Senior Application Software Engineer
Oracle · Seattle, WA
$87,000–$187,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and maintaining secure application services, APIs, and integrations for government and sovereign cloud environments, including air-gapped deployments. Day-to-day work spans feature development, production support, incident investigation, code review leadership, and mentoring junior engineers. Suited to experienced software engineers who hold an active TS/SCI with Poly clearance.
Senior level · 4+ years · National · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is an explicit hard gate at hire — candidates without an active clearance at that level cannot be considered.
The overall experience requirement is structured as alternatives: 8 years of software development experience OR a bachelor's degree plus 4 years OR a master's plus 2 years OR a doctorate. The minimum gated years of software development experience is therefore 2 (doctorate path), but the most common path without an advanced degree is 8 years. The overall years minimum is set to 4 (bachelor's path) as the practical floor for a degreed candidate, which is the most common hiring scenario.
Programming languages and databases are required by years-of-experience gates in the Minimum Qualifications but no specific languages or database products are named — they are captured generically as the JD provides no named technology to canonicalize.
Distributed systems, API development/integration, source control, debugging, and secure development are all listed as required experience in Minimum Qualifications but without specific named tools; only 'distributed systems' is retained as a named technical concept. Source control, debugging, and secure development are omitted as they are practices/concepts rather than named technologies.
REST, microservices, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure all appear exclusively under Preferred Qualifications.
No specific work location is stated in the posting beyond 'US'; the CBSA and state fields are left blank. The role is US-based given the citizenship and clearance requirements.
The posting notes the role may be eligible for bonus and equity in addition to the stated salary range.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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