Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Design, build, test, and operate production-grade, secure, and scalable software and services. Partner with customers to translate requirements into technical designs, drive engineering best practices (CI/CD, testing, observability), deliver end-to-end solutions, lead technical workstreams, and apply AI/LLM approaches where appropriate to produce production-ready outcomes.

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 performance engineering for massive-scale HPC and AI workloads across InfiniBand-connected GPU clusters. Diagnose communication bottlenecks, analyze fabric behavior, tune RDMA and QoS, develop telemetry tooling, optimize topology-aware communication, benchmark distributed workloads, and collaborate with operations and hardware vendors on next-generation interconnects.

Build and ship SMART on FHIR applications, FHIR R4 APIs, CDS Hooks services, and EHR integrations for Epic, Oracle Health, and other platforms. Develop Java and Spring Boot backend services on AWS, manage PHI securely under HIPAA, and support HL7 v2 interfaces. Lead EHR vendor onboarding and production go-lives, collaborate with clinicians and health system IT, write technical designs, review code, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support.

Lead the design and development of Azure Compute Fleet capabilities that orchestrate Virtual Machine Scale Sets across regions. Build distributed control-plane services, APIs, and workflows for capacity placement, scaling, failover, and lifecycle management. Collaborate across Azure engineering teams, drive AI-enabled engineering improvements, participate in on-call operations, and improve reliability, observability, performance, and recovery for hyperscale cloud services.

Design and maintain distributed Lance dataset operations, develop high-performance indices and data formats, and improve query performance across Spark, Ray, and Trino. Contribute Rust-based table formats and encodings, integrate Lance with major open-source data infrastructure systems, operate internal data processing infrastructure, and promote the project through open-source communities and conferences.

Design, build, and operate Chainguard’s container product, including registry features, image build pipelines, distribution systems, adoption tooling, and customer-facing services. Own projects end to end, make product trade-offs, collaborate with customers and product managers, improve observability and reliability, support on-call operations, and use AI coding agents safely. The role requires systems thinking across containers, registries, build infrastructure, and customer clusters in a remote-first environment.

Build and operate full-stack product capabilities for a cybersecurity platform, with an 80% backend and 20% frontend focus. Own moderate-to-large projects from technical design through rollout, develop APIs and distributed services, create modern web experiences, and ensure reliability, observability, and maintainability. Collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering teams, contribute to architecture, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and improve product quality and execution.

Build secure, production-critical payment infrastructure for AI agent transactions. Design Python and FastAPI services, APIs, domain models, provisioning workflows, and cryptographic payment flows. Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, security, and comprehensive testing. Use Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and GitOps to automate infrastructure. Collaborate with product, security, infrastructure, platform, and card-network partners while applying AI-assisted engineering practices.

Build, deploy, and maintain production software that improves robotics operations. Develop internal tools, dashboards, automations, and integrations; learn and contribute to an Elixir-heavy system and Google Cloud applications. Partner with Operations and Engineering to discover workflow improvements, validate AI-assisted code, improve reliability, and support applications after launch.

Own the end-to-end development of a secure SMS Adapter connecting retail and grocery store systems, beginning with BRdata, to Ottimate’s AP platform. Responsibilities include sync architecture, retries, conflict handling, local credential security, monitoring, testing, packaging, updates, installation, and deployment on Windows machines. The engineer will work directly with pilot customers to troubleshoot network, permissions, and data-access issues while evolving data models and integrations for additional store systems.

Build and improve Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for Linux and Windows containers. Develop distributed cloud infrastructure, automation, observability tooling, and reliability improvements at global scale. Support AI-native infrastructure, including GPU orchestration, model deployment, inference, and platform operations. Accelerate engineering workflows, prevent production incidents, integrate AI tools, and contribute to Kubernetes and cloud-native platform innovation.

Own and evolve cloud infrastructure, internal developer tooling, release automation, preview environments, and reliability practices. Build reusable libraries and SDKs, improve monitoring and tracing, manage SLOs and incident response, and solve scaling challenges across data and compute systems. The role requires strong AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, TypeScript and Node.js knowledge, startup infrastructure experience, and clear technical documentation.

Build scalable Golang microservices, APIs, and data-centric systems supporting eligibility, coverage, billing, client workflows, and healthcare operations. Automate manual processes, develop self-service tools, ensure data accuracy and traceability, and collaborate with data and AI teams on validation, automation, and anomaly detection. The role requires production backend experience, event-based architectures, cloud platforms, and strong stakeholder communication.

Build and maintain an internal application framework with authentication, hosting, CI/CD, observability, and alerting defaults. Develop custom tools such as Slack bots, web applications, and workflows for business teams. Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, integrate SaaS products and APIs, and own projects from scoping through adoption. Partner with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders while applying AI-assisted development and automation.

Design and operate production infrastructure for AI agent systems, including high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution. Build scalable distributed systems, MLOps capabilities, observability, guardrails, and failure recovery for millions of users. Optimize latency, throughput, reliability, and cost while partnering with agent systems and infrastructure teams to harden experimental prototypes for production.

Develop and support Salesforce Service Cloud and enterprise integrations using Apex, LWC, Flows, APIs, and platform events. Lead complex technical implementations, testing, deployments, production issue resolution, and SDLC activities in an Agile environment. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, ensure Salesforce best practices and security, mentor junior developers, document standards, and improve operational efficiency through automation and AI-enabled capabilities.

Leads architecture, development, and deployment of scalable cloud-native backend platforms integrating AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and Salesforce. Designs distributed services, APIs, data migration pipelines, and enterprise integrations while driving observability, resilience, security, and performance. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, influences architecture, and collaborates with product, business, and AI/ML teams to deliver highly available enterprise systems.

Design, develop, deploy, and operate cloud-scale Azure regional networking infrastructure spanning router hardware, operating systems, optical transceivers, and distributed orchestration systems. Lead architecture and cross-team technical initiatives, write maintainable code, improve reliability, observability, performance, and automation, apply AI-driven engineering practices, and mentor engineers while collaborating with hardware, supply chain, datacenter operations, research, vendors, and senior leaders.

Build and maintain a full-stack sewer inspection analysis platform using React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS, computer vision, geospatial analysis, and Temporal.io. Responsibilities include developing interactive dashboards, scalable APIs, video-processing workflows, mapping and risk-assessment tools, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.

Build and maintain Life360’s iOS advertising SDK, mediation and header-bidding integrations, ad formats, privacy and consent flows, instrumentation, and experimentation systems. Improve ad quality, performance, and reliability at large scale while collaborating with ad operations, data, product, and external partners. Use AI-native workflows with agentic coding tools, contribute to architecture and incident response, and mentor teammates.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Design, build, and operate MongoDB Atlas features and distributed backend systems, with a focus on encryption, compliance, customer-managed keys, and cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Lead complex technical projects and fleet-wide production rollouts, collaborate with product, design, customers, and support teams, mentor engineers, resolve production issues, and participate in on-call support.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.