Software Engineer Jobs in San Jose, CA

Design, build, deploy, and scale distributed cloud systems for NVIDIA GeForce NOW. Develop backend services and microservices, optimize reliability and performance, drive automation, monitoring, and infrastructure improvements, and build scalable test harnesses. Influence architecture and technology choices while collaborating across teams, mentoring engineers, and promoting technical excellence and operational ownership.

Design, develop, and deploy scalable cloud-native components and microservices for Cisco’s security platform. Collaborate with product and engineering teams on requirements, planning, system design, integrations, prototypes, and performance validation. Build event-driven services, manage infrastructure, contribute to resilient production systems, and mentor peers and interns. The role uses Go, Terraform, AWS serverless and container services, SQL and NoSQL databases, Kafka-based messaging, and AI/ML development tools.

Build scalable test automation infrastructure and evaluation frameworks for AI-agentic security operations systems. Develop benchmarking protocols, proof-of-concepts, validation techniques, behavioral regression suites, contract tests, audit log validation, tenant isolation probes, and LLM-as-judge workflows. Collaborate on code and design reviews, security compliance, performance testing, and quality ecosystem improvements using Python, Go, AI/ML tooling, and modern testing frameworks.

Develop embedded real-time systems software for autonomous vehicle safety services. Optimize solutions for performance and compliance while collaborating with multifaceted teams to integrate technologies into NVIDIA's self-driving platform.

This role involves developing high-performance software for autonomous vehicles, focusing on sensor drivers, data processing, and vehicle interface integration, while adhering to quality standards.

Lead the technical design and delivery of banking features at Cash App, collaborating across teams, driving architecture improvements, and mentoring engineers.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop and execute technical strategies for Cash App Banking, lead architectural decisions, and mentor engineers, focusing on innovative financial solutions.

Leads software engineering projects and developers building full-stack, distributed microservices and cloud-based endpoint security solutions. Collaborates with product managers, applies modern technologies including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and multiple programming languages, and mentors engineering teams while driving innovation and regulatory-focused solutions.

Develops and debugs software enhancements and subsystems for systems software, including operating systems, networking, databases, utilities, and Internet tools. Executes test plans, identifies and resolves issues, and collaborates with internal and outsourced development partners. Contributes to project teams delivering reliable, cost-effective solutions for low- to moderately-complex products while applying foundational software design, coding, testing, and debugging knowledge.

Design and develop low-level kernel drivers and embedded software for NVIDIA data center GPUs. Responsibilities include cross-platform Linux and Windows support, hardware initialization, device management, reset capabilities, telemetry, memory management, clock, thermal and power management, and performance optimization. The role collaborates with software, hardware, architecture, and OEM teams to support current products and develop next-generation GPU features.

Design and develop multithreaded embedded C/C++ software for Linux, RTOS, and bare-metal platforms supporting satellite RF, antenna, and optical systems. Develop device drivers and control, management, and data-plane functions; integrate software with hardware; debug using telemetry and hardware tools; and contribute to documentation, reviews, testing automation, CI/CD, and TDD. Lead development efforts, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver reliable, high-performance space communications software.

Design, build, and modernize full‑stack web applications and microservices for a real‑time event-driven data and visualization platform. Develop and optimize streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Flink, Spark), integrate observability, caching (Redis), and AI agents, and collaborate with hardware verification teams for scalable, low-latency solutions.

Own and develop Arena’s public web surfaces, including the blog, marketing pages, and leaderboard UI. Build with Next.js, React, TypeScript, Sanity CMS, and the company design system. Improve performance, accessibility, SEO, structured data, internationalization, and data visualization. Create CMS models and publishing tools that enable marketing teams to ship independently while collaborating closely with designers, marketers, and engineers.

Provides senior technical leadership for enterprise identity and access management. Designs authentication, authorization, federation, lifecycle management, and identity verification capabilities using modern standards such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM, FIDO2, and WebAuthn. Establishes IAM architecture and engineering standards, reviews designs and code, guides Zero Trust and adaptive authorization adoption, influences cross-team roadmaps, and mentors engineers across large-scale distributed platforms.

Lead architecture and development of reliable, scalable distributed storage services for AI/ML. Build and maintain Go applications, containers, bindings, and CLI tools deployed on Kubernetes. Enhance availability, automate deployment and monitoring, and collaborate with research, product, engineering, and customers. Requires ownership of enterprise software throughout its lifecycle, with experience in distributed systems, cloud services, storage interfaces, and large-scale deployments.

The role involves developing and optimizing system software for autonomous driving platforms, integrating sensors, and collaborating across teams.

Develop and integrate system-level software for NVIDIA’s autonomous driving DRIVE OS platform. Responsibilities include designing vehicle interface abstractions, networking, data flow, synchronization, software architectures, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. The role debugs issues across software, operating systems, middleware, networking, hardware interfaces, and embedded platforms, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to test and deliver robust capabilities.

Develop and support customer payload software integrations for spacecraft missions. Guide external partners through SDKs, interfaces, simulations, testing, commanding, telemetry, payload management, fault recovery, and data downlink. Lead technical exchanges, design reviews, and integration campaigns while serving as the software point of contact. Maintain developer documentation and sample applications, collaborate with flight and systems engineering, and track integration metrics, OKRs, roadmaps, and delivery risks.

The Senior Embedded Security Engineer will enhance the security of the flight software for space vehicles, ensuring high standards for safety and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Design and build scalable AI platform capabilities to enable multi-step GenAI workflows, model execution, and integrations. Implement backend services, execution infrastructure, APIs, and observability to support production GenAI experiences across sales and product teams. Collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and product partners to turn AI use cases into reliable, extensible platform features.

Design, implement, and test distributed block and file storage services in C across Linux kernel, userspace, host, and DPU environments. Analyze production issues, resolve complex kernel and systems bugs, develop scalable storage solutions, and collaborate with networking teams, architects, and customers. The role involves defining software architecture for highly performant, scalable storage platforms and requires deep expertise in Linux, storage protocols, distributed systems, and operating-system internals.

Manage build systems, CI/CD pipelines, software installers, and cloud environments for digital surgery and robotics software. Develop and support Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines, improve build and infrastructure support, create provisioning and deployment strategies, maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, and collaborate with engineering teams to meet software development requirements.

Build software for renewable energy campuses, including high-fidelity simulations, geospatial data pipelines, automated site and electrical design, and energy management systems. Develop real-time controls, SCADA and telemetry integrations, testing infrastructure, and safety systems for islanded solar and storage facilities. Collaborate with power, civil, and external engineering experts to convert domain knowledge into reliable software and accelerate utility-scale site design and deployment.

Design and implement distributed data services and high-volume ETL pipelines for timeseries and telemetry data supporting flight test programs. Manage Kubernetes-native autoscaling services, build threshold-based alerting pipelines, and collaborate with avionics engineers and stakeholders to identify critical data features. Evaluate data ingestion, storage, and retrieval technologies to improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and analytical capabilities.

Build the agent evaluation platform for multi-step enterprise AI agents. Responsibilities include orchestrating high-concurrency evaluations, developing OpenTelemetry-based tracing, creating stateful simulations of enterprise systems, managing datasets and reports, implementing validators and scoring, and establishing reliability, reproducibility, and SLOs. The role also develops calibrated evaluation signals that can optimize and train agent behavior.