Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Design and scale platform infrastructure, backend services, developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and secure cloud-native systems. Improve developer experience, reliability, observability, and incident response while establishing security and compliance controls. Partner with engineering and product leaders to shape architecture and platform strategy, mentor engineers, and support customer-facing logistics projects. The role uses Python, AWS, Terraform, containers, orchestration, event-driven architectures, and relational databases.

Build and modernize backend services supporting patient scheduling, order management, and patient access workflows. Improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability across legacy healthcare applications, microservices, containerized infrastructure, and Kubernetes platforms. Collaborate with engineering, platform, product, and support teams while using CI/CD, automation, automated testing, and AI-assisted development practices to address complex technical challenges.

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.

Design and implement real-time MAC data-plane software for high-throughput satellite links. Build packet-processing pipelines, queue and buffer management, retransmission and loss recovery, and integrate with PHY, modem, FPGA, DMA, and SoC hardware. Optimize for low latency and high throughput using zero-copy, scatter-gather, lock-free structures, and hardware offload. Lead architecture through prototyping, hardware integration, performance qualification, and operational deployment while diagnosing timing and synchronization issues.

Build, own, and operate cloud-native .NET services powering real-time trading, market data, and brokerage integrations. Ship features end-to-end, write tests, participate in on-call rotations, improve observability, and occasionally contribute to React/TypeScript frontend work.

Designs and develops scalable customer-facing web applications and microservices APIs. Leads complex system architecture, performs code reviews, mentors engineers, defines technical implementations, and guides engineering vision. Maintains sustainable business systems, supports compliance initiatives, and improves development processes. The role requires Java and Spring experience, cloud technologies, relational databases, REST and event-driven architectures, containerization, front-end development, and software lifecycle expertise.

Lead architecture and engineering for Azure core platform: define technology requirements, resolve cross-team issues, drive systemic reliability/performance improvements, mentor engineers, support on-call operations, and apply AI/ML to cloud operations.

Develop and evolve Azure capacity infrastructure, platform capabilities, and service stacks at scale. Provide technical leadership in requirements, architecture, design, coding, release planning, and operational reliability. Mentor engineers, manage cross-product dependencies, serve as a designated responsible individual, participate in on-call support, and improve system availability, observability, performance, and efficiency.

Lead quality engineering for a backend-heavy Immigration AI platform. Design test plans and cases, establish test environments, execute manual and automated testing, build custom frameworks and tooling, and test REST, asynchronous, event-driven, and backend services. Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, identify automation opportunities, apply GenAI and LLMs, perform load and stress testing, and improve testing pipeline scalability, performance, and efficiency.

Leads the design, development, testing, debugging, and implementation of scalable software applications. Collaborates with product, design, and engineering stakeholders, conducts code reviews, mentors engineers, resolves performance issues, and improves development processes. The role requires proficiency in multiple programming languages, software testing, AI-assisted code generation, and preferably healthcare compliance, full-stack technologies, GraphQL, REST APIs, NoSQL, AWS, and infrastructure as code.

Leads Node.js sub-team architecture, technical standards, and complex full-stack development across frontend, mobile, and backend platforms. Builds React, TypeScript, Next.js, React Native, and Node.js features; designs APIs, authentication, caching, and data models; mentors engineers; and owns performance, testing, CI/CD, security, scalability, and HIPAA-compliant delivery.

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.

Join ROOST's Coop project to design, implement, test, document, and release trust-and-safety features. Work across backend APIs, GraphQL, databases, and UI to improve reviewer workflows, detection integrations, and reporting. Lead code quality, security practices, community contribution reviews, and stakeholder coordination while engaging with users and the open source community.

Join the ROOST Osprey team to design, implement, test, and maintain a high-performance, real-time safety rules engine. Work includes building data/event pipelines, scaling and containerizing services, integrating with Kafka and gRPC, reviewing community contributions, maintaining code quality and security, and engaging with users and open source contributors to prioritize and deliver features.

Lead end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend for an enterprise data analytics platform. Design, implement, and maintain React UIs, backend services, APIs, databases, and distributed systems. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering, mentor engineers, improve quality through testing/CI, and introduce new technologies including AI-assisted development.

Design and implement scalable backend and frontend systems, build and maintain data pipelines, design SQL/GraphQL database systems, collaborate on product and metrics, improve performance, security, and reliability, and support customer-facing features.

Design and own CI/CD and configuration management for a large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet. Define GitOps-driven, declarative reference architectures and templated production environments. Implement progressive delivery (canary, automated rollback), improve pipeline reliability and speed, evolve the Internal Developer Portal, embed AI tooling into delivery workflows, and partner with Cloud, Security, and Compliance while mentoring senior engineers.

Designs and develops software to automate onboarding, validation, management, tracking, and lifecycle operations for new hardware deployed in Microsoft datacenters. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, system design, coding, debugging, optimization, reliability engineering, monitoring, on-call support, and incident response. The role collaborates with Azure teams and stakeholders while improving scalability, security, availability, observability, and performance across cloud and distributed systems.

Design and implement PostgreSQL internals, indexing, query engine extensions, and storage-layer features to support large-scale document workloads on Azure. Profile distributed systems, tune performance, collaborate with open-source communities, conduct design/code reviews, and drive cross-team alignment for mission-critical database features.

Build and maintain on-chain smart contracts and backend services for branded USDC-backed stablecoins. Own issuance, reserves, mint/burn, and rewards systems; drive architecture, security, and operational excellence; ship features with product and design partners and ensure well-tested, auditable production deployments.

Own quality engineering for high-throughput payment systems by architecting automated regression, performance, stress, and load testing. Build emulators for external payment systems, integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, validate microservices, event-driven architectures, and databases, and use Prometheus and Grafana for observability. Apply AI-assisted testing, synthetic data generation, and edge-case analysis while mentoring engineers and preventing incidents through telemetry-driven testing and post-mortems.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for expert-level coding, system architecture, technical strategy, code quality, SDLC improvement, and enterprise-scale modernization. Designs distributed systems and API integrations, governs architectural change, drives resiliency, security, observability, and performance standards, and influences stakeholders across multiple teams. Mentors engineers, leads technical initiatives without direct authority, manages technical risks and dependencies, and ensures compliance with regulatory, audit, and corporate engineering standards.

Build and scale ML-optimized HPC infrastructure, manage Kubernetes-based GPU/TPU superclusters, optimize for AI/ML training, and mentor teams while innovating in ML infrastructure.

Build and maintain reliable, secure, scalable backend systems for Lithic’s product platform. Own projects end to end across API key management, reliability, audit logging, search, and API infrastructure. Improve system reliability, reduce technical debt, participate in on-call rotations, and lead team process improvements while collaborating asynchronously across time zones.

Build and operate highly scalable storage infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale imagery data. Responsibilities include developing backend services and APIs, managing object storage and metadata indexing, tuning Elasticsearch, improving disaster recovery, monitoring performance, responding to incidents, contributing to architecture and roadmaps, and advising engineers. The role requires strong production software engineering experience with Go or Python, cloud-native systems, relational and non-relational databases, and highly available services.