Principal Application Software Engineer

Oracle; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and holidays

401(k) Savings and company match

Disability insurance

Equity

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 role leads complex design, mentors engineers, and drives secure software practices across distributed systems, with emphasis on AI-enabled capabilities.

The role involves shaping architecture, governance of data, evaluation tooling, and production-ready workflows while collaborating with

Qualifications

• US Citizenship with active US Government security clearance (TS/SCI with Poly) at hire.
• 11+ years of software development experience or equivalent combinations.
• 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.
• Proven experience with code review, automation, quality assurance, secure development practices, and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of application features, services, APIs, and integrations aligned to secure, scalable architecture.
• Develop and guide new application features with design specs, implementation plans, and technical documentation.
• Lead code reviews across multiple areas and coach engineers on quality, security, and operational readiness.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex application, API, service-to-service, integration, and production issues.
• Design engineering patterns for testing, monitoring, and operating AI-enabled software.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

Code reviews / mentorship

Security practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field

Master's degree in a relevant technical field

Doctorate in a relevant technical field

Job description

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 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. This role will serve as a technical lead for AI-enabled software capabilities, including secure application architecture, governed data integrations, evaluation tooling, and production-ready operational workflows.

Job Description

Principal Application Software Engineer

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 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. This role will serve as a technical lead for AI-enabled software capabilities, including secure application architecture, governed data integrations, evaluation tooling, and production-ready operational workflows.

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.

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 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.
• 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

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 benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

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

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• 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 is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year 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

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC4

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