Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable systems, lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve existing platforms using PHP, Node.JS, and AWS.

Design and build scalable backend components and indexing pipelines for semantic and hybrid retrieval, build retrieval orchestration and knowledge-graph services, improve retrieval quality via evaluation and observability, design APIs, and optimize latency, throughput, cost, reliability, and security for large-scale AI inference and retrieval workloads.

Technical lead for third‑party AI tool connectivity and custom MCP servers. Design secure AI integration architecture, build and operate connectors, lead incident response, automate lifecycle and monitoring, integrate with identity and security systems, mentor engineers, and drive cross‑functional onboarding and rollout of AI integration standards.

Lead architecture and implementation of new school safety products from concept through production. Design scalable, secure, resilient distributed systems and integration-heavy platforms involving APIs, identity systems, hardware, and external data sources. Drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with Product, Design, and engineering leaders to deliver reliable 0-to-1 products for schools.

Design and develop scalable React front-end applications, reusable UI components, and accessible design-system foundations. Collaborate with product, UX, and backend teams on user-focused features and API integration. Define front-end architecture standards, optimize performance, maintain build and CI/CD pipelines, ensure code quality through testing and reviews, and mentor engineers. The role also supports responsive design, documentation, troubleshooting, and scalable state management and data-fetching practices.

Provides cross-team technical leadership by architecting scalable systems, leading design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, shipping production code, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and translating business priorities into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on full-stack software development, AI-paired delivery, strong communication, and influence without formal authority.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement scalable data systems, collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure data integrity.

Build AI agent discovery across Azure, endpoints, and future AWS and Google Cloud environments. Assess agent configurations, access, and security risks, then integrate findings with Delinea’s identity and attribution platform for governance. Extend existing discovery services, collaborate with platform teams, and solve complex backend engineering problems using cloud APIs and modern backend languages.

Build and own full-stack MarTech services, scalable APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, and customer-facing web experiences. Develop with Java, Spring Boot, TypeScript, React, and AWS while integrating advertising, analytics, messaging, and conversion platforms. Partner cross-functionally with marketing, product, data, design, and engineering teams to launch measurable growth features and experiments. The role also involves mentoring engineers, improving technical standards, and supporting high-scale acquisition and retention systems.

Leads cross-team software delivery and technical direction across Alkami’s digital banking platform. Designs scalable architectures, secure APIs, microservices, integrations, and data contracts; writes and reviews production code; improves reliability, performance, observability, testing, and CI/CD; manages technical dependencies and tradeoffs; mentors engineers; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; and partners with product, security, architecture, data, and site reliability teams.

Build and maintain full-stack software products across frontend, backend, data, and AI layers. Own product architecture, deployment, observability, reliability, and maintenance; establish unified data models, secure access controls, AI guardrails, and engineering standards. Collaborate directly with non-engineering users to create self-service workflows and translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions. Ship production LLM-powered systems and support governed data transformation, quality, lineage, and testing.

Lead ambiguous, multi-team software projects for core accounting systems. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, build and deploy reliable software, review technical specifications, investigate production issues, and improve system reliability. Collaborate with product and cross-functional stakeholders, mentor and sponsor engineers, and maintain high standards for clean, tested code. The role focuses on typed Python backend services, financial systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.

Lead platform reliability: define SLOs/error budgets, own observability and deploy pipelines, harden integrations with dental systems, operate LLM-driven workflows safely, build incident practices, and raise engineering reliability across the company.

Lead design and implementation of high-performance distributed storage systems across object, block, and file paradigms. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, integrate storage with networking/compute/DPUs, optimize protocol performance, troubleshoot production data center issues, build benchmarking and observability tooling, and collaborate on cross-functional AI infrastructure deployments.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Lead the design and development of scalable traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration systems. Drive architecture, technical roadmaps, secure-by-default networking, design reviews, and cross-functional alignment. Mentor engineers and optimize distributed systems for reliability, performance, cost, and global scalability while incorporating customer and business requirements.

Lead test architect for end-to-end integration testing of a complex genomics product portfolio. Design contract-first validations (OpenAPI/Avro), build resilient API and event-driven test frameworks, embed LLM-driven test generation and log analysis into CI/CD, mentor SQEs, enforce staging guardrails, and run chaos/resiliency experiments across distributed microservices.

Design, build, and operate Rust services powering Scribd’s large-scale Content Library and core infrastructure. Own features end to end, evolve Python tooling, optimize DataFusion, Parquet, S3, caching, and PostgreSQL/Aurora systems, and strengthen governance through lineage, authorization, and deletion controls. Lead cross-functional technical projects, support platform users, mentor engineers, improve developer workflows, and maintain production reliability through observability, on-call, and incident response.

Build integrations that discover, identify, and govern AI agents across third-party platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce, Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud. Retrieve native identity signals, integrate them with Delinea’s identity layer, and govern agents through provider APIs and attestation. Improve shared discovery capabilities while using connector patterns, OAuth, token exchange, and event-based ingestion. The role requires substantial backend engineering experience, strong integration skills, and familiarity with cloud, AI agent, security, or identity ecosystems.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of Signifyd's GCP/Kubernetes cloud platform. Architect scalable, secure infrastructure, embed AI-driven automation, own SLOs and incident response, improve developer experience via CI/CD/GitOps tooling, mentor engineers, manage cloud capacity/FinOps, and build observability and security into the platform.

Develop and maintain embedded networking software for Airwall Zero Trust technology across constrained devices, OpenWRT, and ARM platforms. Work on secure data paths involving IPsec, ESP, IKE, overlay networking, NAT traversal, and PKI. Modernize the technology stack, troubleshoot packet-level networking failures in customer environments, improve code quality and performance, and mentor engineers. The role requires close collaboration with product, engineering, and customers.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable full-stack applications for a next-generation document management platform. Build React, TypeScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, and AWS solutions using event-driven architectures, Kafka, APIs, AI services, and modern data pipelines. Improve system performance, reliability, security, observability, and scalability while owning complex initiatives through production. Partner with Product, Design, and Platform teams, establish technical direction, mentor engineers, and guide engineering standards.

Lead initiatives in designing and building large-scale distributed data systems and ML infrastructure, while collaborating across various engineering teams.