Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement core services and systems, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while focusing on scalable, high-performance software development.

Lead performance and efficiency initiatives for Pinterest's large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure. Improve Kubernetes and distributed system efficiency, build profiling and optimization tooling, collaborate with Infrastructure and SRE teams, leverage AI to accelerate investigations and provide self-serve efficiency recommendations, and validate impact through measurement and experiments.

As a Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain backend functionality for scalable services, focusing on storage systems and reliability.

Lead and scale GridUnity's quality engineering strategy: harden agent-driven test pipelines, enforce evidence-backed release gates, retire manual tests, build agent-verdict calibration, embed automated testing in CI/CD, mentor teams, define quality metrics, and expand the system across product lines.

Own and operate the full-stack application surfaces of a live patient-facing product: embeddable React/TypeScript widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Advise and make architectural decisions, integrate AI Intake features, ship versioned shared surfaces, keep dependencies current, and mentor junior engineers while partnering closely with AI/ML teammates to coordinate application and model work.

Technical lead for the backend platform of Pinterest Assistant: define architecture and build scalable orchestration, memory, personalization, context management, APIs, tool integrations, and infrastructure for multimodal conversational AI. Drive platform strategy, estabish production best practices for LLM/agent systems, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally with ML, frontend, and product teams.

Lead architecture and system design as a staff engineer, manage critical microservices, and influence engineering practices in fintech/blockchain.

Design, build, and maintain automation and testing infrastructure for the North platform: CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, containerized test environments (Docker/Kubernetes), Helm and ArgoCD deployments, infrastructure-as-code, benchmarking, parallel test execution, and cross-team standards to improve test coverage, reliability, and deployment confidence.

Lead architecture and implementation of ledger, payments, and money-movement systems. Design reliable backend services, integrations, and data models for balances, reimbursements, reconciliation, reversals, and payment state. Guide technical decisions, mentor engineers, partner with product leadership, and apply production financial systems experience to ensure correctness and operational reliability.

As a Founding Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of robust backend systems and APIs, optimize large-scale data workflows, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Design, build, and operate distributed, high-volume transactional backend services in Go. Own scope, architecture, correctness guarantees, production behavior, observability, and automated verification. Collaborate across product, infra, and QA while using agent-driven engineering practices.

Founding platform engineering role to architect, build, and operate core platform systems (billing, integrations, Kubernetes/cloud infra, CI/CD, AI/LLM platform, observability). Own platform roadmap, mentor engineers, lead cross-team architecture, and diagnose/resolve production issues while establishing the Platform Engineering function.

Seeking Data Platform Engineers to design, build, and manage scalable data pipelines and analytic query engines while ensuring data integrity and performance optimization.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll develop critical backend systems focusing on APIs, data processing, and infrastructure while ensuring high-quality service delivery and robust architecture.

Lead development of backend systems and integrations to ingest and process large-scale data, design secure multi-tenant SaaS architectures, own APIs and platform work, mentor engineers, author technical proposals, and troubleshoot production issues to minimize downtime.

Lead design and development of software that interfaces with quantum processors, supporting calibration, hardware interfaces, testing, monitoring, and operational infrastructure. Drive architecture, optimize performance, mentor engineers, run technical investigations, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure QPU solver availability on the Leap cloud platform.

Lead technical architecture and deliver scalable, high-quality mobile application features. Mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical decisions, design APIs and integration patterns, improve developer productivity, ensure testability, performance, and operational excellence for Home Depot's mobile shopping app.

Lead end-to-end AI solutions as a forward-deployed engineer: scope, design, and deploy ML/LLM systems; partner with clients and stakeholders; build infrastructure, data pipelines, and reusable platform components; mentor engineers; own projects from discovery through production and provide on-call support.

As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer on the Localization team, you will design algorithms for state estimation systems, optimizing multi-sensor data fusion for real-time vehicle localization in autonomous driving.

Design, implement, scale, and maintain backend systems processing large data volumes. Build event-driven and API integrations, migrate to domain-based architectures, optimize performance-sensitive workflows, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product and data science while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, implement, scale, and maintain backend systems that process large volumes of data. Build event-driven and API integrations, optimize performance-sensitive workflows, migrate to domain-based scalable architecture, and collaborate with product, data science, and multiple engineering teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Design, implement, scale, and maintain backend systems processing large data volumes. Build event-driven and API integrations, migrate to domain-based architectures, optimize performance-sensitive workflows, investigate and resolve technical issues, collaborate with product and data science, and mentor junior/mid-level engineers (~20% of time).

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Mapping team, you will architect and develop robust, scalable systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with multidisciplinary experts and handling complex data processing.

Design, implement, scale, and maintain backend systems that process large volumes of data. Build and optimize event-driven and API-based integrations, migrate to domain-based architectures, and ensure high-throughput, low-latency production performance. Investigate technical problems, collaborate with product and data science, and mentor junior engineers while delivering robust, production-critical solutions.

Lead improvements to decision-making, motion planning, and controls software quality for driverless vehicles. Implement validation, diagnostics, static analysis, compiler optimizations, and eliminate runtime allocations. Develop and deploy agentic AI tools to enforce design and validation principles, collaborate across subsystems, and present results to reduce failures before commercial launch.