Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Develop scalable backend services, APIs, event-driven workflows, metadata pipelines, configuration tools, deployment controls, and observability for vehicle data collection across fleets. The role owns production systems, improves data quality and campaign monitoring, leads cross-team technical initiatives, and contributes through architecture reviews, testing, code reviews, mentorship, and production support. Collaboration spans AI research, data engineering, vehicle engineering, autonomy, privacy, product, and operations teams.

Develop, secure, deploy, and sustain a federal government website as a full-stack developer. Build responsive React frontends and Node.js/.NET/Java backends, design and manage SQL Server databases, implement RESTful APIs, CI/CD pipelines, Azure infrastructure, and security best practices. Troubleshoot issues, write automated tests, and collaborate with designers and stakeholders to meet accessibility and performance standards.

Build and own a browser-based React and three.js rendering layer for 3D mission data, including spacecraft, orbits, sensor volumes, telemetry, and common operating picture controls. Develop polished front-end interactions, optimize real-time rendering performance, manage 3D scenes, shaders, lighting, cameras, and level of detail, and rapidly prototype visual concepts. Collaborate with data and platform engineers while contributing to data visualization and standard front-end development.

Develop and deploy autonomy software for unmanned surface, underwater, and aerial vehicles in maritime missions. Responsibilities include motion planning, localization and tracking, safety assurance, COLREGS adherence, multi-agent coordination, distributed optimization, rigorous software testing, platform integration, deployment support, mission-log analysis, and autonomy R&D. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, customer and demonstration support, roadmap development, and mentoring junior engineers. Travel is typically approximately 25% annually.

Leads the design, development, and operation of scalable backend systems using Golang, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. Defines architecture and technical standards, drives large-scale technical initiatives, ensures reliability and performance, partners cross-functionally, and mentors engineers. The role also involves building distributed microservices, managing cloud-native deployments, and delivering production systems end to end. Experience with video workflows, video analytics, or LLM-powered applications is preferred.

Lead and manage software engineering teams: run agile processes, design and ship secure scalable APIs and services, guide architecture, manage technical debt, recruit and mentor engineers, and align work with company objectives.

The Full Stack Software Engineer develops user-facing features using React and Node, manages data workflows, and collaborates with design and product teams. Responsibilities include shipping product slices and enhancing performance for state government data platforms.

Lead the Consumer Core full-stack team building core functionality across Kotlin Multiplatform front-end and Python/Java back-end. Drive architecture, security, reliability, cost-efficiency, tooling, AI adoption, and cross-functional alignment. Coach engineers, set domain boundaries, represent the team in planning, and scale systems and processes to support Consumer and Partnerships applications.

Build and maintain Cloudflare’s globally distributed Quicksilver key-value store using Go and C. Develop features, improve CPU and memory performance, enhance monitoring and operational tooling, and debug complex, hard-to-reproduce issues across the software stack. Responsibilities include code reviews, testing, deployments, rollbacks, operations, alerting, and on-call support for a system operating across tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of data centers.

Work on end-to-end customer projects as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer intern: design and implement data-driven solutions, build web apps, wrangle large-scale data, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and travel to client sites. Interns own real-world deliverables and operate with autonomy and mentorship in fast-moving environments.