Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Hampton, VA

Design and implement scalable frontend solutions using JavaScript/TypeScript and React. Drive architecture discussions, ship features with minimal guidance, maintain code quality and styling standards, collaborate across agile teams, ensure performance and scalability, and manage end-to-end feature lifecycles in a fast-moving environment.

The Senior Backend Engineer will design and build backend systems for a multi-cloud platform, ensuring performance, scalability, and high quality while collaborating with various teams and stakeholders.

Perform systems and software engineering tasks including analysis, design, development, testing, integration, debugging, and documentation. Support API-driven, low-code/no-code BPMN-based automation platforms (Appian, Salesforce, Nintex) with SQL Server and .NET, collaborate with Agile teams, and maintain secure remote work practices for CUI-bearing government projects.

Design and implement AI-powered educational software, focusing on generative AI systems, mentor peers, and ensure scalable, secure architecture.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Scribe, you will design and optimize AWS cloud infrastructure, manage CI/CD pipelines, and support product development while ensuring reliability and performance of services.

Develop and maintain language frontends for the Joern platform for automated software vulnerability analysis, collaborating with a global team.

Lead architecture and development of high-performance, scalable backend systems for Yahoo Mail using Java and C++. Set technical strategy, establish architectural standards, validate AI-generated code, mentor senior engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure reliability through automated logging, telemetry, and debugging workflows.

Design and own AI-agent-driven test workflows and the automated verification framework. Build test context, select models and tooling, validate AI-generated code and tests, operate test automation across UI/API/mobile/data, ensure security and compliance, mentor teams, and continuously improve agent orchestration and observability.

Extend and harden Ocient's native geospatial engine: implement and optimize 120+ spatial functions, ensure spherical/geodetic numerical correctness, improve spatial indexing and query performance at trillion-row scale, deepen spatiotemporal operators (trajectory/interpolation), integrate geospatial features with the analytical engine, and produce design docs, tests, and benchmarks.

Lead technical design and delivery of complex, scalable SaaS features using AI-assisted development. Own specification quality, implement and review AI-generated code, design REST APIs, mentor engineers, and drive cohort-wide standards for architecture, testing, and DevOps practices.

Design and deliver complex, scalable SaaS features end-to-end using AI-assisted development tools. Own specifications, implement and review AI-generated and human code, build REST APIs, maintain UI and backend services, drive AI-assisted workflows, and mentor cohort engineers on tooling, spec writing, and best practices.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend services and APIs in Go. Architect scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems using Kafka for large-scale data processing and streaming. Collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams; monitor and profile systems for performance and reliability; drive engineering best practices; and mentor junior engineers.

Develop, test, and maintain production-quality C++ software implementing Government Reference Architectures for mission-critical defense systems. Translate MBSE (SysML/Cameo) artifacts into interoperable components, implement APIs/ICDs, integrate distributed messaging frameworks (ActiveMQ/DDS/ZeroMQ), and maintain CI/CD, automated testing, containerized builds, and static analysis. Collaborate with systems engineers, architects, autonomy engineers, and government stakeholders to validate interoperability and performance.

Develop and integrate open-architecture, standards-based software for defense and aerospace systems. Implement and map interoperability standards (SOSA, FACE, AMS GRA, UCI), work with serialization formats (OMG IDL, protobuf, XSD, XMI), perform structural and semantic gap analysis, support interface/data model transformations, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, produce documentation and interface specifications, and participate in architecture and design reviews.

Develop systems software to parse, reverse-engineer, and deterministically generate complex engineering data. Build tooling for schema translation, compiler/transpiler solutions, reproducible CI/CD pipelines, and automated document generation. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, support verification/validation, and apply MBSE concepts for engineering integration.

Lead cross-product engineering work: design APIs and data models, turn ambiguous customer problems into technical plans, implement and roll out features across web, APIs, CLI, integrations, and infra, debug production issues, and raise engineering quality through docs, reviews, and mentorship.

Design and implement system-level debugging, validation, and observability platforms. Build automated anomaly collection/analysis, visualization and root-cause tools, failure classification and monitoring frameworks. Extend compilers, runtimes and programming interfaces for profiling and instrumentation, improve bring-up and low-level debug workflows, lead cross-functional initiatives, support incident response, and establish debuggability and reliability best practices.

Lead backend architecture and implementation for scalable, reliable cloud-hosted web products. Mentor engineers, set standards, integrate agentic AI coding tools, design systems applying ML to large datasets, and balance customer-facing features with technical debt and performance.

Build data-rich, operational UIs for managing individual assets and fleets of autonomous and unmanned systems in distributed, bandwidth-constrained environments. Integrate frontends with backend APIs and platform services, handle complex asynchronous state, apply secure cloud-native deployment practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver mission-focused software.

Design, build, and maintain scalable control-plane features for Cribl Stream to deploy, configure, and orchestrate distributed nodes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement production APIs, automated tests, and reliability improvements. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and SaaS operations while using AI-assisted tools to improve development and operational efficiency.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend and frontend systems (approx. 60% backend/40% frontend), including data pipelines, Kafka streams, REST APIs, and cloud-native deployments on AWS/Kubernetes. Participates in design/code reviews, on-call rotation, troubleshooting, performance optimization, testing, mentoring, and architectural discussions while championing API-first approaches and improving monitoring and tooling.

You will develop and maintain components of the LLVM based toolchain, collaborating with the community while ensuring platform-specific optimizations and tests.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop orchestration and autoscaling for the Lucenia search platform, working with cloud technologies and Kubernetes to manage services and mentor team members.

The Senior Software Engineer will focus on Lucene's distributed indexing and query capabilities, improve code features, and collaborate with a global team.

The Lead Quality Engineer will set quality standards, mentor a QA team, improve testing strategies, and enhance automation in AI-driven workflows.