Top Remote Ruby Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and maintain cloud-based development, build, testing, deployment, and production infrastructure. Own platform systems using Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, AWS, Docker, and CI/CD tools. Collaborate with engineers on a you-build-it-you-run-it platform, troubleshoot incidents, lead postmortems, address root causes, and automate improvements to enhance reliability, performance, and stability.

Lead Apollo’s Rep Experience engineering team building prospecting, account management, task orchestration, dashboards, and AI-driven recommendations. Responsibilities include technical decision-making, architecture, planning, coding mentorship, hiring, people management, on-call sustainability, estimation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, Design, GTM, and engineering leadership.

Build and operate reliable, scalable production infrastructure for GitLab’s user-facing services. Responsibilities include developing infrastructure automation and tooling, managing Kubernetes deployments, maintaining infrastructure as code, supporting CI/CD and GitOps, participating in on-call and incident response, improving observability and SLOs, troubleshooting production systems, and documenting operational practices. The role spans Intermediate through Senior Staff levels and requires strong software engineering, cloud, reliability, and asynchronous collaboration skills.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Build, test, ship, and operate production backend features with minimal guidance. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and bounded services while maintaining security, performance, observability, and reliability. Review code, improve automated testing, investigate production issues, address technical debt, participate in operational support, and collaborate asynchronously with product, frontend, infrastructure, and security teams. Use AI coding tools responsibly by validating and correcting generated output.

Leads more than 10 engineers across Agent Tools, Agent Observability, and Runner Execution. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, prioritization, technical design, AI tool standards, safe agent execution, sandboxing, observability, and cross-functional partnership across GitLab’s AI organization.

Build and operate AWS GovCloud data infrastructure across development, preproduction, and production environments. Establish PostgreSQL platforms, infrastructure-as-code with Chef, BI infrastructure, identity integrations, monitoring, observability, CI/CD, and disaster recovery. Support data pipelines, troubleshoot incidents, optimize databases, and ensure FedRAMP and FISMA compliance. Collaborate with security, compliance, DevOps, and data engineering teams while delivering greenfield infrastructure from architecture through production.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

As a Fullstack Engineer, you'll design, build, and operate web applications, collaborating with product teams and mentoring peers while ensuring best practices in coding and system architecture.

Provide advanced technical support for large MongoDB customers across the full MongoDB ecosystem (server, drivers, Atlas, Cloud Manager). Troubleshoot performance, architecture, recovery, security and storage issues end-to-end, develop support tools, mentor new hires, and liaise with product and engineering teams. Work EST shifts with a weekend shift expectation after ramp and participate in occasional off-hours coverage or regional events.

Lead customer migrations from self-managed GitLab to GitLab Dedicated using GitLab Geo. Plan replication, cutovers, network connectivity, and post-migration validation while debugging synchronization issues. Build repeatable automation, runbooks, and infrastructure validation using Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Manage multiple customer engagements, advise stakeholders, communicate technical plans, and collaborate with Professional Services, Product, and Engineering teams.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and maintain systems, mentor team members, and improve both code quality and team practices.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Lead the development of healthcare applications and data systems, focusing on audience intelligence and compliance. Design scalable data pipelines, APIs, and reporting systems while ensuring high data quality and security in regulated environments.

Develop and maintain full-stack features for a secure, cloud-based medical imaging platform. Responsibilities include JavaScript and Perl development, PostgreSQL query and schema work, full-stack debugging, testing, code reviews, documentation, and production troubleshooting. The role also contributes to AWS/Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and integrations involving DICOM and HL7. Developers work independently in an Agile team and gradually expand across multiple languages and services.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and work-item hierarchies, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor contributors, and participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.

Lead technical initiatives and architectural decisions for stream-aligned software teams. Build, evolve, and support scalable distributed web applications while applying software development, testing, security, data modeling, microservices, and API best practices. Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to translate business goals into technical requirements, contribute to roadmaps and documentation, evaluate technologies, and mentor mid-level engineers in an agile environment.

Develop and maintain automated testing tools and frameworks for complex healthcare software. Create test plans, execute white-box, black-box, UI, API, and performance testing, identify defects and testing gaps, improve CI/CD processes, and collaborate with product managers and developers to support high-quality releases. The role also involves debugging code, participating in demos, and working with distributed teams in a remote environment.

Build and operate CrewAI’s cloud and enterprise infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Develop CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, observability, security controls, self-hosted installation tooling, and reliability processes. Support containers, Kubernetes, databases, queues, networking, secrets, and production workloads. Participate in incident response and on-call operations while partnering with runtime and product engineering teams to improve deployment safety, scalability, and customer production environments.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, databases, data flows, and infrastructure. Lead complex features from design through deployment while improving performance, observability, security, reliability, and testing. Integrate third-party systems, support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, and provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, databases, data flows, and infrastructure. Leads complex features from design through deployment while improving performance, observability, security, testing, and reliability. Integrates third-party platforms, supports cloud infrastructure and CI/CD practices, and mentors engineers through technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Designs and implements scalable software architecture and web-based systems using Java EE and related technologies. Responsibilities include developing front-end and backend functionality, evaluating tools and designs, troubleshooting, conducting root-cause analysis, collaborating with QA and project teams, participating in code reviews, documenting solutions, mentoring engineers, and serving as a technical lead across multiple projects.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support scalable backend applications across the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with product, UX, nutrition, vendors, and business stakeholders to define solutions and interfaces. Solve complex architectural problems, refactor code, mentor engineers, communicate technical direction, and develop distributed systems using cloud, big-data, and backend technologies.