Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Hampton, VA

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.

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.

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.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web and backend applications, public REST APIs, automated testing frameworks, and cloud-native services. Improve scalability, stability, monitoring, auto-scaling, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document root causes and operational procedures, and collaborate with distributed engineering teams to deliver fleet-management platforms.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

The Staff SDET will design and implement automated test frameworks using TypeScript, collaborate with developers, and enhance testing processes within CI/CD pipelines.

Design, build, and optimize GraphQL APIs, gRPC services and SQL queries for a promotions engine. Own complex technical problems, improve production scalability and performance, set up DataDog monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end features in an agile environment.

Build and operate AlphaSense's identity platform across user management, authentication, and authorization. Design scalable RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC systems, integrate authentication patterns (OAuth/OIDC/SAML), implement SCIM provisioning, and expose GraphQL/gRPC/REST APIs. Partner with security on SOC2/GDPR compliance, drive platform roadmap, champion testing, observability, and reliability, and operate autonomously from North America in close collaboration with the Helsinki team.

Own architecture, development, and reliability of ecommerce web applications (Symfony storefront and Laravel back-office). Lead front-end JavaScript/CSS direction, optimize SQL schemas/queries, improve observability and incident response, reduce legacy technical debt, establish AI-assisted development workflows, mentor engineers, and drive end-to-end delivery of scalable customer-facing features.

Build and ship full‑stack product features on a Python/Flask backend and React frontend. Design REST/GraphQL APIs, work with SQLAlchemy and relational data models, integrate LLM/AI features, use async task queues (Celery), and collaborate with product, design, and engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested features end-to-end.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based software solutions. Collaborate across the SDLC with stakeholders and development teams, integrate DevOps and CI/CD practices, support operational tasks, ensure security and performance, drive feature development, conduct code reviews, and stay current with emerging technologies.

Technical leader for Platform & Infrastructure building scalable, resilient cloud-native systems to support large AI workloads. Define architecture, mentor engineers, solve systemic infrastructure bottlenecks, design foundational platform services, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure secure, high-performance operations.

Lead architecture and scaling of cloud-native infrastructure to support large AI workloads. Mentor engineers, decompose complex systems, design foundational platform services, and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to ensure secure, performant, and highly available GPU/ML infrastructure.

Build and maintain end-to-end web applications powering sales and operations. Design tools for quoting, scheduling, and fulfillment, integrate AI into products, collaborate on UX, ship high-impact features, and contribute to architecture, deployment, and engineering culture.

Design, build, and maintain data platform tools, ensuring data quality and integrity. Collaborate with data science teams and enforce best software practices.

The Software Engineer will build features across the stack, design AI/LLM-driven workflows, translate requirements, and collaborate closely with the founding team and customers.

The Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer will design, build, and scale backend services and APIs for financial transactions while collaborating with frontend engineers and contributing to technical design.