Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Baton Rouge, LA

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

Serve as the senior technical engineer on a delivery team, writing production code, shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, diagnosing complex issues, and owning software quality and reliability. Build TypeScript and JavaScript applications using Node.js, Express, React, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, testing, and observability. Modernize legacy systems, manage integrations and data synchronization, and use AI tools and automation to improve engineering workflows and delivery.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and user trust. Provide rigorous, opinionated feedback distinguishing response quality levels and help define best practices for tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires strong software engineering expertise, familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, and the ability to assess code and explanations without deeply reviewing or executing every line.

Design, develop, and implement scalable software solutions and modern applications for consumer banking. Collaborate in an Agile environment, contribute to architectural and design decisions, build distributed service-based components, and incorporate scalability, manageability, and maintainability. The engineer will work across multiple initiatives, collaborate with teammates, mentor engineers, and help deliver consumer-facing products.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own work from architecture through production deployment, translate ambiguous user needs into pragmatic solutions, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, address technical debt, resolve production issues, mentor teammates, and help establish engineering standards in a remote-first startup environment.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own work from architecture through production deployment, translate user needs into pragmatic solutions, make architectural decisions, improve reliability and performance, address technical debt, resolve production issues, mentor teammates, and help establish engineering standards in a remote-first startup.

Work on frontend, backend, full-stack, or data/platform engineering to design, build, and operate high-scale systems and AI-enabled user experiences. Responsibilities include building distributed backends, data pipelines, performant UIs, integrating AI features, owning projects end-to-end, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver production-quality software.

Build and maintain full-stack features across Ruby on Rails, React, and Flutter. Own architecture, development, deployment, reliability, and performance of critical systems. Translate user needs into pragmatic solutions, address technical debt, mentor teammates, contribute to engineering standards, and resolve production issues. The role requires strong backend expertise, database knowledge, security awareness, startup adaptability, and product-minded ownership.

Senior Java engineer delivering AI-augmented production features and modernizations across a Java/Python/AWS stack. Pair with engineers to embed agentic practices, own systems end-to-end, participate in AI-augmented reviews, and judge agent use versus human intervention.

Senior Java engineer delivering AI-augmented production features and modernizations across a Java/Python/AWS stack. Own systems end-to-end, pair with engineers to transfer agentic practices, perform AI-augmented code reviews, and judge when to trust or intervene with agent outputs.

Deliver production features and AI-powered modernizations using agentic development. Build and operate multi-agent workflows, pair with engineers to transfer agentic practices, validate agent output, maintain software quality, meet sprint commitments, reduce backlog, and produce scalable, well-documented code.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

Develop distributed, production-grade microservice systems and scalable data-processing infrastructure on Linux. Lead service mesh, contract-first API, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers initiatives; design fault-tolerant architectures and observability systems; operate containerized distributed platforms; and mentor junior and mid-level engineers. The role also emphasizes AI-assisted development, technical communication, and documentation, with preferred experience in industrial automation, monorepos, real-time processing, edge computing, and infrastructure as code.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Architect, implement, and optimize live and on-demand streaming pipelines in Wowza. Design scalable transcoding and packaging workflows, integrate accelerators, debug performance issues, support cross-functional projects, and serve as a streaming domain expert.

Own and advance Chainguard’s internal Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and Agentic AI tooling. Improve developer experience, build reliability, change throughput, observability, and secure software delivery. Design scalable platform architecture, consolidate build systems, establish standardized delivery blueprints, automate developer toil, partner with engineering teams, and mentor engineers while contributing to technical direction and DORA-aligned outcomes.

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Design, build, and operate shared cloud infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Databricks, and Cloudflare. Lead SRE and DevOps initiatives involving reliability, observability, CI/CD, incident response, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and developer self-service. Partner with application and data engineering teams to improve workload operations, deployment safety, and infrastructure scalability. Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to technical standards, architecture, documentation, and sustainable 24/7 operations.

Design, build, and maintain secure, performant browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, and other browsers using Manifest V3 and modern APIs. Develop features integrating with web content, backend services, and endpoint agents; optimize reliability; monitor evolving browser standards; and participate in testing, code reviews, and process improvement. The role requires investigating third-party web applications, understanding extension security models, and coordinating effectively with backend and non-browser engineering teams.

Define architecture and technical direction for Catalyst’s distributed data platform, including messaging, state management, reconciliation, streaming, storage, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations. Build Go and Python frameworks, improve reliability and SLOs, lead incident response, maintain secure dependency and artifact delivery, and develop infrastructure automation. Collaborate across teams and with customers, review designs and code, establish engineering standards, and travel internationally up to 25% to support mission-critical deployments.

Owns the architecture and implementation of high-performance real-time streaming systems, including media ingestion, buffering, relay, packetization, telemetry synchronization, and distribution. Designs protocol modules, resolves interoperability challenges, improves latency and throughput, and maintains production reliability through testing, observability, incident response, and automated deployments. Partners with stakeholders, documents architectural trade-offs, mentors engineers, leads technical rituals, and travels internationally up to 25% to support customer and mission requirements.

Design, implement, and support high-performance storage and query infrastructure handling billions of events. Independently scope and deliver complex projects, optimize query performance, improve reliability, participate in on-call rotations, define KPIs and SLOs, reduce operational toil, debug production issues, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.