Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs

Architect and guide development of GM’s cloud-native virtual development platform for distributed simulation, vECUs, FMUs, SIL/MIL workloads, and AI-enabled workflows. Responsibilities include designing orchestration, APIs, data pipelines, scalable compute, CI/CD integration, security, observability, and reliability, while mentoring developers and influencing technical direction. The role requires expertise in backend and distributed systems, virtualization, cloud architecture, Kubernetes, AI/ML integration, data engineering, and ontology-based system design.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Lead the technical direction and hands-on development of NetBox Delivery, including Kubernetes operators, controllers, APIs, release tooling, observability, and deployment infrastructure. Improve NetBox reliability and performance, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-team architecture and release initiatives, and serve as a technical escalation point during incidents.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Lead complex card-acquiring projects from design through production, building reliable payment systems, tooling, testing frameworks, and network integrations. Work hands-on with ISO messages, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, interchange, and tokenization. Set technical direction, mentor engineers, improve reliability, participate in on-call operations, and establish standards adopted across teams. The role requires deep acquiring expertise and experience operating large-scale financial systems.

Lead complex card payments acquiring projects from design through production, building and operating highly reliable systems. Apply deep ISO 8583 and card-network expertise to routing, authorization, capture, clearing, settlement, reconciliation, and processing costs. Write production code, develop certification tooling, debug payment messages, establish reusable standards, mentor engineers, use AI coding agents responsibly, and participate in on-call support for critical financial systems.

Lead technically complex card payments projects from design through production while writing and operating highly reliable financial systems. Analyze ISO 8583 messages, network mandates, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, and processing costs. Build production code, testing and certification tooling, shared frameworks, and operational capabilities. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, participate in design reviews and incident response, and establish safe patterns for AI-assisted engineering on critical payment systems.

Lead technically complex card-acquiring payment projects from design through production. Build and operate highly reliable payment systems, integrations, testing and certification tooling, and shared engineering frameworks. Analyze ISO messages, network mandates, routing, authorization, clearing, settlement, and processing costs. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, participate in on-call operations, and establish safe AI-assisted engineering practices for critical financial systems.

Build scalable AI and machine learning platform capabilities across model development, deployment, monitoring, cataloging, tagging, and LLM hosting. Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to integrate platforms such as AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Develop secure APIs and distributed backend systems, optimize cloud and containerized services, and establish robust testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the architecture and implementation of Hex’s backend compute platform, improving execution speed, parallelism, caching, observability, and data warehouse integration. Design and build compute components, author technical proposals, roadmap long-term initiatives, collaborate across engineering and product, and mentor engineers. The role remains hands-on while addressing complex computation, performance, database, storage, and systems architecture challenges at scale.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

Designs and operates highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure across large-scale distributed systems. Responsibilities include Kubernetes and database reliability, automated monitoring and alerting, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation, security and compliance enforcement, incident response, performance optimization, documentation, and on-call support. The role collaborates across engineering, security, product, and operations teams in regulated environments.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.