Top Software Engineer Jobs in Madison, WI

Leads architecture, hands-on software development, deployment, and production issue resolution for strategic customer projects. Drives AI innovation, platform resiliency, security, observability, performance, and operational improvements. Partners with executives, engineering, product, and customer success teams to prioritize strategic programs, improve customer value, share technical best practices, and remove production blockers.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Develops high-quality software and AI-powered prototypes for national security missions. Responsibilities include architectural design, feature development, automated testing, backlog grooming, sprint execution, API and SDK development, integration debugging, and research involving LLMs, embeddings, and smaller trained models. The engineer independently leads focused efforts while collaborating with product and engineering teams, using modern DevSecOps and CI/CD practices.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of complex backend software systems. Owns significant features end to end, makes architectural decisions, improves scalability and performance, ensures code quality, mentors engineers, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. Builds production-ready C# and .NET APIs within microservices and containerized environments, using cloud databases and services. Participates in code reviews, testing, debugging, and continuous improvement.

Leads software design and development for Windows Core OS services and platforms. Partners with stakeholders to define requirements, identifies dependencies, creates design documents, and mentors engineers in producing maintainable code. Drives cross-product project and release planning, serves as a designated responsible individual, participates in on-call operations, and improves system availability, reliability, observability, efficiency, and performance.

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.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack web applications using TypeScript, Java, Node.js, HTML, CSS, and MS SQL in a microservices environment. Build AI-powered applications with LLMs, RAG pipelines, GenAI agents, vector databases, and AI services. Optimize performance, implement responsive user interfaces, troubleshoot systems, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with AI/ML engineers and cross-functional teams in a remote setting.

Build and maintain Mozilla’s Internal Developer Infrastructure Platform, including CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes optimization, environment bootstrapping, and cloud cost optimization. Support development teams, guide technical decisions, create agentic workflows, improve developer productivity, develop platform features, write technical proposals, and resolve urgent ambiguous tasks. The role requires technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, cloud-native expertise, and strong communication.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and supports secure external data integrations using .NET, Azure, Informatica, Snowflake, APIs, ETL, and file-based interfaces. Leads technical delivery, performs impact analysis, supports production systems, troubleshoots defects, collaborates with business and technology stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role owns integration architecture and solutions for insurance and financial-services partners, including DTCC and iPipeline feeds.

Own backend services from design through production support, solve ambiguous technical problems, improve reliability, build automation, and contribute to architecture and technical decisions. The role involves developing secure software in a regulated healthcare environment, debugging production issues, writing tests, mentoring engineers, and using modern cloud, deployment, observability, and AI-assisted development tools.

Leads technical direction for the Partner Services engineering area while remaining hands-on with mission-critical financial systems. Owns architecture roadmaps, ADRs, observability, reliability, security, technical investment, OKRs, and KPIs across multiple teams. Leads major incidents, drives AI-native engineering practices, partners with product and executive stakeholders, participates in architecture governance, and mentors engineers at every level. The role requires strong payments or banking familiarity, executive communication, and extensive technical leadership experience.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a multi-team billing engineering workstream supporting payments, banking, treasury, and financial settlement. Remains hands-on while owning architecture roadmaps, ADRs, reliability, observability, security, AI-native engineering practices, technical investment, and business outcomes. The role partners with senior engineering and product leaders, manages high-stakes incidents, strengthens engineering maturity, and mentors engineers at every level.

Develop coding tasks and reference solutions for evaluating AI systems. Build deterministic verifiers, test suites, scalable backend services, and APIs. Debug complex defects, assess code quality, refactor legacy implementations, optimize performance, and evaluate AI-generated technical reasoning. Document requirements and verification criteria while independently applying software engineering judgment across algorithms, system design, testing, and reliability.

Evaluates AI-generated software for correctness, quality, efficiency, security, and maintainability. Designs programming challenges, reference solutions, test cases, and evaluation criteria. Reviews technical reasoning related to debugging, architecture, and system design, then provides structured feedback and documentation. The role requires strong programming fundamentals, software testing and code review experience, analytical problem-solving ability, and clear technical communication.

Own the architecture and delivery of major backend services and long-term engineering initiatives. Design scalable, dependable transaction-heavy systems, write technical proposals, assess business impact, and collaborate with product teams. Use and validate AI coding tools, coach engineers, and contribute to the technical roadmap. The role requires expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, distributed systems, and message brokers, with remote work from the US or Canada.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, dependable platform features from concept through release. Creates technical design proposals, evaluates business impacts, uses and validates AI-assisted code, coaches engineers, contributes to technical roadmaps, and partners with product teams to align engineering work with business needs.

Design, develop, and improve scalable software for an investment platform. Lead software development across the lifecycle, mentor junior engineers, solve complex technical problems, maintain code quality through testing and reviews, and recommend technology enhancements. The role is remote in the USA with four in-person retreats annually.

Develop and maintain PowerUp Sports’ software platform, build and release new features, integrate technologies, optimize PHP applications on Azure, manage SQL Server databases, participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support scalable, reliable architecture.

Build and operate a stablecoin payment rail for merchant checkout, subscriptions, refunds, reconciliation, and onchain settlement. Deliver full-stack features across Go services and React/Next.js interfaces, including APIs, protobufs, database migrations, wallet connectivity, and durable Temporal workflows. Improve accessibility, conversion, performance, and observability through logs, metrics, and traces. Participate in on-call rotations and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate Payment Acceptance into Coinbase’s developer platform.

Leads the design, development, and delivery of complex software systems. Drives architectural decisions and technical strategy, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, partners with product stakeholders, and improves system performance, scalability, security, and compliance. Owns technical initiatives from design through delivery while maintaining high engineering standards.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.