Principal Software Developer 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., * 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.

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• 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.

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