Top Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

Lead the architecture and technical strategy for Affirm’s high-volume observability platform. Design telemetry pipelines and sampling strategies, improve reliability and cost efficiency, integrate observability into AI-assisted development, and drive platform adoption across engineering teams. Remain hands-on while mentoring six engineers, leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing engineering standards, and overseeing monitoring, alerting, on-call operations, and system availability.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop and maintain scalable Python software, integrations, and web applications. Collaborate with QA, IT operations, analysts, and stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment. Design technical solutions, translate workflows into requirements, participate in code reviews and Scrum ceremonies, optimize relational and non-relational database queries, troubleshoot production issues, and improve application performance and security.

Owns company-critical, long-term technical problems across multiple teams and organizations. Defines technical strategy, architectures, roadmaps, and engineering standards for large-scale customer-facing systems. Remains hands-on in software development while driving AI adoption in products and engineering workflows. Partners with senior product, engineering, and executive leaders to resolve complex problems, improve reliability and performance, and shape Dropbox’s technical direction.

Build and maintain Vue.js interfaces for Openly’s insurance platform, supporting agents and internal users. Responsibilities include implementing UX initiatives, developing administration interfaces, integrating REST and GraphQL APIs, simplifying technical designs, contributing to architectural decisions, testing applications, identifying technical risks, and collaborating across product and engineering teams.

Build and operate GitLab’s Rust-based Knowledge Graph backend supporting SDLC and code indexing, graph queries, MCP endpoints, AI agents, and analytics. Integrate with Rails, ClickHouse, NATS JetStream, and Data Insights systems. Improve reliability, observability, scalability, and operational readiness through testing, metrics, runbooks, alerts, and on-call participation. Collaborate asynchronously across product, data, infrastructure, security, and AI teams while contributing to system design and occasional Ruby or frontend work.

Build and operate Dragos’s web application, GraphQL and gRPC APIs, and client SDKs. Develop React and TypeScript features, design versioned API contracts, maintain Python, TypeScript, and Go SDKs, and collaborate with Product, Design, and backend engineering. Improve performance, accessibility, observability, security, testing, and code quality while supporting security data at scale.

Lead the design, development, and operation of integrations and API products. Establish standards for API contracts, authentication, authorization, versioning, reliability, observability, documentation, and developer experience. Drive cross-team system architecture, production readiness, scalability, security, and resilience while mentoring engineers and aligning technical decisions with product and business goals.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Contract Salesforce Technical Architect responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and reviewing secure, scalable Apex-based solutions. The role includes Salesforce integrations, Lightning components, code reviews, technical design, implementation consultant support, client communication, documentation, and AI-assisted development. Candidates must ramp quickly, support active professional services engagements, and complete a structured handoff at the end of the contract.