Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Design, develop, deploy, and support secure, scalable mobile applications and cloud-native solutions. Build React Native applications, integrate REST APIs, improve performance and reliability, and apply mobile security best practices. Drive automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, incident management, observability, and cloud operations using AI-enabled tools and Infrastructure as Code. Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors, influence technical decisions, and continuously improve engineering practices and platform capabilities.

Develop highly available, scalable cloud-based integration services for Axon’s real-time operations platform. Drive cross-team technical architecture, integration frameworks, partner onboarding, technical roadmaps, and reusable platform components. Collaborate with engineering, product, design, professional services, and external partners; lead architecture reviews, mentor engineers, improve engineering processes, and leverage AI to enhance customer experiences.

Build API-first backend services for workflow orchestration, data ingestion, evaluation, and results management, along with analyst-facing web consoles. Implement identity federation, authentication, authorization, relational data models, automated testing, and CI pipelines. Create API documentation, SDK examples, reference implementations, notebooks, and integration resources. Collaborate with security, infrastructure, platform, and ML engineers while supporting external partners and Government users integrating with published interfaces.

Deploys and operationalizes AI security platforms for public sector customers across cloud, hybrid, on-premises, edge, and air-gapped environments. Builds integrations, prototypes, demos, workflows, and deployment architectures; troubleshoots complex implementations; collaborates with customer, engineering, product, security, and mission teams; and translates field feedback into product improvements and implementation strategies.

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.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals, indexing, query engine extensions, and storage-layer features to support large-scale document workloads on Azure. Profile distributed systems, tune performance, collaborate with open-source communities, conduct design/code reviews, and drive cross-team alignment for mission-critical database features.

Designs and implements protocols and features for highly scalable distributed block storage, focusing on durability, availability, performance, reliability, and observability. Responsibilities include coding, optimization, debugging, design documentation, stakeholder collaboration, incident response, on-call operations, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in C or C++, distributed systems, cloud backend development, multithreaded programming, and large-scale software delivery.

Develop and administer ServiceNow solutions, including Nuvolo facilities, asset, maintenance, and workplace applications. Build custom applications, workflows, forms, dashboards, reports, integrations, and service catalogs. Configure ITSM, CMDB, and Asset Management modules; perform upgrades and troubleshooting; and support platform enhancements. Collaborate with stakeholders and technical teams to gather requirements, document solutions, and deliver secure, governed enterprise capabilities using REST and SOAP integrations.

Lead technical strategy for a 50–150+ engineer organization, establish architecture and engineering standards, drive delivery, and partner with executives on technology investments. Embed production-grade generative AI, LLMs, agentic workflows, and ML automation into engineering. Own AI platforms, distributed systems, cloud-native backend architecture, modernization initiatives, microservices migrations, and engineering transformation while ensuring scalable, reliable outcomes.

Leads a forward-deployed engineering team while writing production code, configuring and troubleshooting software onsite with customers, gathering feedback, delivering technical demonstrations, and improving system reliability and performance. Translates customer needs into product requirements and shipped features, automates manual processes, and contributes to company strategy, culture, and product direction. Requires frequent customer engagement, technical communication, autonomous problem-solving, and travel to domestic and overseas locations.

Maintain, optimize, and build Power Platform solutions and SharePoint integrations (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI). Manage environments, data gateways, permissions, governance, and security. Develop automation, gather requirements from stakeholders, provide user support/training, and work with IT security to ensure information assurance and continuous improvement in a high-security environment.

Lead the architecture, development, maintenance, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting of secure, accessible Drupal websites. Mentor engineers, collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams, support Agile delivery, manage releases, and improve application performance, scalability, and user experience.