Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, architect, and implement cloud-first full-stack software using Java/C# and JavaScript frameworks. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, improve architecture and performance, promote CI and automated testing, and support customer implementation and cloud platform operations.

Design, build, and maintain backend BI tooling, data pipelines, and platform features to generate operational metrics. Improve code quality, scalability, reliability, and performance; implement testing strategies; translate business requirements into technical plans; and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with product and stakeholder teams to deliver data-intensive analytics and reporting solutions.

Own and improve Attentive's first-party data collection across the JS tag, Cloudflare Workers, and Java backend. Expand edge compute capabilities, build agentic AI systems to detect and fix data-quality issues, harden the event ingestion pipeline for reliability and observability, and lead technical direction on a small autonomous team while mentoring engineers.

Lead design, development, and deployment of scalable, fault-tolerant cloud-native microservices. Own architecture, mentor engineers, run on-call rotations, triage production incidents, optimize performance, and collaborate with product and stakeholders to deliver full‑stack and mobile solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain custom test frameworks for Illumina's primary analysis software. Create and expand automated tests, troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines, investigate failures, collaborate with developers to diagnose root causes, and ensure tests are reproducible, documented, and maintainable as analysis capabilities evolve.

Design and develop native Sage Intacct payment integrations and AR/AP workflows, implement APIs/SDKs, ensure PCI-compliant secure architectures, troubleshoot integration issues, collaborate with product/support teams, produce documentation, and monitor/optimize integration performance.

Design, build, and own disposable isolated microVM sandboxes and related runtime infrastructure for AI coding agents. Improve reliability, performance, and security across macOS, Windows, and Linux; lead architecture, mentor engineers, engage open-source communities, participate in on-call rotations, and collaborate with Product and adjacent teams.

Lead design and implementation of scalable data ingestion, transformation, and search systems for security telemetry. Build and maintain event-streaming pipelines, integrate third-party data sources, partner with product stakeholders, apply AI agents for data mapping and correlation, set engineering standards, improve observability and testing, and mentor junior engineers.

Architect and implement latency-critical protocol components (consensus, state sync, mempool) in Rust. Build fault-tolerant distributed systems, optimize throughput and latency, collaborate with research/product, debug live systems, and contribute testing, benchmarking, and release standards.

Lead design, build, and operation of AI-powered product features across backend, frontend, and AI systems. Make architecture decisions, drive production deployments, improve code quality and reliability, mentor engineers, and own features end-to-end.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering across AI, data, backend, and frontend systems. Drive architecture, remove technical risks, set engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and influence cross-team technical direction.

Lead company-level technical direction for an AI-native insurance platform. Own architecture across AI, data, infrastructure, and product; resolve high-impact technical decisions; establish org-wide engineering standards; and mentor senior engineers while partnering with founders to shape long-term technical vision.

Lead architecture and implementation to scale a large Kubernetes-native microservice platform into cell-based deployments. Decompose services, build shared libraries and configuration frameworks, enable private/isolated cloud deployments, land changes in product services, set architecture patterns, partner with Cloud Platform/SRE/DevEx, mentor senior engineers, and embed AI tooling into development workflows.

Lead technical strategy to scale a multi-ecosystem libraries platform: generalize package indexing, build orchestration, and remediation automation from CVE detection to verified release. Drive agentic/AI-driven patch generation, set platform architecture and SLOs, mentor senior engineers, own incident response, and get hands-on resolving toolchain, compiler, and packaging failures for new ecosystems (.NET, Go, Rust).

Lead cross-functional teams to define and evolve platform and application architecture, introduce new technologies and best practices, solve cross-team technical challenges, guide global cloud and regulated (FedRAMP) deployments, and mentor engineers while driving engineering quality, observability, and production readiness.

Lead design and implementation of large-scale Pub/Sub and messaging services within Azure Event Grid/Microsoft Fabric. Define scalable, reliable architectures, drive testing and CI/CD automation, build developer tooling, mentor engineers, manage incident response and operational excellence, and collaborate with PMs, EMs, researchers, and customers to deliver production-ready cloud services.

The Senior Software Engineer designs and develops complex features within OneStream solutions, ensuring technical excellence and mentoring other engineers. Responsibilities include architectural design, UI development, API creation, performance improvements, and collaboration across teams.

SewerAI seeks a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer to develop an AI-powered sewer inspection platform, focusing on computer vision, geospatial analysis, and robust data pipelines.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native applications using .NET and React. Develop backend services, APIs, and front-end interfaces while ensuring system stability and scalability. Collaborate across teams to improve healthcare solutions through software and AI-powered tools.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Alpaca's platform services, including event streaming infrastructure and authentication systems, while ensuring software quality and reliability.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build scalable market data systems, improve API architecture, and enhance overall system performance, contributing to Alpaca's infrastructure for trading financial assets.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop scalable systems for cash delivery, improve developer workflows, and collaborate with teams to enhance program delivery.

Develop high-reliability software for safety-critical applications in UAS technology. Collaborate with teams, maintain solutions, and automate processes.

Lead technical direction and deliver collision-free motion planning for humanoid robots. Design, implement, test, and deploy trajectory optimization, MPC, and sample-based planners; architect modular planning systems integrated with perception, state estimation, and control; develop algorithms robust to uncertainty; and provide cross-team technical leadership and mentorship.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will manage and scale LiveKit's core infrastructure, focusing on reliability and performance, while working on Golang code and automation for distributed systems.