Top Software Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Develop and operate IAM services powering Elastic Cloud and on-premises offerings. Responsibilities include backend software development, technical design, production debugging, incident response, customer issue resolution, security and reliability improvements, and on-call participation. The role involves distributed systems, containers, virtualization, microservices, cloud platforms, Kubernetes adoption, and collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for cloud data optimization products and Stratusphere’s data platform. Diagnose and improve database, query, storage, networking, and workload performance across AWS, Azure, relational, analytical, search, and lakehouse systems. Build production services, integrations, testing, observability, and infrastructure automation while safely overseeing AI-assisted development. Partner with product teams, forward-deployed engineers, and customers to validate optimizations, document tradeoffs, and convert repeatable solutions into scalable platform capabilities.

Build and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure enabling secure, reliable access to foundation models and AI agents. Responsibilities include developing model gateways, provider integrations, routing, usage controls, observability, governance, and self-service platform capabilities. The role involves architecting distributed systems, improving reliability and security, collaborating across engineering and product teams, mentoring engineers, and establishing high-quality engineering practices.

Lead engineering for Fetch’s audience products, building scalable lifecycle services, predictive and lookalike model workflows, identity matching, partner and DSP activation, monitoring, governance, and access controls. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, guide engineers, and partner with Data Science, Product, and Data Platform to move audience models from prototypes into reliable production systems.

Build and own backend services, web applications, REST APIs, webhooks, and enterprise integrations. Lead customer integrations from scoping through launch, improve the operator dashboard, and maintain production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product, success, and customer engineering teams while contributing to code reviews, technical design, mentoring, security, and AI-assisted development.

Build and ship full-stack features for AHEAD’s Hatch and Unity platforms, owning work from user needs through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support. Make architectural decisions, use AI development tools responsibly, lead code reviews, mentor engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, estimate work, manage technical risk, and help shape the engineering roadmap. The role uses Elixir and Phoenix while emphasizing adaptability, product thinking, software quality, security, and reliable delivery.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and developer trust. Provide clear, opinionated feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent interactions with tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires staff- or principal-level software engineering experience and familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web application features and distributed microservices. Own complex features from design through deployment, improve application performance and reliability, support on-call operations, troubleshoot incidents, enhance CI/CD and container infrastructure, and collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and API teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards while delivering customer-focused shipping and fulfillment experiences.

Define architectural direction for Azure Specialized platform services and lead the design of highly available distributed cloud systems. Drive reliability, scalability, observability, security, diagnostics, and operational improvements across engineering organizations. Establish service health frameworks, SLOs, metrics, and governance for mission-critical services. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, resolve complex cross-system challenges, and advance AI-assisted troubleshooting and platform modernization.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Build and operate Origin’s AI observability platform across data-collection agents, backend services, infrastructure, inference pipelines, APIs, and React interfaces. Design distributed systems using AWS, EKS, ClickHouse, and Kafka for high-throughput, multi-tenant production workloads. Develop internal coding agents and define AI-native engineering practices while making decisions around storage, APIs, performance, and reliability.

Develop, maintain, and execute automated test capabilities to verify mission-critical missile defense software. Collaborate with development, systems engineering, integration, cybersecurity, and test teams to ensure requirements verification, create test artifacts, and perform manual and automated testing using tools like DOORS and Python. On-site in Huntsville with occasional travel.

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient Azure VM Scale Set cloud services. Own features from architecture through deployment and operations, solve distributed-systems challenges at hyperscale, and drive reliability, security, performance, disaster recovery, testing, monitoring, automation, and engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform capabilities and customer outcomes.

Own the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of major Azure Boost DPU software components. Develop low-level systems software spanning operating systems, virtualization, networking, storage, device management, and hardware interfaces. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, optimize hyperscale performance and reliability, resolve system-level issues, establish engineering practices, influence platform architecture, and mentor engineers across Azure infrastructure teams.

Lead, coach, and mentor ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develop and customize ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoot platform and module issues, maintain integrations, support upgrades and performance optimization, document technical solutions, and perform deployments. The role requires advanced ServiceNow development expertise and SAM/HAM experience, along with ServiceNow certifications.

Own and improve billing APIs and full-stack Elastic Cloud console features. Lead projects from design through delivery, contribute to API architecture, improve observability and reliability, review code, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in on-call rotations. The role requires building scalable customer-facing systems across cloud infrastructure and supporting SaaS billing experiences in a distributed environment.

Own and improve global billing data pipelines and backend services using Python and PostgreSQL. Design reliable, scalable systems for usage ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, invoicing, and revenue records. Lead projects, optimize database performance, improve monitoring and incident response, participate in reviews and on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and help shape technical priorities. Collaborate with Product, SRE, and Cloud Infrastructure teams in a distributed environment.

Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, document, and deploy enterprise MuleSoft integrations, APIs, and connectors using Anypoint Platform and CloudHub. Optimize scalability, reliability, and performance; collaborate on integration testing and code reviews; integrate ERP, CRM, database, cloud, and third-party systems; and provide technical guidance to junior developers.

Design and evolve cloud-native services, distributed systems, and infrastructure platforms at scale. Lead architecture and technical direction across compute, networking, storage, AI infrastructure, HPC, GPU environments, and datacenter systems. Improve automation, observability, reliability, security, CI/CD, and developer productivity while collaborating across engineering organizations. Mentor engineers and contribute to architecture reviews and operational excellence for large-scale production platforms.

Design and scale backend services, data pipelines, event-driven systems, and integrations supporting autonomous manufacturing operations. Build LLM agents and RAG workflows for supplier document analysis, manage PostgreSQL data models, integrate ERP and freight APIs, implement caching and rate limiting, and establish observability and incident response practices. The role requires transactional processing expertise, NLP/ML pipeline experience, and manufacturing supply chain domain knowledge.

Develops and delivers resilient full-stack applications and services for Vantage’s reinsurance business. Responsibilities include application design, coding, debugging, testing, architecture discussions, risk management, roadmap estimation, stakeholder consultation, and coordination across project teams. The role promotes software engineering standards, DevSecOps, CI/CD, agile practices, innovation, and mentoring while building solutions with JavaScript, React, Node.js, Python, cloud, serverless, and modern infrastructure technologies.

Build and ship full-stack features used by learners and tutors worldwide. Responsibilities include understanding user problems, contributing product ideas, taking prototypes through deployment, making technical decisions, writing maintainable code, and participating in code reviews and pairing sessions. The role requires close collaboration with designers, stakeholders, and users while supporting a safe, scalable peer-learning platform.

Develops maritime route optimization, vessel performance modeling, voyage analysis, simulation, and evaluation software for government and defense customers. The role improves optimization algorithms, models fuel consumption and operational constraints, builds explainable route recommendations, and collaborates with engineers and maritime specialists. Work spans Rust, Python, APIs, testing, algorithms, and production software supporting U.S. Government maritime applications.

Develop and enhance full-stack digital products across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining applications, contributing to CI/CD and cloud-native practices, and collaborating through Agile ceremonies, paired programming, and knowledge sharing. Senior and Lead engineers additionally mentor teams, influence technical strategy, guide system design, and drive cross-product engineering direction.

Provides technical leadership for the 340BCheck healthcare data platform. Designs architecture across front-end, back-end, data, infrastructure, and CI/CD; resolves complex distributed-systems problems; drives refactoring, observability, and cross-team initiatives; mentors senior engineers; communicates technical tradeoffs; and influences long-term engineering direction without direct people management.