Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

The Senior Software Developer will collaborate with a remote team to enhance the Neuron platform, focusing on software development tasks including distributed system design and maintenance of features.

Own and set technical direction for the Everand backend, building scalable, reliable systems for discoverability, personalization, and core consumption journeys. Drive architecture, platform health (CI/CD, staging, DBs, queues, cost, observability), mentor engineers, lead cross-team planning, modernize legacy systems, and partner with product, design, analytics, web/mobile, and ML to support experimentation and telemetry-driven decisions.

Lead design, development, testing, and maintenance of complex software applications in a cross-functional team. Act as technical lead, troubleshoot high-complexity issues, mentor junior engineers, ensure application quality, collaborate with stakeholders, and follow design control and Agile practices. Onsite in San Diego.

The Senior API Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native REST APIs using Python on AWS, focusing on security, performance, and infrastructure management with Terraform and CI/CD practices.

Lead design and delivery of large, ambiguous features across frontend, backend, and platform domains. Define and evolve microservice and micro-frontend architectures, improve Kubernetes infrastructure and reliability, raise automated testing and observability standards, mentor engineers, drive technical alignment, and support production incident response and root-cause analysis.

Perform datacenter hardware/software integration and documentation, build and configure rack-based systems, install cabling and IT hardware (switches, KVM/PCoIP), configure OSes (Windows, Solaris, VMware/ESXi), track inventory/ILS, support offsite integration (~20–25% travel), implement engineering changes, and collaborate with engineers and technicians in a secure on-site facility.

Lead software engineering efforts in developing healthcare software, focusing on microservices, code enhancement, and team collaboration while mentoring others.

Lead a systems infrastructure engineering team using Agile processes. Administer and troubleshoot RHEL/CentOS and Windows servers/workstations, VMware vSphere, automate tasks with PowerShell/Python/Ansible, enforce cybersecurity compliance (SCAP/STIG/Nessus), and maintain configuration management with Teamcenter Enterprise.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop healthcare software, ensuring high quality through Agile collaboration and utilizing various technologies while mentoring team members.

Design, develop, integrate, and test safety-critical embedded real-time software for flight/mission systems. Develop automated tests, analyze software requirements, debug hardware/software integration issues, produce technical documentation, and support lab-based Agile development and system-level qualification activities.

Design and implement multi-agent optimization and planning algorithms for real-time decision-making and human-machine teaming. Develop temporal logic and constraint-satisfaction frameworks, model sequential decision processes under uncertainty, and build efficient, human-interpretable computational systems. Profile, evaluate, and optimize algorithm performance in containerized Linux environments, and collaborate on systems used across air, land, sea, and space domains with defense-focused deployment requirements.

Designs and implements enterprise Java (JEE) solutions and microservices in an Agile environment. Collaborates with systems, cloud, DevSecOps, and test teams across the SDLC to prototype, build, test, and release GUI and backend services. Requires Top Secret clearance and SAP/PAR access, on-site work in San Diego or El Segundo, and periodic travel.

Lead adaptation of mobile control station software to a cloud (IL-5) environment. Build IaC, containerize applications, implement CI/CD and security, collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams, and support integration and system testing in an Agile environment.

The Senior Software Engineer will architect and develop full stack solutions for PlayStation features, focusing on high-quality front-end applications and backend services while collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring others.

Design, develop, and modernize desktop and web software tools using .NET, databases, and front-end frameworks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, create technical designs and project plans, implement secure performant solutions, and mentor team members while supporting digital transformation and legacy tool upgrades.

Drive validation, automation, and performance engineering for distributed services. Build end-to-end and performance test frameworks, integrate validation into CI/CD, model production traffic, define SLAs/SLOs and capacity, reduce flaky tests, and improve reliability and observability using telemetry and incident learnings.

Lead on-site software integration and test for complex systems: install, integrate, troubleshoot software/hardware across networks; develop and execute installation, integration, and acceptance tests; produce technical documentation and problem reports; collaborate with developers, systems, and hardware engineers; drive automation and CI/CD adoption; support operational events under program security requirements.

Join ASR as a Senior Software Engineer to maintain and develop swarming algorithms, enhance software architecture, and ensure operational reliability across our robotics systems. Responsibilities include extending the C++ code base and developing Python web services, requiring strong problem-solving skills in complex environments.

Design and develop cyber secure embedded software solutions for satellite avionics. Collaborate with systems and hardware teams, lead development efforts, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, implement, and scale event-driven, distributed backend systems in Python on AWS to process and enrich large-scale document and media datasets. Lead technical projects, mentor engineers, integrate ML/LLM components, optimize performance, maintain observability, and collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Product to deliver reliable high-throughput content processing services.

Lead the development and delivery of scalable software products, ensuring quality and performance while mentoring software engineers and exploring new technologies.

Design, develop, deploy, and support LabVIEW/TestStand-based production test systems. Translate requirements into system designs, create test plans and documentation, interface with users/customers, present technical work, and support multiple programs. Must hold active US Secret clearance.

Build and maintain backend and infrastructure software for ground navigation: control plane, workflow orchestration, databases, product repositories, ingestion pipelines, observability, CI/CD, and operator tools. Integrate orbit determination, telemetry, reference data, and validation into repeatable per-spacecraft workflows and collaborate with astrodynamics, flight software, mission operations, and systems teams to operationalize navigation products.

Develop and maintain C++ and Python constellation-level simulation and data-processing infrastructure that models spacecraft motion, link availability, routing, timing, coverage, and network behavior. Build services to generate navigation-derived products, scenario tooling, visualization, validation tests, and scalable simulation pipelines to support engineering trades, operational rehearsals, anomaly investigation, and stakeholder-facing analysis.

Design and implement real-time software for wireless systems, including coding, testing, and verifying system features. Collaborate in software processes and validation of wireless technology concepts.