Top Remote C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

Develop performant, standards-compliant Firefox layout and Asynchronous Pan and Zoom features across multiple platforms. Responsibilities include writing and optimizing multithreaded C, C++, or Rust code; debugging rendering and interaction issues; developing layout, graphics, algorithms, and tools; reviewing code; testing and triaging bugs; and contributing to long-term open-source projects.

Develop and maintain high-performance, standards-compliant Firefox layout and rendering functionality, with a focus on Asynchronous Pan and Zoom. Responsibilities include implementing algorithms and user interaction techniques, debugging and optimizing multithreaded code, reviewing code, testing and triaging bugs, and collaborating on long-term platform development across Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Lead the architecture, reliability, and delivery practices for StoneAge’s cloud platforms, distributed systems, full-stack applications, data pipelines, and connected equipment ecosystem. Manage and develop software engineers, establish engineering standards, guide cloud and data architecture, improve CI/CD and observability, lead production incident resolution, and ensure scalable, secure, predictable software delivery across field, edge, and cloud environments.

Develop, optimize, and maintain Unreal Engine 5 rendering systems, shaders, lighting workflows, and visual tools for a high-profile horror game. Profile GPU and CPU performance, resolve rendering and platform-specific issues, support artists through internal tooling, and establish visual fidelity and performance standards. Collaborate with engineering, technical art, lighting, and environment teams while evaluating new UE5 rendering technologies.

Design, develop, optimize, and maintain core game engine systems using modern C++. Collaborate with external programmers, evaluate technologies, improve runtime performance, and resolve crashes and bottlenecks across PC and console platforms. The role requires commercial game development experience, strong computer science fundamentals, multithreading expertise, and GPU/CPU profiling knowledge. This is an engine programming position rather than gameplay engineering.

Lead delivery of Unity Engine’s C#/.NET integration, including GC, JIT, AOT, runtime libraries, and compiler toolchains. Define technical vision, improve performance and reliability, guide cross-functional development, communicate roadmaps and metrics, support users, and mentor team members. The role requires deep C# and C++ expertise, compiler knowledge, hardware architecture understanding, and proprietary game engine development experience.

Own technical direction and complex projects for Tempo, Grafana’s distributed tracing backend. Build and optimize ingestion, storage, query, metrics, and API components; improve performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, write design documentation, participate in on-call and incident response, mentor engineers, and contribute to the open-source Tempo project.

Build and lead high-performance browser features in modern C++ and Chromium, including tracker blocking, subscription integrations, and responsiveness monitoring. Own complex projects from proposal through post-mortem, solve ambiguous technical problems, make architecture decisions, collaborate asynchronously with product and design, and use metrics to evaluate outcomes in a large-scale consumer codebase.

Designs, develops, deploys, and sustains Azure infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads. Responsibilities include coding, hardware and software integration, distributed systems, networking, GPU and cluster design, performance optimization, debugging, automation, test-driven engineering, documentation, partner collaboration, and on-call incident response. The role drives scalable, reliable infrastructure and mentors engineers while improving quality, maintainability, and customer outcomes.

Join Azure PostgreSQL to design, implement, and test features in a relational database engine (query processing, logging, storage, IO, scale-out). Collaborate with stakeholders, write maintainable code, define test plans, operate live services (on-call), and contribute to open-source PostgreSQL and Linux.

Develop and deploy onboard swarm autonomy: perception, planning, control, multi-target tracking, inter-robot/C2 protocols, on-vehicle software integration, realistic UxS simulation, train and test ML-based target recognition, and electronics prototyping. Travel for test events up to 25%.

Develop and implement digital pre-distortion algorithms and production software for radio hardware. Model nonlinear power amplifier behavior, select DPD engines, collaborate with hardware design teams on DFE, AFE, and feedback paths, troubleshoot radio performance, and test hardware robustness. The role requires advanced DSP, nonlinear system modeling, RF expertise, FPGA or ASIC experience, programming in Matlab, Python, and C++, and at least three years of relevant industry experience.

