Top Software Engineer Jobs in Portland, OR

Build and evolve distributed platforms, microservices, intelligent agents, and AI-enabled services. Lead hands-on software development while defining agent orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, controls-as-code, CI/CD, security, and compliance practices. Partner with systems engineers and security stakeholders, translate mission needs into scalable solutions, establish development standards, mentor engineers, and guide architecture and technical decisions in secure, regulated environments.

Principal Engineer serving as the CTO’s technical deputy, leading day-to-day engineering execution, architecture, code reviews, developer support, and delivery. The role requires hands-on full-stack development across databases, backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps. It also champions AI-agent-assisted development by establishing workflows, guardrails, and quality standards. The engineer will mentor teammates, resolve technical blockers, improve reliability and documentation, and collaborate with technical, product, and research stakeholders.

Leads Nooks’ software engineering organization, technical vision, AI strategy, government contract delivery, internal platform, architecture, and technology investment. Builds and scales the engineering team, establishes outcome-based operating practices, oversees delivery economics and customer relationships, drives AI adoption and governance, and supports federal software pursuits. Partners with executive leadership, Growth, Operations, IT/Cyber, Product, and Finance while representing engineering to government customers.

Build and operate reliable backend systems for complex government and enterprise data integrations. Responsibilities include designing bidirectional integrations, asynchronous workflows, retries, idempotency, observability, operational automation, debugging production systems, and creating reusable reliability patterns. The role involves TypeScript and Node.js development, database work, partner collaboration, mentoring, and improving support efficiency in a fully remote environment.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, integrations, and AI-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, validation, and quality gates. Contribute to scalable systems design, roadmap planning, and developer tooling while collaborating with distributed teams. The role focuses on improving reliability and reducing manual intervention across Chainguard’s software image factory.

Owns Salesforce enterprise architecture, platform strategy, integrations, governance, data architecture, DevOps, and nonprofit technology modernization. Designs and develops solutions across NPSP, Nonprofit Cloud, Experience Cloud, Data Cloud, Agentforce, and Einstein AI. Leads architecture reviews, code quality, migrations, release management, security, platform optimization, contractor oversight, and production issue resolution. Serves as KIPP’s senior technical authority and principal Salesforce developer, translating business needs into scalable, sustainable solutions.

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.

Develops and tests scalable Java web applications and reusable components throughout the agile lifecycle. Responsibilities include SOAP and REST web services, unit and acceptance testing, code reviews, troubleshooting, load testing, performance tuning, continuous improvement, and sprint communication. The role requires collaboration across development and testing teams, cloud application experience, AWS, CI/CD, J2EE frameworks, and eligibility for a Public Trust clearance.

Own and maintain the WordPress platform end-to-end: hosting, security, performance, technical SEO, tracking (GA4/GTM), integrations (HubSpot/APIs), backups, and documentation. Establish environments, deployment workflows, monitoring, and runbooks while partnering with front-end and marketing teams to ensure reliable, high-performing, and compliant site operations.

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.