Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Provides technical leadership for real-time RF sensor software development, integration, testing, and validation. Designs high-performance C/C++ systems, integrates signal-processing algorithms, debugs distributed and multithreaded applications, and transitions MATLAB/Python prototypes into production software. The role includes technical mentoring, customer and government stakeholder engagement, proposal development, documentation, system demonstrations, visualization tools, and approximately 10% travel for integration and field-testing activities.

Owns company-critical, long-term technical problems across multiple teams and organizations. Defines technical strategy, architectures, roadmaps, and engineering standards for large-scale customer-facing systems. Remains hands-on in software development while driving AI adoption in products and engineering workflows. Partners with senior product, engineering, and executive leaders to resolve complex problems, improve reliability and performance, and shape Dropbox’s technical direction.

Build and own Arcadia’s internal developer platform across a large-scale data lakehouse and Kubernetes applications. Develop self-service APIs, templates, golden paths, CI/CD capabilities, observability, security controls, and reliability practices. Lead platform migrations, improve developer experience, manage stakeholder needs and costs, set technical direction, and coach senior engineers. The role requires hands-on software development alongside expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure as code, SLOs, incident response, and platform product management.

Develop and operate Java and Kotlin services for a large-scale cloud platform. Responsibilities include designing, testing, deploying, and improving software; diagnosing production reliability and performance issues; addressing scalability bottlenecks; enhancing observability; participating in incident response; and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and operational improvements.

Build and operate an agentic SOC investigation platform using LLMs, including telemetry tools, investigation workflows, evidence-backed outputs, evaluation systems, and analyst productivity features. Develop secure, reliable, observable backend services that handle attacker-influenced data across customer environments. Collaborate with SOC analysts, researchers, technical leads, and product managers to translate investigative expertise into production agent behavior.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

Design and deliver scalable, secure software systems for Bankrate’s digital products. Responsibilities include shaping architecture, developing APIs and cloud services, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, partnering with product and design, delivering large initiatives independently, resolving cross-team technical issues, mentoring engineers, improving engineering standards, and evaluating tools that enhance reliability, performance, and team productivity.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Build and maintain backend services and metadata pipelines supporting data discovery, governance, and AI/ML workflows. Responsibilities include integrating relational databases, developing Java, Node.js, and Python services, optimizing distributed pipelines, implementing Terraform infrastructure, supporting GitLab CI/CD, and writing comprehensive tests. The role also involves troubleshooting scalability and reliability issues, designing asynchronous workflows, and collaborating on modern data lake, search, metadata, and LLM-enabled technologies.

Lead the architecture and technical direction of Forward Financing’s core fintech platform. Design scalable distributed backend systems, guide cross-team initiatives, establish engineering best practices, resolve incidents, and mentor engineers. The role owns the technical roadmap and architectural vision while partnering across teams to improve reliability, observability, code quality, and delivery. Ruby on Rails expertise is required, along with strong communication, influence, agile development experience, and a broad backend or full-stack perspective.

Design and deliver development infrastructure systems, maintain CI/CD tools and pipelines, improve GitHub Actions, Docker images, and deployment workflows, and resolve complex on-call issues. The role involves cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, containerization, microservices, generative AI workflows, code reviews, planning, and coaching other engineers.

Develop and maintain a mission-critical .NET financial web application. Responsibilities include full-stack development with C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, and jQuery; SOAP/XML integrations; Oracle SQL and PL/SQL database work; secure coding; unit testing; production troubleshooting; Agile delivery; documentation; and collaboration with product, business, and testing teams.

Enhances Akamai’s platform core services by designing and implementing scalable, highly available software for data collection, streaming, processing, telemetry, delivery, and visualization. Develops full-stack applications and highly concurrent systems using Java and cloud technologies, optimizes performance, supports distributed network services, and troubleshoots complex production issues. The role focuses on security, scalability, low latency, and high throughput.

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.

Design, build, deploy, and operate secure cloud-native microservices for Cyderes’ Security-as-a-Service platform. Translate customer and business needs into technical requirements, develop APIs, manage containerized workloads across major cloud providers, improve testing and CI/CD, and participate in code reviews, mentoring, documentation, security practices, and on-call production support.

Develops and operates scalable Azure cloud platforms integrating specialized partner technologies. Responsibilities include implementing features, participating in code reviews, applying testing and debugging practices, analyzing telemetry and incidents, using AI-assisted development tools, and contributing to deployment automation. The role collaborates with engineers, product managers, and partners to deliver reliable services for enterprise and AI infrastructure workloads.

Develop and maintain integrations across modern .NET services and legacy .NET Framework applications. Build REST APIs, event-driven services, shared libraries, and synchronous or asynchronous workflows. Own work through testing, deployment, production support, and on-call rotations. Contribute to API standards, platform architecture, documentation, code reviews, and onboarding. Use AI-assisted coding tools daily across development, testing, reviews, and documentation.

Build and maintain full-stack software using TypeScript, Go, and Python, including backend, frontend, and architectural development. Collaborate with developers, designers, product managers, and Department of Defense stakeholders to develop AI-powered solutions, take products from concept to launch, conduct code reviews, and support customers through travel when needed.

Develop and maintain Java and Spring-based applications, Angular front ends, REST services, microservices, SQL integrations, and loyalty platform components. Participate in Agile planning, design, coding, documentation, testing, estimation, mentoring, and process improvement. Work with cloud platforms, message queues, Docker, Kubernetes, and build management tools while collaborating with product teams and third parties.

Build and scale backend systems, APIs, infrastructure, and applications for multimodal sensing and AI intelligence platforms. Responsibilities include processing sensor, audio, video, and environmental data; supporting data pipelines and model inference; ensuring reliability, scalability, and data integrity; and contributing to engineering standards and long-term technical strategy.

Build and scale AI-native healthcare products through full-stack applications, backend services, data pipelines, and AI systems. Design, test, deploy, and operate production-ready software, run A/B tests, automate manual workflows, and collaborate with product, operations, and AI/ML teams. The role requires end-to-end ownership of scalable, secure, reliable systems and features, with a focus on performance, data integrity, clean code, and measurable business outcomes.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines, backend services, APIs, and infrastructure powering AI-driven healthcare applications. Design distributed data systems, ETL workflows, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures while partnering with AI, machine learning, and product teams. Own production reliability, observability, security, automation, and on-call support for business-critical systems.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable platform software and services. Collaborate with architecture and cross-functional teams, implement platform features, participate in code reviews, document technical specifications, troubleshoot issues, and optimize performance and scalability. The role requires Go development, scripting, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, containerization, cloud networking, and CI/CD experience.