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Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Senior Application Software Engineer

Full-Time
$87k - $187k/yr+ Bonus + Equity
Senior
United States
In Person
Software Engineering

About the job

Responsibilities
  • Drives medium features and quality improvements with measurable performance and reliability outcomes.
  • Provides global production support for critical issues with minimal guidance; improves playbooks/alerts.
  • Troubleshoots and debugs non-routine issues spanning application layers and common OCI services; proposes fixes.
  • Partners with QA to define test strategy (unit/integration) for features; ensures consistency across modules.
  • Considers trade-offs in existing architecture; proposes moderate design improvements.
  • Translates ambiguous requirements into scalable designs and implementation plans.
  • Defines and stabilizes API contracts and dependencies for the application area.
  • Recommends build priorities within the team using data from incidents, telemetry, and customer feedback.
  • Systematically incorporates external feedback (forums, live-site reports) into backlog refinement.
  • Mentors junior engineers; coordinates cross-functionally on feature delivery.
  • Designs software solutions and analyzes and helps identify requirements to achieve business and operational goals, independently.
  • Adheres to and suggests improvements to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Utilizes working knowledge to develop new software features and enhancements following design specifications and develops documents to clarify software design and code.
  • Leads code reviews in designated areas to help drive improvements.
  • Conducts debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix moderately complex software issues.
  • Develops fixes for identified issues.
  • Implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional testing), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging, ensuring review by manager and/or lead throughout the process.
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves moderately complex issues related to API functionality and integration.
  • Implements moderately complex API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
  • Designs and develops software, systems, and services aligned to pre-defined system architecture.
  • Develops working knowledge of software architecture decisions and best practices.
  • Collaborates with team leads to review work to ensure alignment with software architecture.
  • Implements moderately complex performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
  • Collaborates within and beyond immediate team to understand customer issues and align solutions.
  • May provide technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues, independently.
  • Coaches, mentors, and guides others to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
  • Influences team to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
  • Implements customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes, independently.
  • Investigates and troubleshoots complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.
  • Collaborates with the team to establish and follow development practices and coding standards.
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to ensure code quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.
  • Keeps up-to-date with industry best practices and applies them to software development processes.
  • Implements 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).
  • Exercises judgment and discretion to drive improvements, ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
  • Independently manages work, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure projects or initiatives stay on track and meet requirements.
  • Proactively prioritizes work and adapts to resource or timeline shifts, suggesting adjustments to maintain project efficiency.
  • Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
  • Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.
  • Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
  • Independently identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.
  • Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.
  • Contributes to knowledge sharing and best practices.
  • Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools and staying current with industry trends and best practices.
  • Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.
  • Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
  • Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.
  • Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

About the company

Oracle builds databases, business applications, and cloud infrastructure for companies and public-sector organizations. Oracle Database stores and processes business data, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides computing, storage, and networking for applications and AI workloads. Fusion Cloud Applications support finance, human resources, supply chains, and customer service, helping businesses manage everyday operations and reporting. Customers pay for cloud subscriptions and usage, software licenses, support, hardware, and consulting, with deployment options in Oracle's cloud or their own data centers. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Austin, Texas

Founded

1977

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Cloud infrastructure sales grew: Oracle reported $7.4 billion quarterly revenue, up 121% yearly, in September 2026.
  • Employees build transferable skills: Oracle offers free product certifications and access to Coursera, O'Reilly, and LinkedIn Learning.
  • Existing licenses create repeat business: Oracle sells annual technical support covering software updates, fixes, and assistance.

What critics are saying

  • Expansion consumes cash: Oracle reported negative $5 billion free cash flow for its August 2026 quarter despite profitable operations.
  • Job security faces active restructuring: Oracle's September 2026 filing added $700 million to a plan centered on employee severance.
  • Future datacenters lock in costs: Oracle's September 2026 filing lists $288 billion of future lease commitments, typically lasting 15-19 years.

What makes Oracle unique

  • Its database runs inside rival clouds: Oracle delivers native database services in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud datacenters.
  • Global expansion keeps one rate card: Oracle charges the same OCI service prices across regions, including government clouds.
  • Hardware participates in database work: Oracle's Exadata storage servers process data-intensive queries alongside specialized database servers and networking.

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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

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

3%
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