Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs

Design, optimize, and maintain language execution engines and runtime systems (JIT/AOT, memory management) for scalable applications. Own full development lifecycle, implement high-quality reusable code, profile and optimize performance, integrate AI into workflows, collaborate with product owners, and mentor engineers on low-level systems and optimization techniques.

Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure, platforms, and services that run machine learning workloads in production. Build scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and ML model-serving infrastructure on AWS. Drive architecture, performance, reliability, cost optimization, and GPU workload management while collaborating with ML scientists, data engineers, and product teams. Mentor engineers and lead complex technical initiatives across a globally distributed organization.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML and generative AI solutions at scale. Drive personalization, pricing, experimentation, agentic AI, and simulation modeling. Partner with engineering and product teams, mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and measure business impact through data-driven experimentation.

Lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Docker, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Own architecture, APIs, data models, monitoring, performance, and code quality while collaborating with product, data, and DevOps teams. Provide technical leadership through system design, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement in a remote-first healthcare technology environment.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Own and build Headways experimentation platform: assignment, exposure, identity resolution, feature flags, and data pipelines. Drive technical direction, reliability, and company-wide experimentation practices, integrate AI for diagnostics, and enable market-level tests across teams.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Build and operate enterprise IAM platforms, integrations, provisioning workflows, and lifecycle automation. Lead CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code initiatives using GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet. Develop full-stack IAM services, apply analytics and AI to identity governance, and ensure scalable, reliable, auditable systems. Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, lead technical initiatives, conduct design and code reviews, and collaborate with security, compliance, product, and engineering teams.

Build and operate enterprise IAM platforms and ServiceNow integrations. Lead CI/CD automation using GitLab, Jenkins, and Nexus; implement infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet; develop full-stack identity workflows; and apply analytics and AI to identity governance. Drive scalable, secure, observable systems, lead technical initiatives, conduct design and code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Build and own backend services, web applications, REST APIs, webhooks, and enterprise integrations. Lead customer integrations from scoping through launch, improve the operator dashboard, and maintain production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product, success, and customer engineering teams while contributing to code reviews, technical design, mentoring, security, and AI-assisted development.

Design, develop, and enhance scalable agentic software solutions in a cloud-native environment. Build backend services and RESTful APIs using Java, AWS, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and container technologies. Contribute to architecture, event-driven systems, security, reliability, code quality, troubleshooting, and operational excellence while collaborating across engineering teams.

Staff Java Software Engineer responsible for architecting, building, and operating scalable backend services, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, and third-party integrations. The role provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, drives cross-functional delivery, manages production reliability, and partners with business and platform teams. Strong Java, architecture, integration, operational excellence, and communication skills are required; experience with Kafka, AWS, regulated systems, web UIs, AI platforms, and Salesforce is preferred.

Design and build scalable, extensible software infrastructure for regulated mortgage servicing systems. Collaborate with Product and Design to deliver customer experiences, learn new technologies quickly, and balance technical and product requirements. Develop robust systems capable of handling complex regulations, billions of dollars in loans, and rapid growth in a fast-paced startup environment.

Leads architecture and development of Trellix’s high-throughput cloud threat detection platform. Designs microservices, asynchronous submission pipelines, sandbox execution systems, full-stack analyst interfaces, secure AWS infrastructure, identity integrations, telemetry pipelines, and compliant multi-region architectures. Owns infrastructure as code, observability, production reliability, security practices, technical documentation, incident response, and SLA commitments while integrating AI-assisted development tools.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead technical design and implementation of the ISPM product using Ruby on Rails. Build scalable data pipelines and systems to process large-scale identity telemetry, collaborate with security researchers and product teams, mentor engineers, and set architectural direction for detection and remediation features.

Build and lead development of the ESPM platform using Ruby on Rails. Define technical vision, design scalable data pipelines and architectures for petabyte-scale ingestion, implement features across the stack, collaborate with security researchers, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality, tested deliveries.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.

Leads architecture and full software development lifecycle activities for scalable, reliable systems. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders, resolves complex production issues, guides engineers, evaluates emerging technologies and AI capabilities, and enforces code quality through reviews and automated testing. Requires expertise in C#/.NET, PostgreSQL or SQL, cloud technologies, frontend frameworks, and test automation.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, architecture, complex feature design, implementation, scalability, and greenfield development. The role mentors engineers, leads design and code reviews, drives technical alignment, addresses technical debt, participates in hiring, and remains a hands-on contributor to full-stack enterprise software development using technologies such as PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, and MySQL.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.

Lead design and build of scalable AWS cloud-based backend services and APIs powering web and mobile customer experiences. Own end-to-end feature delivery, improve grading and authentication workflows for scale and reliability, leverage AI tools to accelerate development, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams.