Top Software Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Lead the design and development of globally scalable traffic management and networking systems. Drive architecture, technical roadmaps, secure-by-default infrastructure, network optimization, cloud orchestration, and operational excellence. Partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, customers, and internal teams while mentoring engineers and guiding high-impact distributed systems projects.

Designs and builds scalable, reliable infrastructure systems across compute, networking, cloud orchestration, storage, and observability. Drives technical strategy, architecture, roadmaps, cross-team alignment, cost optimization, and secure-by-default practices. Requires extensive experience with coding, concurrent and distributed systems, cloud platforms, system-level tradeoffs, and infrastructure engineering.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems supporting customer onboarding, account lifecycle management, billing, metering, marketplace integrations, revenue data synchronization, and customer-facing usage reporting. Build reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, and integrations while ensuring correctness, observability, compliance, and operational readiness. Partner with Finance, RevOps, Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and improve customer and developer experiences.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design, develop, test, verify, sustain, and document complex software applications including GUIs, visualization tools, and database-driven features. Translate use cases into requirements, perform code/risk/reliability analyses, lead verification/validation and testing, troubleshoot production deployments, and support integration and technical documentation for defense clients.

Lead end-to-end embedded software development for autonomous and semi-autonomous tactical drones. Design and implement production-ready C/C++ software for real-time embedded systems, Embedded Linux platforms, kernels, device drivers, hardware integration, networking, and communication buses. Support hardware bring-up, field deployments, troubleshooting, code reviews, performance optimization, and security improvements while collaborating with product and engineering teams.

Architect, develop, and maintain an Electron-based command-and-control application for engine test systems. Design data pipelines for high-rate storage and real-time communication, integrate driver-level PLC/industrial protocols, define software architecture and CI/CD practices, troubleshoot hardware-software issues, partner with controls/avionics engineers, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.

Architect and develop foundational edge-computing runtime and integration platforms for connected-home devices. Build software models for device, spatial, and occupancy data; prototype and productionize new concepts; evaluate architectures; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, coding standards, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role spans edge computing, IoT, distributed systems, embedded environments, intelligent agents, networking, and secure systems within an exploratory R&D organization.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

The role involves developing APIs, building internal tools, and collaborating with teams to enhance system performance while solving engineering challenges.

The Software Engineer (Fullstack) at Sumble will develop and optimize software applications, manage data integration, enhance security, and ensure a high-quality user experience.

Design and build scalable log ingestion pipelines, ensure system reliability, and optimize performance in a high-throughput environment.

The Software Engineer will develop AI agents for Sazabi, focusing on anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and improving workflow reliability. Responsibilities include prototyping, system design, and working with LLMs.

Develop the interface for an AI-native observability platform. Responsibilities include building features, debugging, and working on real-time streaming functionalities.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network and product requirements into computational models, improve solution quality, runtime, scalability, and explainability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability under increasing complexity and load. The role also involves managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, and maintaining production software.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities across commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Responsibilities include cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure-as-code, policy enforcement, staged rollouts, observability, incident response, and backup/recovery. The engineer will also create self-service infrastructure primitives for internal engineering teams and support reliable fleet-scale deployments.

Lead the technical vision, roadmap, and development of Elasticsearch’s ES|QL analytical engine and query capabilities. Design data-intensive systems, algorithms, APIs, and compute infrastructure; research search and analytics technologies; collaborate across product and engineering teams; mentor senior engineers; and contribute hands-on modern Java development. The role requires autonomous technical leadership, expertise in database internals and analytics systems, and the ability to guide complex projects from conception through delivery.

Develop, modify, test, and maintain Python and Java applications for Linux and Windows. Support HWIL and simulation integrations, perform debugging and automated/manual testing, assist rapid prototyping with senior engineers, and maintain documentation and deployment configurations.

As a Software Development Engineer, you will develop software solutions for spaceflight systems, focusing on full-stack development and collaboration with manufacturing teams.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Design and build a high-performance, AI-native web trading experience for sophisticated retail traders. Ship core trading workflows (order entry, positions, blotter, watchlists, alerts), implement trustworthy AI UI patterns, collaborate with backend engineers on low-latency contracts, and iterate quickly with users and stakeholders to deliver end-to-end product features.

As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll architect and evolve core backend systems and streaming data pipelines, optimize performance and storage, and define data models to enhance AI deployment safety and performance in real-time environments.

Lead full-stack development across Superset frontend and backend services. Design and ship end-to-end features, improve performance and scalability, own major technical initiatives, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with product, design, and the open-source community.