Top Remote C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead DoD systems development programs using MBSE, SysML, Cameo, and digital engineering practices. Architect systems, guide teams through the systems engineering lifecycle, establish requirements traceability, customize and automate modeling tools, mentor engineers, and collaborate with software and domain experts. The role supports software-intensive, open-architecture systems across defense mission areas and requires an active Secret clearance with eligibility for Top Secret.

Drives performance engineering and scalability across software systems by identifying bottlenecks, optimizing code, queries, databases, and architecture, and implementing fixes. Builds performance frameworks, data-generation tools, benchmarks, and CI/CD automation using k6, JavaScript, Grafana, and InfluxDB. Establishes performance standards, investigates distributed systems and cloud environments, documents architectural decisions, and collaborates with engineering teams to improve throughput, latency, reliability, and efficiency.

Provides sustaining process engineering support for semiconductor solar cell wafer and assembly production. Maintains process control using SPC, troubleshoots equipment and manufacturing anomalies, and drives continuous improvement to reduce cycle time and cost while improving performance. Supports solar technology R&D, process and product development, safety initiatives, and innovative solutions. Requires semiconductor processing experience and collaboration with manufacturing operations teams.

Leads and grows a distributed software engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining NinjaOne SaaS products. Provides technical direction, participates in architecture, code reviews, integrations, and deployments, and partners with product, platform, and project management teams. Oversees engineering operations, team mentoring, software quality, continuous improvement, and successful product delivery across UI, mobile, server, and agent systems.

A 12-week unpaid fellowship providing hands-on training in Palantir Foundry and AIP. Participants attend live virtual instruction, complete technical projects, engage with Palantir engineers and leadership, and earn a professional certification. The program seeks builders with technical experience in software, data, automation, process improvement, prototyping, or related fields. Exceptional performers may interview for roles at Palantir or partner companies.

Design and implement C++ features for MongoDB’s replication infrastructure, improving availability, recovery, consistency, performance, and fault tolerance. Diagnose distributed-systems issues, develop comprehensive tests, collaborate across engineering teams, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers. The role involves owning technical work from investigation through delivery and contributing to major MongoDB releases.

Develop and maintain MongoDB server workload resilience infrastructure in C++ or Rust. Design workload policies for rate limiting, prioritization, overload mitigation, availability, and performance. Write unit and integration tests, investigate failures, improve observability, diagnose and fix complex distributed-system issues, and lead technical projects. Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor junior engineers, participate in hiring, and improve operational readiness, monitoring, incident management, and rollout processes.

Deploy production software alongside military operators in restricted and air-gapped environments. Integrate core and simulation platforms with partner C2 systems and databases, write scripts, transform schemas, debug distributed systems, analyze logs, isolate failures, and convert recurring field workarounds into reusable product capabilities. Brief engineers and senior military stakeholders while translating mission needs into technical solutions.

Leads architecture and development of scalable, high-availability software systems supporting millions of endpoints. Owns complex multi-team initiatives, makes technical decisions, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and improves software quality. Requires deep Java development, distributed systems, API design, database engineering, system scalability, testing, and AI-assisted development experience.

Research and analyze vehicle network signals, OEM telematics data, wiring diagrams, and field logs to expand vehicle telemetry coverage. Capture and interpret vehicle network data using live debugging, log analysis, scraping, reverse engineering, and custom scripts. Validate solutions on vehicles and at customer locations, document findings, and collaborate with global engineering and product teams to support new telematics capabilities.

Build low-latency, high-reliability trading, risk, and analytics systems for fintech applications. Translate quantitative models into production software, collaborate with quants and traders, implement market data and FIX systems, and optimize performance through concurrency, profiling, debugging, and high-performance computing. The role also includes code and design reviews, stakeholder collaboration, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across the full robotics stack. Responsibilities include sensor integration, perception, localization, motion planning, control, behavioral systems, sensor fusion, real-time debugging, simulation, field testing, and hardware integration. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, code and design reviews, production delivery, technical documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Lead backend platform development for high-throughput distributed systems and shared services. Design and operate request routing, traffic management, caching, asynchronous processing, messaging, and event-driven architectures. Lead multi-quarter initiatives across engineering teams, make technical decisions, document trade-offs, mentor engineers, and improve developer experience. Preferred experience includes Kubernetes platforms, service meshes, workflow orchestration, backward-compatible APIs, open-source infrastructure, and technical community contributions.

