Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Rochester, NY

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure backend services in Python. Implement SQL and NoSQL data models, CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments. Collaborate with product, front-end, and design teams, perform code reviews, optimize performance, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and improve development processes and infrastructure.

Develop and maintain spacecraft flight software across the full lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, integration with HIL and flight hardware. Build tools and simulations, perform subsystem and platform-level tests, support anomaly resolution, systems modeling, and proposal efforts while collaborating with manufacturing and customers.

Design, build, test, and maintain React Native features for Hertz consumer mobile apps on iOS and Android. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, integrate APIs and third‑party services, optimize performance, resolve production issues, contribute to CI/CD and testing, and improve mobile UX and accessibility.

Senior backend engineer responsible for setting technical direction, designing scalable distributed systems, building customer-facing web applications, mentoring engineers, and applying machine learning to large-scale healthcare data. The role requires Java, Scala, or Rust expertise, cloud systems experience, technical design leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and adoption of agentic engineering practices.

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.

Lead the architecture and evolution of managed Kubernetes and cloud-native services. Provide cross-team technical oversight, standardize platform practices, integrate open-source technologies, improve scale, performance, security, and operational efficiency, and mentor engineering teams. The role requires expertise in Kubernetes-based platforms, container runtimes, cloud-native architectures, and Go, Python, or Bash.

Hands-on Site Reliability Engineer responsible for production support, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, SLI/SLO development, synthetic monitoring, automation, and toil reduction. The role partners with software engineering to resolve application, database, API, and infrastructure issues, implement permanent fixes, improve reliability practices, and support a rotating on-call schedule.

Designs and develops hyperscale Azure Storage backend technologies, improving reliability, scalability, observability, and engineering productivity. Leads technical strategy and high-impact initiatives across teams, architects engineering systems and pipelines, advances test automation, investigates networking and deployment issues, and improves development workflows. Responsibilities include coding, requirements analysis, design documentation, estimation, dependency identification, and on-call response for service degradation and outages.

Design, implement, and operate cloud-scale secure data access features for Azure Blob Storage. Lead end-to-end development, collaborate with stakeholders, improve availability, observability, performance, and apply AI-assisted engineering to enhance productivity and operations.

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.

Lead technical collaboration with a major external partner contributing to OpenCTI. Guide architecture, design refinement, coding standards, code reviews, and contribution quality while contributing directly to the codebase. Mentor internal and partner engineers, coordinate with product and engineering leadership on scope and roadmaps, and report risks and progress. The role requires strong TypeScript and full-stack experience with Node.js, React, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis, plus effective remote collaboration and technical influence.

Build and optimize Xbox growth experiments across services, clients, console, web, and mobile. Develop telemetry and analytics systems, analyze experimentation results, and drive retention and daily active users. Ship secure, reliable full-stack features, participate in on-call rotation, collaborate across teams, and use AI-enhanced workflows to accelerate engineering. Mentor engineers, shape product hypotheses, and own ideas from prototyping through rollout and scaling.

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.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and maintain the AI-powered learning platform across a TypeScript/React frontend and Python/FastAPI backend. Integrate LLMs for classification, extraction, personalization, and conversation practice. Design scalable APIs, develop real-time interactive features, apply AI-assisted development workflows, write well-tested code, and collaborate with product, design, and education teams to optimize learning experiences and A/B tests.

Develop on-vehicle and simulation software across the autonomy stack: planning behaviors, sensor and payload integration, embedded/vehicle platforms, realistic UxS simulation, and electronics prototyping. Ensure reliable, testable code and support onsite test/integration events (up to 25% travel).

Define and own autonomy architecture for large-scale UAV swarms: design perception, planning, control, and inter-robot/C2 protocols; make system tradeoffs; mentor engineers; write production-quality code; support test events (up to 25% travel).

Lead design and implementation of scalable backend services and member-facing APIs using Python/Django, PostgreSQL, BigQuery/dbt and GCP. Own infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), async/event-driven systems, observability, and performance tuning. Mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Data teams, and ensure secure, low-latency, AI-driven member experiences.

Design, develop, and maintain cloud-native applications using Node.js and React. Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CDK), deploy CI/CD pipelines, troubleshoot Linux systems, ensure secure AWS deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to operate cloud workloads.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop and deploy software for cyber defense, handle digital twin model construction, and perform site reliability operations.

Design, develop, test, and support full-stack healthcare applications across the application stack. Modify and maintain existing software, enforce development best practices, participate in QA and SDLC processes, and collaborate with product, architecture, and support teams to deliver reliable solutions.

Build and enhance full‑stack cloud-native applications using Java/Spring and JavaScript/React. Own the full SDLC, apply TDD and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction as experience increases from contributor to Lead.