Top Software Engineer Jobs

Develop and maintain high-fidelity, real-time C++ simulation software for SpaceX flight systems. Build simulation infrastructure and physics models, prototype designs, optimize performance, improve reliability, and collaborate with engineering teams and software users. The role involves debugging, unit testing, distributed computing, networking, and supporting simulations for Falcon, Dragon, Starlink, and Starship missions.

Develop and maintain high-fidelity, real-time simulation software for SpaceX vehicles and flight systems. Build core simulation infrastructure and physics models, prototype design concepts, improve software reliability and performance, and collaborate with simulation users and engineering teams to deliver new features. The role requires strong C++ development, debugging, optimization, testing, and knowledge of distributed systems, networking, memory management, CPU scheduling, physics, and mathematics.

Build, enhance, and maintain software and database systems supporting telemetry, tracking, and command platforms. Responsibilities include software development interfacing with hardware, Oracle and PostgreSQL database engineering, schema design, migrations, performance tuning, data integration, troubleshooting, customer support, and SDLC participation in Agile environments. The role also supports database modernization, third-party application customization, documentation, and technical communication with leadership.

Integrate and productionize astrodynamics algorithms into flight dynamics systems using Python and C++. Develop, test, validate, document, and maintain mission-critical software for orbit determination, trajectory planning, maneuver execution, and spacecraft operations. Support simulations, mission rehearsals, live flight operations, issue triage, releases, automation, and fleet-scale workflows while collaborating across engineering, mission planning, and flight operations teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop backend systems and APIs, mentor other engineers, and resolve complex integration challenges in healthcare technology.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance the core product by developing features and tools for Chainguard Images, collaborating with teams and ensuring product quality.

Build and operate developer tools, internal platforms, development environments, project templates, and AI-enabled workflows for Hivemind engineering teams. Improve developer productivity through reusable tooling, paved paths, documentation, adoption efforts, and inner-source practices. Partner with developers to identify friction, measure outcomes using DORA metrics and feedback, and drive technical direction. Staff-level responsibilities include leading cross-team initiatives and shaping organization-wide developer productivity strategy.

Leads software architecture and development for internal research and development systems in a complex defense environment. Responsibilities include defining software baselines, analyzing capability gaps and maturity, developing and integrating software systems and subsystems, evolving engineering processes, coordinating vendors, and ensuring software standards. The role requires active Secret clearance, advanced software architecture experience, configuration management expertise, team leadership, and 10% travel.

Build core software systems for datacenter lifecycle management, including sites, designs, equipment, bills of materials, and construction progress. Partner with datacenter, energy, supply chain, and research teams to understand workflows, consolidate fragmented data, integrate industry tools, and ensure permissions, auditability, and data quality. Deliver user-focused products iteratively to accelerate compute infrastructure deployment.

Provides technical leadership and architectural guidance for a cloud synchronization platform. Designs scalable, highly available software, modernizes legacy services, improves reliability and performance, establishes engineering standards, mentors engineers, leads architecture and design reviews, and resolves complex distributed-systems challenges. Partners across Product and Engineering to drive technical strategy, continuous improvement, and cloud-first initiatives.

Lead software engineering for Riot’s Unreal Ecosystem, focusing on engine performance, developer tooling, build and test automation, infrastructure optimization, and player-facing performance. Develop high-quality C++ code, diagnose and optimize complex systems, improve cook and build times, lead long-term technical initiatives, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers. The role requires expertise with game engines, large codebases, profiling tools, internal developer tools, multi-platform game shipping, and performance optimization.

Build and own full-stack software for insitro’s laboratory platform, including React and TypeScript interfaces, Python services, database models, instrument and Benchling integrations, and agent runtimes. Partner with scientists, biology, automation, and machine learning teams to understand workflows and deliver useful, verifiable tools. Prototype agentic tooling, support production reliability, review code and designs, and contribute to accelerating drug development.

