Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to design and develop large-scale distributed systems, mentor junior engineers, and manage complex projects in a dynamic setting.

Design, build, and maintain backend services in TypeScript for millions of users; develop full‑stack features with React/React Native; participate in code reviews; provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architecture guidance; collaborate with PM and design; use monitoring/metrics and Agile practices to deliver scalable, user-focused products.

Lead test architect for end-to-end integration testing of a complex genomics product portfolio. Design contract-first validations (OpenAPI/Avro), build resilient API and event-driven test frameworks, embed LLM-driven test generation and log analysis into CI/CD, mentor SQEs, enforce staging guardrails, and run chaos/resiliency experiments across distributed microservices.

Lead design and operation of a massively distributed edge compute platform using hyperscaler services and Kubernetes. Design external APIs, optimize L7 traffic routing, ensure high availability, fault tolerance, security and data privacy. Collaborate across AI/ML, hardware, network, and security teams, present scalability and reliability metrics to executives, mentor engineers, and establish architectural governance.

Lead Elasticsearch performance engineering from architecture through production. Develop performance models, optimize distributed systems, profile bottlenecks, build benchmarks, detect regressions, and improve scalability across stateful and serverless architectures. Design AI-assisted optimization and benchmarking tools, collaborate across teams, define performance strategies, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep Java, JVM, concurrency, distributed systems, and search or data-store performance expertise.

Develop and optimize Elasticsearch performance across distributed and serverless architectures. Responsibilities include implementing performance models, profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks, building benchmarks and regression detection, improving logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL performance, and creating AI-assisted optimization tools. The role also involves architectural and code-level optimization, technical analysis, peer reviews, and guidance for fellow engineers.

Lead strategic build-versus-buy engineering initiatives within Elastic’s IT organization. Design and deliver internal platforms using Elasticsearch, Kibana, Elastic ML, AI, and cloud technologies across developer productivity, FinOps, IT service management, and enterprise efficiency. Establish architecture and engineering standards, partner cross-functionally with IT, Security, Platform Engineering, Finance, and other teams, and validate Elastic products through internal production systems.

Develop and operate high-throughput, low-latency telemetry pipelines and cloud services for Azure AI/HPC infrastructure. Build observability, monitoring, analytics, and automation capabilities; own architecture through deployment and operations; and lead incident response, root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and operational readiness. Partner across engineering and platform teams, influence technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and apply distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations practices at hyperscale.

Designs and implements protocols and features for highly scalable distributed block storage, focusing on durability, availability, performance, reliability, and observability. Responsibilities include coding, optimization, debugging, design documentation, stakeholder collaboration, incident response, on-call operations, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in C or C++, distributed systems, cloud backend development, multithreaded programming, and large-scale software delivery.

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.

Design, implement, and operate core components of Azure Storage, focusing on metadata and data services for a hyperscale distributed file system. Build reliable, durable, and cost-efficient storage platforms using DPUs, optimize OS and networking (TCP/RDMA), participate in design, on-call DRI duties, and drive reliability and performance improvements.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and optimize storage datapaths for Azure Storage. Drive design, debugging, performance tuning, operations, and cross-team collaboration across research, compute, and storage to improve throughput, scale, reliability, and observability.

Design and operate large-scale, AI-native cloud infrastructure (especially Kubernetes/AKS). Improve service quality, automate incident prevention/remediation, accelerate engineering productivity, and integrate AI tools into development workflows.

Leads the design, implementation, optimization, and support of highly scalable Azure Storage services. Responsibilities include end-to-end performance testing, benchmarking, automation, profiling, bottleneck and root-cause analysis across compute, storage, and networking layers, KPI definition, scaling recommendations, and operational incident response. The role collaborates across teams, drives project and release plans, supports reliable and secure services, and mentors engineers while participating in on-call responsibilities.

Design and deliver large-scale, resilient AI and Kubernetes infrastructure for hybrid environments. Implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-native, container orchestration solutions; integrate AI capabilities; participate in on-call rotations; mentor engineers and drive reliability, observability, and performance at scale.

Design, implement, and operate low-level components of Azure Storage distributed file systems. Define requirements, produce designs, write and reuse high-quality code, break down work, estimate tasks, and act as an on-call DRI to monitor and restore services. Drive reliability, performance, observability, and scalability improvements.

Design, implement, debug, and ship features for Azure Storage front end at cloud scale. Drive design, dependency identification, automation, reliability, observability, and on-call incident response while collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring engineers.

Design and deliver large-scale, cloud-native and AI-enabled Kubernetes/AKS solutions. Implement, optimize, and maintain Kubernetes components and container orchestration across Azure, on-prem, and edge. Integrate AI capabilities, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve reliability, observability, performance, and operational consistency at scale.

Leads the technical strategy, architecture, implementation, and delivery of a scalable ecommerce platform for vehicle discovery, configuration, checkout, payments, order management, fulfillment, and ownership experiences. Builds and tests distributed systems, drives code quality and technical decisions, partners with product and UX teams, simplifies complex problems, and mentors engineers while balancing customer impact, business needs, and long-term technology excellence.

Build and maintain full-stack features across C# .NET backend services and web frontends. Integrate Azure OpenAI and AI services, maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, optimize Azure SQL data access, improve observability, participate in on-call and incident response, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires ownership of reliability, delivery, technical decisions, and production AI capabilities including agentic workflows, document processing, tool calling, and RAG.

Develop custom ServiceNow applications for work order management, scheduling, and dispatch. Collaborate with stakeholders and technical SMEs, enhance event rules and CMDB binding, build REST integrations and user interfaces, and configure Discovery, Service Mapping, MID Servers, Service Graph Connectors, and multisource CMDB. The role also involves creating discovery patterns, preventing duplicate CIs, configuring identification rules, migrating patterns across environments, and supporting multi-tier service discovery.

Conducts manual and automated software testing across requirements, user workflows, edge cases, regressions, APIs, and data validation. Creates test cases, investigates and documents defects using SQL, logs, browser tools, and source code, and contributes Playwright automation within CI/CD pipelines. Collaborates with engineers and product teams, supports accessibility and security-conscious testing, follows HIPAA data-handling practices, and uses Claude Code responsibly to improve test design and investigation.

Lead design and implementation of backend services for payments, billing, ledgers, settlements, and reconciliation. Drive architecture, integrate with external payment and banking partners, ensure financial accuracy, security, compliance, scalability, and operate mission-critical production services.

Develop and independently execute backend features, build APIs, design data models, maintain infrastructure, and resolve customer issues. Write tested, scalable, reliable code and develop validation procedures. Support internal capabilities and ML systems while designing elegant solutions with strong observability, SLA, and scalability considerations. Collaborate with application and front-end engineers and own large backend-focused projects.

Build, maintain, and scale cloud-first microservices using TypeScript/Node.js. Contribute to front-end features with Angular, optimize SQL and NoSQL queries, use CI/CD pipelines, adopt AI-assisted tools, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with senior engineers to deliver reliable software.