Verify safety-critical flight software for automated aircraft, including developing DO-178C-compliant verification strategies, test tooling, requirements-based unit and hardware-in-the-loop testing, flight-test planning, and DO-330 tool qualification. The role collaborates across embedded, avionics, control, hardware, and aircraft teams while supporting software certification and testing both in laboratory environments and on aircraft.

Own the reliability, performance, architecture, and lifecycle of heterogeneous database platforms. Design and operate relational, NoSQL, caching, time-series, and warehouse systems; improve provisioning, developer tooling, CI/CD, backups, disaster recovery, security, and performance. Influence architecture and product decisions, lead migrations and upgrades, troubleshoot developer and production environments, and establish platform standards, documentation, and regulatory traceability.

Develop and improve gameplay systems in C++, including character controls, abilities, enemy behaviors, interactive objects, platform features, trophies, and visual effects. Investigate and fix bugs while collaborating with experienced gameplay programmers. The internship provides mentorship and hands-on experience with game development workflows and technical problem-solving.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into scalable designs, writing and reviewing code, leading sprint teams, removing delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and guiding technical strategy. The role emphasizes microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, APIs, messaging, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Own and evolve cybersecurity platform integrations, parser frameworks, data normalization, and microservice-based solutions. Design secure APIs, process security logs from diverse sources, and ensure ingested data supports detection and analytics. Drive architecture decisions, improve framework reliability, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to accelerate development, testing, parsing, automation, and operational workflows.

The Frontend Software Engineer will develop and maintain critical applications using TypeScript and React. The role involves engagement in product discovery, coding, and deployment of applications to enhance manufacturing processes.

Leads a multidisciplinary engineering team delivering production-ready customer solutions through a Forward Deployed Engineering model. Responsibilities include portfolio and delivery leadership, coaching software engineers, technical program managers, and data scientists, serving as a player-coach, improving engineering practices, and applying responsible AI and LLM capabilities to customer engagements. The role includes customer collaboration, end-to-end solution delivery, and up to 25% travel.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and operates large-scale distributed cloud services for Azure Arc. Builds software across agents, Kubernetes environments, and globally distributed Azure services using languages such as C# and Go. Responsibilities include automation, debugging, performance optimization, reliability improvements, telemetry, live-site operations, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires participation across the full software development lifecycle and ownership of features from design through production support.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes microservices, service meshes, and CI/CD pipelines. Automates infrastructure and application delivery using Infrastructure-as-Code, scripting, and configuration management tools. Supports cloud migrations, AWS architecture guidance, security, cost optimization, project governance, and developer enablement. Collaborates with delivery teams using Agile practices to provide reliable, scalable, and cost-effective customer solutions.

Develop and maintain automated integration and deployment for components in a Kubernetes-based software stack. Manage third-party dependencies, validate compatibility, maintain integration workflows, troubleshoot cross-component issues, and ensure compatibility with NVIDIA hardware. The role requires extensive Linux software development experience, Python proficiency, Kubernetes and container expertise, and collaboration with QA, CI/CD, development teams, and upstream projects.

Design and deploy AI networking platforms in customer data centers. Partner with customers on GPU, compute, storage, and fabric architecture; support infrastructure bring-up; troubleshoot InfiniBand, RoCE, Linux, NIC, and switching issues; conduct technical reviews; build proof-of-concepts; and translate customer requirements into product and engineering feedback. Collaborate with systems engineering, product management, and sales while supporting large-scale AI cluster deployments.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.