Top Software Engineer Jobs in the Netherlands

Develop and maintain embedded software test methodologies, infrastructure, test plans, fixtures, and automated regression environments. Execute functional, integration, system, hardware-software integration, and release validation testing across firmware, FPGA code, and hardware. Investigate defects, reproduce hardware-software issues, document results, establish requirements traceability, and improve product testability through diagnostics and instrumentation. Collaborate with software and hardware teams while supporting CI/CD quality processes.

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.

Improve Firefox Gecko’s Session History health by writing Web Platform Tests and Gecko mochitests, fixing test failures and code issues, debugging a mature browser-engine codebase, and collaborating through code review and upstream landing.

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.

Architect and develop production-grade business systems across Salesforce, NetSuite, and integrated enterprise platforms. Build quoting, subscription, and entitlement engines; create automation pipelines and API integrations; establish architecture, security, documentation, and code-review standards; and translate commercial policies into scalable technical solutions. The role partners with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, and product stakeholders while maintaining system reliability, auditability, observability, and production readiness.

Develop software for Boskalis’s Survey department, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, and documentation. Build technical software for hydrographic surveyors, emphasizing data processing, visualization, mathematical modeling, reliability, and rapid delivery of survey data. Collaborate with an international team, support software users globally, and occasionally travel abroad. The role requires staying current with software development trends and communicating effectively in Dutch and English.

Design, build, test, and ship Firefox security and hardening features for enterprise users. Improve security architecture across operating systems, including privilege isolation, trust boundaries, cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive web APIs. Investigate security issues, deliver maintainable fixes, and resolve reliability, performance, memory, and correctness problems in complex multithreaded native applications.

Develop and test infrastructure software platforms for combat management, radar, and optical sensor systems. Work across requirements analysis, software development, integration, testing, validation, and demonstrations within an Agile Scrum and DevOps team. Use Python, networking technologies, Linux, CI tooling, infrastructure as code, and containerization. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, investigate modern technologies, and communicate technical information to stakeholders.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded software and drivers for contactless payment terminals. Translate business requirements into functional designs, configure development environments, evaluate tooling, and collaborate with hardware engineers on platform integration. Troubleshoot technical issues, review internal and subcontractor code, maintain quality standards, and contribute to continuous engineering improvement.

Design and implement large-scale browser-based rendering infrastructure to execute and extract structured content from JS-heavy web apps. Improve rendering quality, performance, cost, and throughput at internet scale and productionize rendering research.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable Bazel build systems, including rules, macros, toolchains, caching, remote execution, and hermetic builds. Develops automation with Go and Python, and manages integration, testing, and release workflows using GitHub Actions. Optimizes build performance, reliability, and dependency management while collaborating with engineering teams. Plans technical work packages, troubleshoots complex build systems, and delivers reliable software infrastructure on schedule.

Build and ship backend features for enterprise Coder deployments, including database migrations, observability, reporting, auditing, security, scalability, and reliability improvements. Investigate production issues, resolve operator problems, document designs, participate in code reviews and RFC discussions, and join on-call rotations. The role requires professional Go development, concurrency knowledge, SQL expertise, debugging ability, and strong communication.

Build and modernize TOPdesk’s customer-facing Knowledge Base across the full stack using agentic engineering workflows. Frame problems, orchestrate AI agents, define acceptance criteria, verify implementations, and maintain production quality through testing, observability, security, and rollback planning. Contribute reusable prompts, subagents, and evaluation libraries while coaching colleagues. The role involves Java and MS SQL modernization alongside TypeScript, Vue, Azure, and Kubernetes development.

Work on YDB distributed storage and database systems to maximize performance on modern and legacy hardware (NVMe, HDD, DPUs). Reengineer components for low-latency, high-throughput workloads, profile and debug production systems, and design resilient distributed storage primitives. Collaborate on incident resolution and production deployments to support Nebius cloud services.

Design, develop, and maintain Optiver’s global talent assessment tooling platform. Ensure scalability, reliability, usability, and code quality across the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with global recruitment teams, build server-side and frontend features, participate in code reviews, and support recruitment assessments, training, education, and test authorization.

Build and operate backend pricing systems for real energy contracts. Responsibilities include designing the Pricing API, consolidating pricing logic, improving quote speed, implementing error handling and observability, creating alerting, explaining pricing failures, and supporting live incidents. The role requires production Python backend experience, FastAPI, SQL, data-heavy systems, end-to-end project ownership, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Supports ESA software product assurance activities by defining requirements, reviewing contractor plans and compliance, monitoring software processes and documentation, participating in technical and review boards, conducting assessments and analyses, and maintaining databases for nonconformances, requests for waiver, and action items. The role requires software engineering expertise, space engineering knowledge, ECSS experience, and familiarity with software quality, security, safety, configuration management, and assurance practices.

Develop and maintain software that converts advanced GNSS algorithms into production services. Own features from design through deployment and operational support, improve CI/CD and release pipelines, build validation and monitoring tools, and collaborate with research, operations, partners, and customers. The role requires C/C++, Python, embedded systems, Linux, production deployment, DevOps, automated testing, and systems engineering expertise.

Develop and enhance MetaMask social and multi-chain experiences across Portfolio, browser extension, and mobile platforms. Collaborate across teams on complex projects, mentor engineers, and build scalable full-stack applications using React, React Native, modern JavaScript, blockchain technologies, APIs, testing, and continuous integration. Ensure cross-platform compatibility and apply web security best practices.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing and building Stream’s high-scale platform and infrastructure. The role includes setting SLOs, leading distributed-systems decisions, developing deployment and debugging tools, improving incident response, optimizing infrastructure costs, and guiding technical direction through design reviews and RFCs. The engineer will work with Go, Python, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, databases, observability systems, and real-time workloads in a small, autonomous team.

Build next-generation distributed data storage and processing systems for Databricks Runtime. The role focuses on scalable, high-performance systems supporting workloads from ETL to data science, using strong algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, databases, and big data technologies. The engineer will work toward a multi-year technical vision while delivering incremental customer value.

Build and operate large-scale distributed data systems and SaaS products. Responsibilities may include developing front-end, back-end, and reliability features; architecting scalable services; improving user experiences; deploying and operating cloud infrastructure; and contributing to products such as SQL Analytics, Jobs and Workflows, and the developer ecosystem.

Build and evolve Rerun’s open-source viewer, cross-language SDKs, and integrations with Rerun Hub. Develop high-performance interfaces for large-scale multimodal data, optimize workflows across desktop and web, make full-stack architecture decisions, and collaborate with backend, Hub, design, customers, and the open-source community. The role involves UI development, rendering, data handling, infrastructure, real-time applications, visualization, and performance optimization.

Develop and improve a Salesforce- and Python-based master data platform supporting product data integration, modeling, validation, enrichment, monitoring, and downstream operations. Responsibilities include designing and testing platform features, improving integrations and workflows, collaborating with operational users, reviewing code, resolving incidents, and participating in occasional on-call support. The role offers growth toward deeper Python development and data platform architecture.