Top Remote C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Designs and implements spacecraft attitude determination and control, guidance, navigation, and control architectures in embedded C++. Performs mission-specific analysis, simulation, requirements definition, sensor-calibration and geolocation pipeline development, anomaly resolution, and software- and hardware-in-the-loop testing. The role supports on-orbit systems and collaborates across spacecraft engineering disciplines. Remote work is available from approved states, with export-control eligibility requirements.

Leads multidisciplinary design, analysis, and optimization for unmanned aircraft, missiles, interceptors, and munitions. Integrates aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, GNC, CAD, CFD, FEA, and trajectory models into automated optimization workflows. Owns MDAO tool architecture, validation, documentation, and development pipelines; conducts trade studies, correlates models with test data, supports proposals, presents design reviews, and mentors engineers. Requires experience taking MDAO from conceptual sizing through flight testing and fielded hardware.

Lead the architecture, technical evolution, and hands-on development of a mission-critical software platform using Java, C++, and AI/ML technologies. Responsibilities include software design, coding, debugging, code reviews, testing, CI/CD, performance optimization, security, technical planning, customer troubleshooting, deployment support, documentation, and engineering leadership. The role requires occasional customer travel and may support critical incidents outside normal business hours.

Design, build, and maintain core gameplay systems, frameworks, Unreal Engine plugins, and multiplayer networking systems. Own technical architecture, performance, scalability, debugging, and technical debt reduction. Partner with designers and programmers, mentor engineers, lead code reviews and design discussions, document systems, and support sprint planning for an Unreal Engine game project.

Leads photonic integrated circuit test software architecture, infrastructure improvements, test-station automation, and hardware-control software development. Oversees software migration across LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, C#, and C++, while leading a small software team and mentoring engineers. The role supports electrical and optical testing of InP-based transceiver PICs at wafer, die, and subassembly levels, including vision systems, probe positioning, calibration, and test software revision control.

Develop and architect scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. The role involves building high-availability services, leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, improving quality practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, and addressing scalability, performance, and technical debt challenges.

Lead the Client Platform organization responsible for container image builds, software supply chain security, and over-the-air updates across customer environments. Manage engineering managers and approximately 10 engineers, establish engineering culture, drive architecture decisions, operate secure CI/CD pipelines, and own distributed update systems. Partner with security research, product management, and customer success to deliver the client-side roadmap.