Senior Software Developer Jobs in North Carolina
Senior Software Developer jobs in North Carolina are in strong and consistent demand, concentrated in financial technology, cloud infrastructure, enterprise software, and life sciences technology, with openings at every level from mid-level engineer through principal and staff engineer. The largest hiring metros are Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and the Research Triangle, where established employers such as IBM, Bank of America, and Red Hat maintain significant engineering presences. The most sought-after specialties are cloud-native development, full-stack engineering, and DevSecOps. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. This role is based out of Raleigh, NC.
We are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to support the maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement of UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) products throughout their lifecycle. This role will focus on embedded software support, communication protocol implementation and maintenance, troubleshooting, and sustaining engineering activities for commercial and industrial UPS systems.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting fielded products, investigating and resolving complex system issues, implementing software enhancements, and ensuring the long-term reliability, maintainability, and performance of UPS platforms.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $94000 - $138000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
- Develop, maintain, test, and support embedded software for UPS products.
- Troubleshoot software, communication, and system-level issues identified in manufacturing, testing, and field deployments.
- Investigate and resolve customer-reported and field-observed software issues.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative actions for product issues.
- Support software releases, patches, and firmware updates for released products.
- Maintain and enhance communication interfaces between UPS controllers, network management devices, and external systems.
- Collaborate with controls, systems, hardware, quality, manufacturing, and service engineering teams to resolve product issues.
- Participate in software architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure maintainability of existing platforms.
- Develop software requirements, design documentation, test procedures, and validation reports.
- Support laboratory testing, validation, and product qualification activities involving UPS systems and power electronic equipment.
- Analyze product performance data and field feedback to drive continuous product improvements.
- Contribute to cybersecurity, reliability, obsolescence management, and product lifecycle maintenance initiatives.
- Provide technical support to manufacturing, field service, and customer support organizations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Minimum 3 years of industry experience developing or supporting embedded software for industrial, power electronics, or UPS products.
- Experience developing embedded software in C/C++.
- Experience troubleshooting and supporting released embedded products.
- Experience performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary product development environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience with UPS, power conversion, power electronics, or electrical power system products.
- Experience integrating and troubleshooting communication protocols in embedded systems.
- Experience with CAN, CANopen, RS-485, Ethernet, and related industrial communication protocols.
- Experience with real-time embedded operating systems.
- Knowledge of power electronics, inverter systems, converters, and energy management systems.
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and model-based development.
- Experience supporting products through the full product lifecycle, including manufacturing and field support.
- Familiarity with UL, IEC, and industry standards applicable to UPS systems.
- Experience with Software Configuration Management and Git-based development workflows.
- Experience with LLM coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar software development productivity tools.
- Experience with Hardware in the Loop systems such as OPAL RT or Typhoon
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. #LI-RC2
Eaton’s ES AMER ESS division is currently seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. This role is based out of Raleigh, NC.
We are seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to support the maintenance, reliability, and continuous improvement of UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) products throughout their lifecycle. This role will focus on embedded software support, communication protocol implementation and maintenance, troubleshooting, and sustaining engineering activities for commercial and industrial UPS systems.
The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting fielded products, investigating and resolving complex system issues, implementing software enhancements, and ensuring the long-term reliability, maintainability, and performance of UPS platforms.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $94000 - $138000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What you’ll do:
- Develop, maintain, test, and support embedded software for UPS products.
- Troubleshoot software, communication, and system-level issues identified in manufacturing, testing, and field deployments.
- Investigate and resolve customer-reported and field-observed software issues.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventative actions for product issues.
- Support software releases, patches, and firmware updates for released products.
- Maintain and enhance communication interfaces between UPS controllers, network management devices, and external systems.
- Collaborate with controls, systems, hardware, quality, manufacturing, and service engineering teams to resolve product issues.
- Participate in software architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews to ensure maintainability of existing platforms.
- Develop software requirements, design documentation, test procedures, and validation reports.
