Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs

Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable product features, from database models through UI components. Set technical direction, architect and optimize systems, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, improve workflows, and champion testing, code quality, and continuous deployment. Collaborate with product and design teams, resolve technical bottlenecks, and lead production releases in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain critical software supporting scientific experiments, instruments, data systems, and infrastructure. Translate ambiguous research needs into reliable software milestones, develop integrations and high-volume data workflows, solve concurrency and performance issues, and improve testing, observability, and release practices. The role also includes architecture decisions, code review, mentoring, technical leadership, and collaboration with scientists and engineers.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Leads the architecture and development of Greyspace, a realistic simulated internet for cyber ranges. Designs distributed services, APIs, orchestration, networking behavior, isolation boundaries, and operator workflows. Builds and reviews production software, validates DNS, TLS, web, and mail services, and ensures reliability through testing, observability, performance validation, recovery procedures, and deployment readiness. Partners across Product, Security, infrastructure, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and driving technical standards.

Lead architecture and development of Beacon’s backend Datastore platform, including PostgreSQL data models, Kafka event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, clinical-data access controls, and warehouse snapshot pipelines. Design scalable systems, tune queries, operate production infrastructure, lead RFCs, debug cross-system issues, mentor engineers, and collaborate with scientific, clinical, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of Pantheon’s data platform, extending ingestion, curation, retention services and ML/LLM infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive architecture and engineering standards, operate in a DevOps model, partner cross-functionally, and participate in on-call support to ensure reliable, compliant data access and analytics.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads technical direction for Everand’s backend platform, including architecture, reliability, observability, CI/CD, databases, queues, and scalable distributed systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, web, mobile, and ML teams to deliver personalized reading and listening experiences. Mentors engineers, drives architecture reviews and modernization efforts, improves technical quality, and owns platform health, performance, cost, and resilience.

Design, build, and operate Docker’s enterprise AI agent platform using Go and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include cloud control planes, multi-cloud infrastructure, security and network boundaries, reproducible software supply chains, production ownership, on-call operations, SLOs, incident response, distributed systems design, and technical leadership. The role also includes mentoring engineers and collaborating across runtime, identity, developer experience, and observability teams.

Lead front-end architecture and cross-team technical initiatives for the NodeZero platform. Build scalable React and TypeScript systems, reusable components, developer tooling, and shared frameworks while improving performance, reliability, accessibility, observability, and CI/CD workflows. Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, guide technical strategy, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform, Security, and engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Build and productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

Build and operate critical software for power-campus design, construction, simulation, optimization, equipment integration, and energy management. Own technical areas, shape roadmaps, make architectural decisions, debug production systems, establish data models and interfaces, improve testing and observability, and mentor engineers. The role collaborates across power systems, construction, robotics, and company leadership to deliver reliable software interacting with physical infrastructure.

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, modernization, and company-wide adoption of Pinterest’s AI/ML evaluation platform. Design reliable evaluation systems for GenAI and machine learning workloads using automated metrics, human feedback, expert judgment, safety assessments, and business outcomes. Drive cross-team workstreams, resolve technical tradeoffs, establish evaluation standards, and improve the quality, reliability, and trustworthiness of AI-powered products.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.

Leads Pinterest’s App Promotion engineering team through App Install Optimization beta-to-GA delivery. Owns the engineering roadmap, advertiser experience, measurement accuracy, experimentation, reporting, operational excellence, and cross-functional execution across Ads, ML, Measurement, Product, and Design. Manages, hires, coaches, and develops a team of 5–6 full-stack and mobile engineers while driving scalable production systems and inclusive team culture.

Leads architecture and development of highly available, distributed backend systems supporting Airbnb’s AirCover insurance platform. Owns policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, experimentation, and scalable multi-region capabilities. Partners with product, data science, legal, and engineering teams; analyzes conversion data; ensures auditability, privacy, reliability, and data integrity; mentors engineers; and applies emerging technologies such as LLMs where beneficial.

Design, build, and maintain production-grade full-stack applications using React, Node.js, and TypeScript. Develop scalable backend services, REST/GraphQL APIs, and cloud-native solutions on AWS. Contribute to system architecture, observability, and event-driven designs, own features through deployment, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver secure, high-quality software.

Lead architecture and reliability for a high-scale alerting platform. Design rule-based, ML-driven, and correlated detection systems; own Kafka-based event delivery, webhook reliability, idempotency, and sustained-load performance. Transform security and network telemetry into topology and dependency models that support LLM-assisted investigation and remediation. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide long-term platform strategy across multiple alerting teams.

Design and build the core vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own backend features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems architecture challenges involving networking, storage, isolation, and resource sharing. Contribute to open-source projects and the Kubernetes community, operate autonomously in a high-growth startup, and help define scalable Kubernetes multi-tenancy solutions.

Own the Linux user-mode runtime, driver, and HAL interfaces for a Fabric accelerator. Responsibilities include runtime library design, compiler and kernel-driver integration, memory and resource management, ML framework backends, pre-silicon bring-up using simulation, emulation, QEMU, and FPGAs, and comprehensive runtime testing. Collaborate across compiler, architecture, verification, and kernel teams to support first-silicon deployment.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building data and machine learning systems that provide competitive travel-market intelligence. The role involves setting technical strategy, designing APIs and backend architecture, prototyping solutions, partnering with product and ML engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Own development of a Linux kernel-mode driver for a custom Fabric accelerator, including memory management, SMMU/IOMMU integration, MMIO, interrupts, power management, firmware, and user-space interfaces. Lead pre-silicon enablement using QEMU, simulation, emulation, and FPGA platforms; manage Linux boot and first-silicon bring-up. Debug complex hardware and kernel issues, establish automated testing, and collaborate with architecture, verification, compiler, and hardware teams.