Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Build full-stack software, backend services, APIs, frontend experiences, and shared integration capabilities supporting AI initiatives across Keeper’s products. Integrate LLMs, agents, and tool-calling workflows into secure production environments while maintaining zero-knowledge principles. Troubleshoot cross-product systems, improve reliability and observability, contribute to architecture and code reviews, automate testing and CI/CD, and collaborate with AI, product, and engineering teams.

Lead development of a massively distributed edge compute platform. Design fault-tolerant systems, external APIs, high-throughput traffic routing, and Kubernetes-based resource management. Establish architecture standards, reliability metrics, security practices, and technical governance. Collaborate with AI/ML, hardware, networking, and security teams; communicate risks to executives; manage customer requirements; review code; and mentor engineers on distributed systems best practices.

Lead backend TypeScript development and maintain services used by ~5M users. Contribute to full-stack features, code reviews, architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with PM/design to build React-based web and mobile experiences.

Build and scale backend systems for a high-traffic donor CRM and payments platform. Own performant SQL and realtime querying, optimize payment flows, implement AI agents, and collaborate across product and design to ship resilient, production-grade features at scale.

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.

Software Engineer Interns spend 12 weeks contributing to collaborative engineering teams at SingleStore. They develop features, test software, own projects end-to-end, and continuously deploy work to production. Interns gain exposure to the product lifecycle and business while working with experienced engineering mentors and cross-functional teams. The role requires strong computer science fundamentals, programming ability in JavaScript, Golang, or TypeScript, and an interest in building reliable software.

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.

Build and operate Conduit’s control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design reconciliation-based lifecycle systems, schema-driven APIs, usage metering, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Own contracts, versioning, reliability, asynchronous workflows, and cross-functional coordination. Participate in on-call support while improving platform maintainability and automation.

Build and operate Conduit's control plane services for provisioning, updating, repairing, and retiring customer infrastructure. Design schema-driven lifecycle systems, usage metering, APIs, contracts, internal tooling, and integrations with billing and partner systems. Ensure reliability through reconciliation, event-driven workflows, idempotency, retries, and eventual consistency. Own cross-team interfaces, improve maintainability, participate in on-call, and debug complex production issues across networking, performance, data integrity, and security boundaries.

Architect and deliver complex distributed systems using Azure cloud-native technologies, microservices, APIs, and event-driven patterns. Lead architecture reviews, reliability initiatives, performance optimization, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools while maintaining security and code quality. Collaborate across engineering, DevOps, QA, and product teams, and mentor engineers on technical design, development practices, and AI-enabled workflows.

Develop and maintain PX4 autopilot firmware for UAVs, integrating sensors and payloads, and managing testing environments. Collaborate on flight operations and system integration.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks for AI-powered applications, APIs, backend services, and distributed systems. Defines test strategies, acceptance criteria, evaluation metrics, tolerances, and quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic software. Builds regression, integration, API, and end-to-end coverage; evaluates LLMs, agents, prompts, and tool-calling workflows; integrates testing into CI/CD; analyzes failures, telemetry, and logs; reduces flaky tests; and partners with AI, engineering, and product teams on continuous quality practices.

Lead design, development, and operation of highly available AKS Resource Provider and control-plane services. Drive cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, security, scalability, observability, resiliency, and incident prevention for large-scale distributed cloud systems. Collaborate across Azure engineering teams, lead architectural decisions, improve tooling and automation, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor engineers while supporting reliable Kubernetes workloads across cloud and edge environments.

Lead the architecture, development, testing, and deployment of hyperscale distributed storage systems optimized for AI and machine learning workloads. Drive innovations in scalability, performance, security, durability, and efficiency while collaborating with AI researchers and cloud infrastructure teams. Mentor engineers, guide technical strategy, and help shape Azure Blob Storage into an AI-native platform supporting zettabyte-scale storage.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for operating and improving business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure. Duties include developing monitoring, alerting, logging, CI/CD workflows, scalable data integrations, automated testing, deployment automation, and production support. The role troubleshoots workflow failures, data-quality issues, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure incidents while collaborating with data engineers, platform engineers, and architects. Preferred experience includes Databricks, Spark, AWS, Terraform, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, observability, identity management, and enterprise data platform governance.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Build and operate high-throughput data ingestion and ETL pipelines that transform autonomous pentest outputs into structured, queryable data. Responsibilities include schema design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, data normalization, production troubleshooting, and collaboration on data contracts with downstream teams. The role uses Go and/or Python, message queues, relational and graph databases, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS. It also provides engineering guidance to less experienced team members.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Lead backend architecture and engineering initiatives for a programmatic advertising platform. Design and optimize high-throughput, latency-sensitive ad-serving and auction systems; integrate SSPs, DSPs, exchanges, and other partners; improve reliability and performance; and guide technical strategy. The role also involves mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, driving major projects from architecture through production, and collaborating with Product and other stakeholders.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

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.

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient Azure VM Scale Set cloud services. Own features from architecture through deployment and operations, solve distributed-systems challenges at hyperscale, and drive reliability, security, performance, disaster recovery, testing, monitoring, automation, and engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform capabilities and customer outcomes.

Develop and maintain scalable web applications using C#, ASP.NET Core, React, and SQL databases. Participate across the software development lifecycle, including design, coding, testing, deployment, code reviews, and Agile ceremonies. Use AI-assisted development tools, contribute to cloud-native distributed systems, apply DevOps and CI/CD practices, and collaborate with product managers and engineers to deliver customer-focused solutions.

Develop, maintain, enhance, and support a mission-critical HUD enterprise application using Java, JavaScript, SQL, and related web technologies. Responsibilities include full-stack development, UI and API implementation, database workflows, troubleshooting, code reviews, testing, releases, deployment support, documentation, and compliance with security and accessibility standards.