for 20‑34 hours per week. No vacation for fewer than 20 hours per week.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance carries over up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

Career Level – IC4

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