Own the networking architecture and roadmap for AKS Flex and Unbounded, enabling secure, reliable, high-performance Kubernetes connectivity across sites, clouds, edge environments, and on-premises infrastructure. Design overlay and underlay networks, routing, encrypted tunnels, eBPF dataplanes, and distributed systems for high-latency and partitioned environments. Integrate InfiniBand and RDMA for AI workloads, lead cross-team architecture efforts, improve global fleet performance and reliability, and participate in production operations and on-call rotations.

Design, build, and operate globally scalable backend services and APIs powering Outlook and Microsoft 365. Own features end to end, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement. Solve distributed-systems challenges involving reliability, performance, scalability, security, and fault tolerance. Collaborate across teams on API contracts and customer experiences while improving engineering productivity, modernizing services, and contributing to an inclusive engineering culture.

Lead the design, implementation, and operation of scalable Microsoft Fabric data engineering services, including Lakehouse, Notebooks, Spark, and monitoring. Provide technical leadership across distributed systems initiatives, drive architecture and end-to-end delivery, improve performance, reliability, observability, and security, and apply AI-powered workflows to enhance developer and data engineering experiences.

Owns the full lifecycle of critical banking applications and services, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, modernization, production support, and retirement. Designs secure, resilient solutions using C#/.NET, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, containers, and DevOps tooling. Leads technical analysis, code and design reviews, incident response, resiliency improvements, regulatory compliance, and cross-team coordination. Mentors engineers and evaluates AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security, quality, and operational standards.

Lead architecture and development of Beacon’s backend Datastore platform, including PostgreSQL data models, Kafka event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, clinical-data access controls, and warehouse snapshot pipelines. Design scalable systems, tune queries, operate production databases, debug cross-system issues, write RFCs, mentor engineers, and collaborate with scientific, clinical, product, and engineering stakeholders. The role offers breadth across platform systems or depth in PostgreSQL operations and data modeling.

Develop and lead full-stack software development for AI-powered defense and national security products. Responsibilities include architecting scalable backend systems, building React front-end components and Node.js services, designing APIs and databases, conducting code reviews, defining software development standards, collaborating with product and UX/UI teams, gathering customer feedback, training users, and implementing automated testing and CI/CD practices.

Develop and maintain enterprise applications using Python, Django, JavaScript, VueJS, AWS, Docker, and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, bug fixes, performance improvements, monitoring, troubleshooting, documentation, data security, container management, and participation in Agile development practices. The role supports mission-critical government systems and requires collaboration across the full software development lifecycle.

Develop location platform software, APIs, sensor-processing systems, geospatial capabilities, and data pipelines supporting machine learning workflows. Improve location accuracy through distributed systems, predictive modeling, and sensor fusion. Document algorithms and architectures while collaborating with engineering teams to enhance Uber’s location services.

Develop and deploy APIs and services that visualize, configure, and serve Uber’s geospatial data. Build data pipelines supporting machine learning workflows, improve geofencing solutions, and document algorithms and architectures. The role requires production software development experience and collaboration across geospatial and product teams, using technologies such as Go and Java in distributed systems environments.

Lead design, develop, test, and maintain mission-critical software for missile defense. Provide technical leadership, code/system reviews, troubleshooting, integration, deployment, and lifecycle sustainment across the full software development lifecycle.

Lead design and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency APIs and backend services. Define API standards (REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI), drive performance, observability, scalability, and resiliency. Coach engineers, participate in design reviews and incident response, and build frameworks to simplify API development for product teams.

Designs and builds a reliable, observable communications platform supporting SMS, email, and WhatsApp. Responsibilities include centralized contact data, notification APIs, vendor routing and failover, compliance controls, streaming telemetry, zero-downtime migrations, monitoring, resilience, testing, documentation, and engineering mentorship. Requires backend infrastructure and distributed systems expertise, messaging platform experience, event-driven architecture, cloud and Kubernetes proficiency, and strong software engineering practices.