Designs and builds highly scalable, fault-tolerant Azure compute services, microservices, REST APIs, billing pipelines, and distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving availability, security, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and compute utilization; using telemetry and data-driven insights; developing cloud-native solutions with containers, NoSQL, and Big Data technologies; and leveraging AI-assisted development in an Agile environment.

Design and lead development of high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure. Architect low-latency, low-jitter communication frameworks, optimize distributed systems, benchmark scalability, resolve complex networking issues, and improve reliability, observability, and performance. Mentor engineers, create technical designs, manage dependencies, and participate in on-call operations for critical services.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Early-career Software Engineer developing and maintaining Windows desktop fluid-flow simulation applications. Responsibilities span user interfaces, application logic, data models, integrations, testing, debugging, build automation, CI/CD, and modernization. The role involves collaboration with engineering, QA, product, and domain experts while contributing clean, maintainable code and participating in reviews, bug triage, and build pipeline rotations.

Design, build, and operate distributed storage and file-system platforms for cloud-scale AI training and inference. Architect storage and caching for Kubernetes and GPU workloads, improve performance, reliability, observability, and resiliency, diagnose cross-layer production issues, and lead architecture reviews. Partner across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and AI platform teams while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term storage strategy.

Own and improve Glydways’ Bazel monorepo infrastructure across C++, Python, and Go. Responsibilities include implementing remote caching and remote build execution, optimizing build and test performance, maintaining toolchains and dependencies, supporting embedded cross-compilation, improving CI/CD workflows with AWS and Buildkite, developing developer automation, monitoring build health, and participating in on-call support.

Develop and assure safety-critical software for autonomous ground vehicles. Perform hazard analyses including FHA, FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and robotic capability assessments; define safety architectures, requirements, mechanisms, and verification activities; support testing, technical reviews, and safety audits. Collaborate across engineering teams on MIL-STD-882E processes, model-based safety, embedded systems, AI/ML, and autonomous vehicle capabilities while communicating safety considerations and technical progress.

Build and maintain edge software that controls pharmacy automation hardware. Responsibilities include hardware communication over CAN, serial, USB, and Ethernet; fill-sequencing state machines; versioned contracts with microcontrollers and vision systems; and fail-closed behavior. The role requires production C, C++, or Rust on Linux, hardware-bus debugging, real-time orchestration, and embedded-device integration. Preferred experience includes industrial ARM/x86 platforms, field diagnostics, embedded Linux, NVIDIA Jetson, and robotics or medical devices.

Develop and optimize Firefox performance across Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS. Write code, tests, prototypes, and tooling; profile and diagnose bottlenecks; improve benchmarks; and lead performance initiatives. Collaborate across engineering teams, educate developers, drive projects to completion, own browser performance areas, and contribute to the team’s technical roadmap.

Leads and manages an 8–10-person storage engineering team responsible for MongoDB’s transactional read/write path, durability, availability, performance, indexing, and storage architecture. Owns the roadmap, customer escalations, cross-team initiatives, engineering quality, hiring, coaching, and execution. Partners with Replication, Query, Sharding, Atlas, and other teams on distributed systems and workload-management improvements.

Design and implement experiments deep within browser engine subsystems, including DOM, layout, rendering, accessibility, JavaScript runtimes, and networking. Investigate browser behavior, prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction, measure performance and correctness, profile overhead, and document results. The role requires hands-on systems engineering, browser platform expertise, large-codebase development, and collaboration on AI-agent tooling.

Lead architecture and hands-on development for Microsoft's virtualization platform, focusing on hypervisor and VMM capabilities. Design, implement, and optimize systems software across Windows, Linux, macOS, Azure, and containers. Improve performance, security, reliability, testing, and operational readiness; diagnose low-level hardware/software issues; enable virtualization on new silicon; mentor engineers; and influence platform strategy across teams and hardware partners.