Top Software Engineer Jobs in Germany

Lead verification and validation, requirements traceability, test planning, certification documentation, and software functional baselining for spacecraft flight software. Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, subsystem owners, certification bodies, and safety authorities. Apply aerospace software standards, support NASA Safety Reviews, plan integrated mission testing, and resolve technical issues using expertise in C/C++, Python, embedded systems, and real-time software.

Provides quality oversight and subject matter expertise for GxP computerized systems across regulated R&D areas. Advises on risk-based software validation, Computer Software Assurance, data integrity, validation planning, testing, documentation, audits, inspections, CAPA, compliance strategies, and process improvements. The role also trains and coaches stakeholders, reviews validation deliverables, supports inspection readiness, and guides business system owners and project teams.

Provides quality oversight and subject matter expertise for GxP computerized systems across regulated R&D areas. Advises teams on risk-based software validation, Computer Software Assurance, data integrity, testing, traceability, documentation, CAPA, inspection readiness, and audit responses. Reviews validation deliverables, trains business partners, supports quality governance, and drives compliance and process improvement.

Owns end-to-end test strategy, designs scalable backend and UI automation frameworks, integrates automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, performs exploratory testing, and advocates for testability and reliability across engineering and product. The role requires strong programming, Kubernetes and distributed-systems knowledge, debugging ability, and cross-functional ownership in a fast-moving startup.

Join AutoScout24 as a Software Engineer to enhance their technology stack, optimize systems, and integrate GenAI tools into applications, driving efficiency and quality.

Define and own end-to-end firmware architecture for DAQ platforms, leading hardware bring-up, low-level driver and BSP design, boot and update strategies, FPGA and SoC integration, and mentoring firmware teams. Provide feasibility, risk analysis, prototyping, and hands-on debugging to ensure performant, reliable, and maintainable firmware across product lifecycles.

Own technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; lead architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve engineering quality; drive critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across teams. The role is fully remote and requires strong English communication in a distributed international environment.

Design and develop the core vCluster Platform, focusing on Kubernetes internals, tenant isolation, container orchestration, and scalable resource-sharing systems. Build high-performance Go software, own features from technical design through release, solve complex systems-architecture problems, and contribute to open-source projects. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, active collaboration with the Kubernetes community, and experience in high-growth startup environments.

Design and build the vCluster Platform using Kubernetes internals and Go. Own features end to end from technical design through release, solve complex systems architecture problems, contribute to open-source projects, and develop scalable tenant isolation and resource-sharing solutions. The role requires autonomous technical problem solving, strong Kubernetes expertise, and participation in a high-growth startup environment.

Develop and maintain scalable engineering processes for Camunda 8, improving CI/CD, release health, dependency management, build efficiency, and developer experience. Lead AI-assisted engineering automation, including release management, dependency updates, and CVE remediation. Partner with infrastructure, software engineering, and leadership teams to identify workflow friction, implement engineering best practices, and optimize development velocity through metrics-driven improvements.

Develop and maintain C++ embedded software for Linux-based rail communication devices, including the TRACS distributed audio system. Translate customer requirements into reusable product features, troubleshoot and resolve software issues, own technical components, estimate development efforts, document solutions, and improve product quality. Collaborate with international project, product, bid management, and engineering teams on configuration, integration, and technical clarifications.

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 production data and machine learning systems for algorithmic pricing. Responsibilities include designing scalable pipelines, enabling model training and deployment, productionizing models, monitoring performance, managing Databricks and Kubernetes workloads, creating dashboards and alerts, and translating business requirements into reliable software. The role also emphasizes testing, code review, CI/CD, observability, system reliability, and collaboration with scientists, product managers, engineers, and commercial stakeholders.

Build and scale backend services for GetYourGuide’s User Platform, including traveler identity, context, and predictive data systems. Design reliable solutions, run A/B experiments, maintain code quality, contribute to architecture and roadmap strategy, mentor engineers, and participate in hiring. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and analysts while using Java, Spring Boot, databases, GraphQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes.

Develop embedded software for autonomous UAV systems, including PX4 autopilot features, drivers, navigation and control systems, hardware integrations, simulation, and testing. Collaborate on robotic systems, support OEM and customer integrations onsite, and maintain reliable software across RT and Linux platforms.

Build and operate scalable, event-driven trading-platform backend services using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot. Responsibilities include modeling trading workflows, integrating with trading venues, designing APIs, ensuring performance and reliability, managing persistence, and contributing across architecture, testing, deployment, monitoring, security, and auditability. The role requires production ownership in an agile, cloud-native environment.

Build and operate scalable, reliable trading-platform backend services using Kotlin, Java, and Spring Boot. Design event-driven systems supporting the full trading lifecycle, integrate with internal platforms and external venues, and ensure performance, availability, security, and auditability. Collaborate with product, operations, risk, and engineering teams while owning architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement in a cloud-native environment.

Build and maintain high-performance differentiable simulation software for open and closed quantum systems using Julia and Python. Develop model-learning, parameter-inference, neural-network PDE-solving, and optimisation methods. Benchmark research methods, improve performance and reliability, collaborate with university faculty, publish results, supervise students and interns, and contribute to teaching materials.

Design, implement, test, and ship Firefox security and hardening features for enterprise users. Improve browser security architecture across operating systems, including privilege isolation, trust boundaries, cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive APIs. Investigate security issues, resolve root causes, and improve reliability, performance, memory usage, and correctness in a complex multithreaded codebase.

Build and own production-grade applied AI and agentic systems, including workflow services, APIs, retrieval, tool integrations, evaluation harnesses, observability, and operational tooling. Design distributed systems, data pipelines, and event-driven services; develop Python software; benchmark reliability and performance; debug AI, infrastructure, and GPU environments; and collaborate across global engineering teams to turn prototypes into reusable, deployed production capabilities.

Build and operate production data pipelines, Python services, APIs, database systems, monitoring, tests, and data quality checks. Work across batch and near-real-time workloads while improving the performance, reliability, and cost efficiency of a large data warehouse. Own ambiguous engineering problems from concept through production, using Python, SQL, and databases such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB.

Build and maintain Ergodic AI’s AI platform across back-end and front-end systems. The role involves developing with Python web frameworks and JavaScript/TypeScript, integrating with client technology stacks and workflows, applying AI, ML, and LLM concepts, and contributing to DevOps, cloud deployment, testing, and infrastructure practices. As an early-stage hire, the engineer will help shape the product and solve complex data and AI challenges.

Develop production-grade Rust and Go control-plane microservices, Kubernetes operators, reconciliation engines, and APIs for AI infrastructure. Design distributed systems, integrate datacenter networking and DPU platforms, implement observability with OpenTelemetry, and perform root-cause analysis. The role requires strong async concurrency, reliability, testing, architecture documentation, and cross-functional design skills, with opportunities to work on open-source cloud-native bare-metal orchestration systems.

Develop and operate scalable Java microservices using Spring Boot, REST APIs, event-driven systems, PostgreSQL, AWS, and Kubernetes. Own features through design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and production support. Contribute to distributed-system architecture, technical strategy, code reviews, and CI/CD automation. Collaborate with product and frontend teams, mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and identify continuous improvements while delivering reliable partner-facing products.