Top Senior C++ Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable, secure Azure networking software and automation tools. Act as DRI, monitor production, troubleshoot incidents, run root-cause analysis, and drive reliability, performance, and cost improvements. Collaborate with PMs and architects, participate in design/code reviews, mentor engineers, and champion security, privacy, and compliance.

Design and develop scalable C++ software for endpoint state and control across Windows, macOS, and potentially Linux. Build reliable, multi-process systems that enforce endpoint behavior, manage local state, support IPC, and operate across millions of devices. Responsibilities include implementing features, improving platform performance, writing design documents, defining architecture and IPC contracts, and making technical decisions in an evolving, sparsely documented environment.

Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Build and maintain robotics software for motion and trajectory planning, kinematics, controls, world modeling, device integration, and multi-robot coordination. Develop collision-free plans for physical robotic manipulators, contribute to learning-based methods and simulation, and validate systems through testing. Collaborate with hardware and process engineers, mentor teammates, review code, document systems, and ensure safe, reliable operation on real hardware.

Provides technical leadership for Azure SQL databases supporting a highly available Azure service. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, reliability and capacity planning, schema changes, data migrations, observability, incident response, root cause analysis, operational automation, and technical strategy. The role partners with software engineers, SREs, and architects to improve scalability, durability, cost efficiency, and long-term service reliability across teams.

Design, build, and maintain core gameplay systems, frameworks, Unreal Engine plugins, and multiplayer networking systems. Own technical architecture, performance, scalability, debugging, and technical debt reduction. Partner with designers and programmers, mentor engineers, lead code reviews and design discussions, document systems, and support sprint planning for an Unreal Engine game project.

Designs and develops FPGA SmartNIC networking acceleration for Microsoft Azure. Responsibilities include hardware architecture evaluation, RTL coding in Verilog/SystemVerilog, simulation, hardware testing, debugging, verification, scripting, software development, Agile collaboration, and production DevOps support. The role partners across hardware and software teams to deliver cloud networking infrastructure, including SDN capabilities, packet manipulation, and performance improvements.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals and indexing/query features for large-scale document workloads, extend query engine with BSON-aware operators and custom scan nodes, tune index pruning and storage, profile distributed systems for performance, collaborate with open-source DocumentDB/PostgreSQL communities, and participate in design/code reviews.

Own operations and reliability for hyperscale Azure GPU clusters and interconnect fabrics. Lead production incident triage, mitigation, recovery, root-cause analysis, and cross-stack debugging across hardware, PCIe, GPUs, firmware, drivers, and software. Develop automation, telemetry, diagnostic tools, operational playbooks, and escalation procedures to improve observability and reduce mitigation time. Partner with engineering teams and manufacturers to resolve systemic issues affecting AI training stability, GPU availability, and customer SLAs.

Leads photonic integrated circuit test software architecture, infrastructure improvements, test-station automation, and hardware-control software development. Oversees software migration across LabVIEW, Python, MATLAB, C#, and C++, while leading a small software team and mentoring engineers. The role supports electrical and optical testing of InP-based transceiver PICs at wafer, die, and subassembly levels, including vision systems, probe positioning, calibration, and test software revision control.

Build and own mobile SDKs for identity and fraud prevention products, focusing on Android development, device-level signal collection, authentication, and emerging agentic identity use cases. Partner with product and engineering leaders on architecture and roadmap decisions, improve observability and production resilience, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives across Twilio and Stytch.

Design and implement scalable backup software for endpoints, servers, and cloud applications. Develop Java and Kotlin services, optimize databases and queries, debug production systems, and resolve distributed-system performance issues. Contribute code, reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, and cross-team reliability initiatives. Mentor engineers and help deliver resilient products operating at large scale.

Develop and architect scalable Java software for NinjaOne’s endpoint management platform. The role involves building high-availability services, leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, improving quality practices, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, and addressing scalability, performance, and technical debt challenges.

Build and maintain developer workflows, CI/CD and deployment automation, containerized development environments, SDK packaging and release pipelines, AI performance dashboards, and productivity tools. Design scalable software and developer tools for novel hardware platforms, collaborate with hardware and ML teams, manage C++ codebases, establish engineering standards, and optimize software delivery and production readiness.

Performs guidance, navigation, and control engineering for unmanned aerial vehicles, including nonlinear 6DOF simulation, MATLAB analysis, embedded flight-control software design and testing, flight-test support, parameter identification, and mission analysis. Develops advanced G&C methods and supports proposals and new projects. The role requires collaboration across disciplines and eligibility for Secret and Special Access Program clearances.

Design and operate large-scale, AI-native cloud infrastructure (especially Kubernetes/AKS). Improve service quality, automate incident prevention/remediation, accelerate engineering productivity, and integrate AI tools into development workflows.

Designs and develops software to automate onboarding, validation, management, tracking, and lifecycle operations for new hardware deployed in Microsoft datacenters. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system design, coding, debugging, optimization, reliability engineering, monitoring, on-call support, and incident response. The role collaborates with Azure teams and stakeholders while improving scalability, security, availability, observability, and performance across cloud and distributed systems.

Build and maintain large-scale automation and control systems for Azure Kubernetes Service. Responsibilities include improving Kubernetes cluster performance and reliability, automating cluster lifecycle operations, developing safety and observability tools, supporting secure infrastructure changes, participating in production operations and on-call rotations, and mentoring engineers through design reviews and continuous improvement.

Develop and evolve Azure capacity infrastructure, platform capabilities, and service stacks at scale. Provide technical leadership in requirements, architecture, design, coding, release planning, and operational reliability. Mentor engineers, manage cross-product dependencies, serve as a designated responsible individual, participate in on-call support, and improve system availability, observability, performance, and efficiency.

Own the networking architecture and roadmap for AKS Flex and Unbounded, enabling secure, reliable, high-performance Kubernetes connectivity across sites, clouds, edge environments, and on-premises infrastructure. Design overlay and underlay networks, routing, encrypted tunnels, eBPF dataplanes, and distributed systems for high-latency and partitioned environments. Integrate InfiniBand and RDMA for AI workloads, lead cross-team architecture efforts, improve global fleet performance and reliability, and participate in production operations and on-call rotations.

Lead the Client Platform organization responsible for container image builds, software supply chain security, and over-the-air updates across customer environments. Manage engineering managers and approximately 10 engineers, establish engineering culture, drive architecture decisions, operate secure CI/CD pipelines, and own distributed update systems. Partner with security research, product management, and customer success to deliver the client-side roadmap.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for AI workloads. Design secure, reliable, scalable distributed systems; coordinate engineering teams; define testing and deployment strategies; improve observability and operational readiness; investigate production issues; and mentor engineers while advancing engineering practices.

Lead architecture and development for AKS Flex, scaling etcd and Kubernetes control planes for distributed node fleets. Design remote-node provisioning, lifecycle automation, Kubernetes-native APIs, secure bootstrap, upgrades, and reliability systems across Azure, on-premises, edge, and other clouds. Drive performance testing, production operations, open-source collaboration, technical strategy, cross-team alignment, and mentorship while solving distributed-systems, storage, security, and scalability challenges.

Design, implement, optimize, and operate highly available distributed data streaming platforms across FedRAMP environments. Develop concurrent, low-latency software using C, C++, Go, or Java; support full-stack data delivery; troubleshoot complex network and distributed-system issues; and provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentoring.