Top Remote C++ Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and improve cluster-level storage performance. Collaborate across teams, produce design docs, implement and optimize code, perform tuning and RCA, act as DRI, and participate in on-call operations and scaling/validation efforts.

Lead design and build of production-ready cloud and AI systems, prioritize security and reliability, ship solutions quickly using modern engineering practices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, drive customer adoption, and deliver reusable assets and end-to-end complex deliveries.

Leads and manages the Flutter mobile engineering team while contributing hands-on to mobile application design, development, performance, debugging, SDK creation, and releases. Collaborates with firmware, hardware, QA, UI/UX, and product teams to deliver integrated communication applications. Provides technical direction, mentoring, customer issue support, estimation, implementation guidance, and engineering process improvements.

Develop and deploy reliable software for a distributed SQL database in a fast-paced production environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and owning projects throughout the product lifecycle. Work may involve LLMs, vector indexes, database fault tolerance, SQL query performance, SIMD, LLVM code generation, search, and query optimization. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams while developing professionally alongside experienced engineers.

Develop and deploy reliable software for SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and improving systems involving query optimization, fault tolerance, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, LLMs, vector indexes, SIMD, and LLVM code generation. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration across teams, and participation throughout the product lifecycle.

Develop and maintain C/C++ embedded software and firmware for optical transport systems. Design, integrate, and verify real-time solutions on RTOS platforms, including drivers, interrupt handling, and control firmware. Collaborate on hardware, ARM processors, and FPGA-based systems, while troubleshooting complex software, hardware, optics, and multiprocessor issues.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals and indexing/query features for large-scale document workloads, extend query engine with BSON-aware operators and custom scan nodes, tune index pruning and storage, profile distributed systems for performance, collaborate with open-source DocumentDB/PostgreSQL communities, and participate in design/code reviews.

Lead engineering for a hyperscale deployment platform serving Microsoft 365 services. Design and deliver scalable deployment features across the full software lifecycle, mentor engineers, and drive automation and AI-powered solutions that improve reliability, efficiency, performance, and operational excellence. Collaborate with product managers and partner teams while ensuring high-quality, maintainable, production-grade software.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals, indexing, query engine extensions, and storage-layer features to support large-scale document workloads on Azure. Profile distributed systems, tune performance, collaborate with open-source communities, conduct design/code reviews, and drive cross-team alignment for mission-critical database features.

Develop and maintain microservices-based, real-time software for mission-critical air traffic systems. Collaborate with product, systems engineering, QA, DevOps, and platform teams in an Agile/SAFe environment. Translate requirements into reliable solutions, integrate APIs, databases, messaging systems, and external services, and contribute to design and technical decisions. Apply CI/CD, DevSecOps, automated testing, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and AI-assisted development tools. The role is fully remote and requires Public Trust eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Leads the technical vision, architecture, and execution of AI performance, framework, benchmarking, and developer-productivity initiatives. Drives cross-team architecture, resolves complex systems trade-offs, mentors technical leaders, and contributes hands-on through prototyping, implementation, reviews, debugging, observability, and automation. Delivers measurable improvements in model onboarding speed, runtime performance, reliability, hardware utilization, and Azure capacity efficiency across models, frameworks, compilers, runtimes, systems, services, and hardware.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Develop kernel-centric reliability solutions for AI compute clusters and production services. Responsibilities include debugging failures, building diagnostic tools, supporting incident response, performing root-cause analysis, improving kernel and software reliability, and collaborating with systems, hardware, ASIC, and architecture teams on reliability-focused designs.

Design, develop, and maintain high-quality cloud-based applications within an Agile team. Collaborate on architecture, product requirements, and software development; troubleshoot production issues; evaluate technologies; provide technical leadership; and optimize performance through memory management, parallelization, and algorithm efficiency. The role also involves building multitenant database architectures, implementing secure APIs and event-driven systems, writing unit tests, and debugging complex software issues.

Develop and evolve Azure capacity infrastructure, platform capabilities, and service stacks at scale. Provide technical leadership in requirements, architecture, design, coding, release planning, and operational reliability. Mentor engineers, manage cross-product dependencies, serve as a designated responsible individual, participate in on-call support, and improve system availability, observability, performance, and efficiency.

Lead architecture and design for Azure capacity infrastructure, leveraging AI/Copilot to evolve platforms and tools. Guide virtual teams, define requirements and design documents, drive releases, optimize and refactor code, monitor systems as DRI, and ensure products meet scalability, performance, security, and reliability goals.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop and build tools for creative projects while leading feature development and collaborating with teammates.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Lead the UI engineering discipline for a new game franchise, building and maintaining production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ with Unreal Engine 5. Manage, mentor, and develop UI engineers while providing technical guidance across gameplay disciplines. Collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences, including HUDs, menus, fonts, and localization workflows.

Designs, develops, and optimizes high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale distributed AI training and inference in Azure. Responsibilities include building low-latency communication frameworks, benchmarking scalability, debugging complex networking issues, improving code performance and reliability, creating technical designs, participating in on-call operations, and guiding engineers. The role emphasizes observability, availability, scalability, and performance across diverse network architectures and accelerator technologies.

Own localization requirements, simulation and track testing, Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, and unit test coverage for autonomous ground vehicle software. Collaborate with autonomy, systems, safety, and hardware teams; review requirements and code; configure localization and safety algorithms; and support systems-level solutions. The role requires source-level C++ understanding, requirements management, safety standards familiarity, and testing across unit, simulation, track, and HIL environments.

Leads cloud platform maturity, architecture, modernization, continuous delivery, observability, incident response, and technical standards. Collaborates across software, infrastructure, security, networking, database, and operations teams while driving Agile improvements, executive communications, technical documentation, customer issue resolution, RFI responses, and strategic adoption of cloud, AI, analytics, and digital technologies.

Build scalable Kubernetes-based Azure Arc platform capabilities for hybrid cloud, datacenter, and edge environments. Develop and operate KubeVirt and KVM virtualization platforms, create distributed systems and RESTful services, and contribute to design, coding, estimation, monitoring, reliability, observability, and on-call operations. Collaborate with Microsoft partner teams and the open-source community to deliver cloud-native infrastructure at scale.

Lead development of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems from concept to flight-ready software. Design and simulate algorithms, translate requirements into embedded implementations, support HIL and flight test, analyze test data, coordinate across vehicle design, avionics, structures and testing, and document results while mitigating technical risk.

Develop, modernize, operate, and maintain mission-critical software for CNMOC. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, testing, debugging, ETL/ELT pipeline development, data integration, cloud and container operations, translating customer needs into user stories, sprint delivery, technical communication, and mentoring developers. The role also supports geospatial systems, databases, DevSecOps practices, Agile ceremonies, and customer issue escalation.