Senior Cloud App Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

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, guides engineers, and improves development practices across distributed systems.

The role requires US citizenship with active TS/SCI clearance and 11+ years of software development experience, with strong background in APIs, microservices, CI/CD,

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.

Responsibilities

• Drives feature development within an application.
• Provides global production support to cloud-based applications as needed for critical issues by applying a working knowledge of at least one specialty area.
• Troubleshoots and debugs routine and non-routine Oracle applications services and Oracle Cloud infrastructure, end-user application integrations, or acquisitions.
• Partners across QA and engineering teams to discuss changes impacting an application's functionality and ensures quality and consistency across specific applications.
• Translates requirements and features into a structured, scalable, maintainable, and performant code plan for an application.
• Discusses application requirements with the customer while considering scalability and reliability, and recommends build priorities within teams and defines build priorities within team.
• References and shares other sources of feedback (e.g., online forums, live site maintenance reports) to refine application requirements.
• Collaborates with Designers, Product Managers, Software Engineers, and stakeholders when evaluating and integrating customer specifications and business requirements.
• Designs software solutions and analyzes and identifies requirements to achieve business and operational goals, sharing results with manager upon completion.
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; provides guidance and coaching to engineers to drive improvements.
• Utilizes advanced knowledge to develop and guide new software features and enhancements leading design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads code reviews in multiple areas to help drive improvements.
• Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
• Develops fixes for identified issues.
• Implements comprehensive software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, sharing work with manager and/or lead upon completion.
• Conducts performance profiling and optimization of coding, building scalable solutions, and anticipating and resolving potential outcomes.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex issues related to API functionality and integration. Implements complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Implements and contributes to developing software, systems, and services, ensuring review by manager and/or senior technical leaders upon completion. Recommends project or design scope.
• Provides technical guidance and coaching to less experienced developers in existing software architecture.
• Contributes to periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and networks externally to ensure work aligns with software architecture.
• Implements complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Occasionally conducts technology research and evaluation for potential architectural changes that may have an impact on results for the team.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• May provide advanced technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.
• Advocates for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Provides input to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Identifies and implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.
• Investigates and troubleshoots complex and broad-reaching/scoped maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).
• Collaborates with the team and externally to follow development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.
• Participates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and ensures code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development, independently.
• Demonstrates and shares advanced knowledge of industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
• Implements complex secure coding practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.
• Performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities), sharing results with manager upon completion.
• Drives improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
• Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately sized project or initiative.
• Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.
• Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.
• Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
• Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams.

Skills

Security clearance

Software development

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Technical mentorship

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Master's degree in a relevant field

Doctorate in a relevant field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Linux

Cloud platforms

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 senior technical contributor leads complex design, guides engineers, and improves development practices across distributed systems.

The role requires US citizenship with active TS/SCI clearance and 11+ years of software development experience, with strong background in APIs, microservices, CI/CD,