Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, implement, and operate cloud-scale secure data access features for Azure Blob Storage. Lead end-to-end development, collaborate with stakeholders, improve availability, observability, performance, and apply AI-assisted engineering to enhance productivity and operations.

Hands-on Principal engineer who designs, builds, and operates production-grade Azure solutions with strategic customers; develops an observability-focused Azure service, supports live production via on-call and incident response, creates reusable tooling and reference implementations, and drives platform improvements while mentoring field engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end, accessible, secure full-stack software for a federal health/civilian agency. Build Section 508-compliant UIs, backend APIs, and services; follow API-first, CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices; identify and remediate technical debt; mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant government software.

Design, implement, and operate scalable, fault-tolerant web crawling and extraction pipelines processing massive web data. Write production Java/Python code, build ETL/ELT pipelines (BigQuery/Snowflake), use Kafka, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Terraform, and Airflow, and improve observability, reliability, and collaboration with product and data science teams.

Join a remote engineering team to write, test, and maintain code under senior guidance; participate in code reviews, standups, and sprint planning; debug and resolve application issues; and continuously learn new technologies and best practices.

Lead quality efforts across backend services, APIs, and customer-facing apps. Design and implement automated test frameworks, build custom tooling and load testing solutions, improve testing pipeline scalability, mentor engineers, and apply GenAI/LLMs to testing and test-generation challenges.

Lead end-to-end design, development, deployment, testing, and production support of enterprise web applications. Build scalable client/server architectures, ensure security and data governance, mentor team members, collaborate with product and business stakeholders, and own timely delivery and quality of solutions. Analyze data patterns and support reporting and selection workflows.

Design and deliver scalable control-plane and management services for Azure Storage at hyperscale. Lead architecture, reliability, and performance work for storage platforms that support AI workloads, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and own system health, incident response, and long-term technical roadmaps.

The Software Engineer Intern will develop and maintain full-stack applications, collaborating with various teams to build features for Clerkie Fiber, a B2B CRM.

Build end-to-end fullstack features for Threat Narrative and Email Details, implementing backend APIs, data models, and React/TypeScript UIs. Integrate GenAI/LLM systems to generate explainable narratives, own SLAs/SLOs and observability, participate in design/code reviews, and collaborate with product and cross-functional partners to improve detection explainability and customer-facing experiences.

Build and maintain intuitive frontend web applications for data upload, search, visualization, and interactive 2D/3D geospatial tools. Collaborate with scientists to design complex visualizations, modernize the frontend stack, mentor junior developers, and implement automated UI testing and deployment pipelines.

Own and ship full-stack product features in weekly cycles: scope solutions, build backend services and UIs, use AI tooling for development, ensure code quality and production readiness, measure impact, and communicate with stakeholders.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and deliver a core data platform, focusing on architecture, pipeline components, and AI integration. This hands-on role emphasizes creating production code and establishing technical standards within a small team.

Provide technical support for business applications, monitor system performance, support business and financial reporting, query and validate data with SQL, assist with data pipelines and basic bug fixes, use Git for version control, work with Azure and Excel/XLSX, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to design and deliver Ford Reservation Services. Build customer-facing features iteratively, collaborate with engineers and designers, apply TDD/XP/BDD practices, ensure accessibility, and mentor junior engineers while supporting fast feedback-driven development.

Design, implement, and maintain automated and manual tests across unit, component, integration, and end-to-end levels. Build scalable test frameworks, automate UI and API tests, run performance/load tests, produce test reports, report regressions, and collaborate with agile teams to influence design and ensure product testability and scalability.

Build and maintain high-performance Ruby on Rails services on a Rails/AWS/Kubernetes stack. Own end-to-end feature development, optimize DB queries and APIs, support legacy modernization and new product growth, participate in on-call rotation, and drive CI/CD, testing, and architectural improvements.

Build full-stack features for Google Drive and OAuth surfaces, design and ship LLM-powered agentic workflows for detection, investigation, and remediation, integrate with Google Workspace APIs at scale, partner with product and design, collaborate across teams, and contribute through mentorship, code review, and ownership from design to production.

Lead design and rewrite of cloud-native core systems. Build scalable back-end services and front-end features, drive architecture and testing discussions, mentor engineers, and improve telemetry, performance, and reliability.

Design, implement, and deliver Slate's software systems for digital customer experiences. Lead architecture, code and design reviews, own testing and integration, collaborate with UX/product, mentor engineers, and balance technical and business trade-offs.

Lead refactoring and optimization of scalable data pipelines, design next-generation distributed storage and processing systems, build clean interfaces for diverse data consumers, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards and processes.

Senior software developer supporting IRS mission-critical Java/middleware applications. Duties include production support, troubleshooting application and integration issues, incident response, release support/validation, enterprise API and microservices development, middleware (IBM webMethods), container orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes), application modernization, and Agile/DevSecOps collaboration. Occasional onsite support for meetings, deployments, or knowledge transfer is required.

Senior software developer responsible for implementing application-layer currency and supportability updates for middleware and microservices — including JDK/runtime upgrades, dependency remediation, certificate and credential updates, OpenShift/Linux compatibility, CI/CD and developer validation, rollback planning, and technical documentation.

Provide application-level production support and operations for enterprise middleware and integration services (IBM webMethods and Java-based BRE/BRMG). Troubleshoot production incidents, perform RCA, manage releases, validate failover/fallback, handle certificates/credentials, update runbooks, and maintain 24x7 operational readiness. Work with REST/SOAP APIs, microservices, OpenShift/Kubernetes, monitoring tools (AppDynamics, ELK), and ServiceNow for incident management.

Design, build, and operate scalable web applications, APIs, services, and AI-enabled workflows. Use AI tools across the development lifecycle, ensure reliability, performance, and observability, contribute to technical decisions, iterate from user feedback, and own production quality and delivery as part of cross-functional squads.