- Support laboratory testing, validation, and product qualification activities involving UPS systems and power electronic equipment.
- Analyze product performance data and field feedback to drive continuous product improvements.
- Contribute to cybersecurity, reliability, obsolescence management, and product lifecycle maintenance initiatives.
- Provide technical support to manufacturing, field service, and customer support organizations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related engineering discipline from an accredited institution.
- Minimum 3 years of industry experience developing or supporting embedded software for industrial, power electronics, or UPS products.
- Experience developing embedded software in C/C++.
- Experience troubleshooting and supporting released embedded products.
- Experience performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary product development environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience with UPS, power conversion, power electronics, or electrical power system products.
- Experience integrating and troubleshooting communication protocols in embedded systems.
- Experience with CAN, CANopen, RS-485, Ethernet, and related industrial communication protocols.
- Experience with real-time embedded operating systems.
- Knowledge of power electronics, inverter systems, converters, and energy management systems.
- Experience with MATLAB/Simulink and model-based development.
- Experience supporting products through the full product lifecycle, including manufacturing and field support.
- Familiarity with UL, IEC, and industry standards applicable to UPS systems.
- Experience with Software Configuration Management and Git-based development workflows.
- Experience with LLM coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar software development productivity tools.
- Experience with Hardware in the Loop systems such as OPAL RT or Typhoon
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements. #LI-RC2
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What North Carolina Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior software developer jobs across North Carolina.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Five or more years of professional software development experience in production environments
- Proficiency in at least one primary language such as Java, Python, or TypeScript
- Demonstrated experience designing and deploying cloud-based systems on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and owning technical decisions
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization tools such as Docker, and Agile workflows
Senior Software Developer Jobs in North Carolina: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a senior software developer in North Carolina?
Software development is not state-licensed in North Carolina, so the path is credential- and experience-driven rather than exam-based. Most employers in the Research Triangle and Charlotte require a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, several years of hands-on engineering experience, and a portfolio demonstrating ownership of complex systems. Certifications from AWS, Google Cloud, or similar platforms carry real weight with North Carolina employers in fintech and life sciences.
How much do senior software developers make in North Carolina?
Senior software developers in North Carolina earn a median of about $134,710 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $83,840 for the lowest 10% to over $179,310 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire senior software developers in North Carolina?
Employers hiring senior software developers in North Carolina right now include VAST Data, SAS, and IXL Learning, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. North Carolina's Research Triangle concentration of technology companies, financial institutions headquartered in Charlotte, and life sciences firms in the Durham-Chapel Hill corridor means demand stays broad across industries year-round.
Which North Carolina cities have the most senior software developer jobs?
The cities with the most senior software developer openings in North Carolina are Raleigh, Charlotte, and Durham. Raleigh-Durham leads because of the Research Triangle's dense cluster of technology companies, university spinouts, and major corporate campuses, while Charlotte draws significant volume from its large financial services and fintech sector, and smaller metros appear on the list wherever large healthcare or government contractors have engineering hubs.
Are there remote senior software developer jobs in North Carolina?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 58% of senior software developer openings tied to North Carolina are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how broadly this role has been adopted as desk-based and tool-independent work. The roles most consistently offered fully remote are back-end and cloud infrastructure positions, while roles requiring close collaboration with hardware teams or regulated financial systems tend to keep a hybrid or on-site requirement.
How can I get hired as a senior software developer in North Carolina with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is landing a junior or associate software engineer role and building toward seniority through demonstrated ownership of projects. North Carolina employers such as IBM in Research Triangle Park and Bank of America in Charlotte run structured new-graduate and associate engineering programs that recruit directly from North Carolina State University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Duke. Strong candidates pair a degree or bootcamp certificate with a GitHub portfolio and pursue AWS or Google Cloud associate-level certifications to stand out at the application stage.
Where can I find and apply to senior software developer jobs in North Carolina?
You can find and apply to senior software developer jobs in North Carolina on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers actively hiring in the state. Find roles that fit your experience and specialty and apply directly from each listing.
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