Top Software Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Design and implement backend services, modernize legacy systems into microservices, ensure strong testing and production observability, and collaborate with Product and Engineering teams. The role requires independent project ownership, strong system design, AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude or Cursor, effective communication with nontechnical stakeholders, and adaptability in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Develop full-stack software and systems from concept through production, using Python, AI/ML tools, Kafka, streaming analytics, and relational databases. Improve system architecture, identify enhancements, and deliver end-to-end solutions for client challenges. The role may involve cybersecurity data analysis, CNO capabilities, mission analytics, SIGINT systems, and classified work requiring TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Build and optimize automated release engineering systems, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment tooling, and AWS cloud infrastructure. Ensure software delivery quality, security, compliance, and reliability. Lead complex projects, participate in on-call support, mentor teammates, and promote technical excellence. The role uses Go, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Backstage, AWS, and AI development tools.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Vanta’s third-party risk management products, including vendor onboarding, lifecycle management, monitoring workflows, data models, and platform abstractions. Write tested code, participate in reviews and architecture decisions, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing functionality. Experience with TypeScript, React or Node.js, web applications, databases, and REST or GraphQL APIs is expected.

Develops and maintains desktop and web-based software on Microsoft platforms using .NET, ASP.NET, C#, and Python. Responsibilities include detailed design, documentation, coding, optimization, unit testing, deployment, and improvements. The role also administers enterprise IT systems, develops custom software when commercial solutions are unavailable, and ensures compliance with government information assurance and security standards. This is a full-time onsite position supporting federal government operations and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Lead technical direction for a central infrastructure team supporting all product engineering. Design and maintain AWS infrastructure, Terraform modules, CI/CD workflows, observability, security, networking, cost-visibility tooling, and operational platforms. Coordinate multiple initiatives, improve reliability and incident response, establish paved roads adopted by feature teams, guide infrastructure strategy, and coach engineers across the organization.

Leads architecture, development, debugging, and optimization of embedded Linux platforms for automation products. Owns Yocto builds, kernel configuration, drivers, real-time applications, BSP integration, performance, security, and lifecycle strategy. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, resolves hardware-software issues, and collaborates with hardware, manufacturing, testing, and product teams on platform roadmaps and standards.

Develop and maintain backend services, microservices, REST APIs, and distributed applications supporting cyber training and range missions. Deploy and troubleshoot software in Kubernetes, cloud, virtualized, and infrastructure-as-code environments. Build automated tests, collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, networking, and cyber teams, and contribute to technical planning, code reviews, and PCTE, RangeOS, and JCWA capabilities. The role may also provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, and execution of AI performance, framework, benchmarking, and developer-productivity initiatives. Drives cross-team architecture, resolves complex systems trade-offs, mentors technical leaders, and contributes hands-on through prototyping, implementation, reviews, debugging, observability, and automation. Delivers measurable improvements in model onboarding speed, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity efficiency across models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and hardware.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Build and own end-to-end AI observability capabilities, including data ingestion, infrastructure, data models, and product visualizations. Develop systems that surface cost, token usage, errors, and anomalies across AI agents. Collaborate with product and design, ship customer-facing SaaS features, guide best practices, and iterate through experimentation. Participate in an on-call rotation after approximately 90 days.

Build and optimize distributed Lance dataset operations, high-performance indices, table formats, and data encodings in Rust. Develop integrations with Spark, Hive Metastore, Presto, Trino, Ray, and other data infrastructure systems. Improve internal data processing infrastructure, contribute to open-source communities, and promote Lance through technical conferences. The role requires deep distributed systems expertise and extensive experience with high-performance databases, big data, or AI training systems.

Build and maintain premium mobile features, subscription and in-app purchase flows, paywalls, pricing experiences, and advertising functionality for Life360’s consumer app. Own feature quality, performance, reliability, experimentation, and incident response at 100M+ user scale. Collaborate with product, design, data science, and analytics teams; use AI coding agents extensively; contribute to architecture and code reviews; mentor engineers; and help evolve AI-native engineering practices.

Lead software and infrastructure engineering for Azure AI services in air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments. Design, implement, test, deploy, and operate solutions across multiple codebases and architectures. Build automation, deployment tooling, observability, and release validation; troubleshoot complex production issues; participate in on-call support; collaborate across teams; and mentor engineers. The role requires active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph and U.S. citizenship verification.

Own end-to-end verification and validation for complex cloud-native software systems. Design comprehensive testing strategies, build scalable backend and frontend automation frameworks, identify coverage gaps, perform root cause analysis, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing efficiency. Apply AI-assisted tools to testing and debugging, evaluate emerging AI capabilities, mentor engineers, and raise quality standards across teams.

Evaluates AI coding-agent interactions for technical quality, engineering judgment, reasoning, explanations, and user trust. Provides detailed written and recorded feedback, distinguishes response quality levels, and helps define standards for tools such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This remote contract requires strong TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python experience, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and senior-level engineering judgment.

Evaluate AI coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for engineering judgment, response quality, reasoning, explanations, and usefulness. Provide clear written and recorded feedback, distinguish quality levels, and help define standards for excellent AI-assisted development interactions. This contract role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong Python or TypeScript/JavaScript skills, familiarity with modern AI development workflows, and excellent English communication.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for correctness, usefulness, engineering judgment, explanation quality, and user trust. Provide clear, opinionated written feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong TypeScript/JavaScript or Python skills, hands-on AI-assisted development experience, excellent English communication, and the ability to assess code without executing or reviewing every line.

Leads technical direction for large-scale accessibility systems that detect, remediate, and prevent web accessibility issues. Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable distributed systems; drives technical roadmaps; mentors engineers; partners with Product and Design; and promotes responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on software engineering across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, databases, storage, real-time data, and AI-enabled tooling.

Volunteer senior engineer to develop a cross-platform medical/wellness app (web, iOS, Android). Own full SDLC: design, coding, testing, data models, pipelines, deployments, and collaborate in Agile processes. Attend weekly standups and commit at least 4 hours weekly.

Build and operate full-stack certificate management, security, monitoring, and vulnerability products. Develop TypeScript APIs and React frontends, design MySQL schemas, manage AWS workers and Kubernetes infrastructure, maintain legacy .NET and Python services, integrate partner APIs, improve CI/CD and observability, participate in on-call support, and develop AI-assisted features. The role includes code reviews, testing, incident resolution, technical documentation, and mentoring engineers.

Develop performant, standards-compliant Firefox layout and Asynchronous Pan and Zoom features across multiple platforms. Responsibilities include writing and optimizing multithreaded C, C++, or Rust code; debugging rendering and interaction issues; developing layout, graphics, algorithms, and tools; reviewing code; testing and triaging bugs; and contributing to long-term open-source projects.

Develop and maintain high-performance, standards-compliant Firefox layout and rendering functionality, with a focus on Asynchronous Pan and Zoom. Responsibilities include implementing algorithms and user interaction techniques, debugging and optimizing multithreaded code, reviewing code, testing and triaging bugs, and collaborating on long-term platform development across Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, manage Octopus Deploy releases, configure Azure infrastructure, and develop C# code. Diagnose performance and production issues across applications, databases, pipelines, and infrastructure. Improve observability through logging, metrics, and alerting; conduct code reviews; troubleshoot complex problems; and collaborate with engineering and product teams to plan and deliver releases.