Top Remote Python Jobs in San Diego, CA

Build and maintain authentication and fine-grained authorization systems using Auth0 and OpenFGA. Own OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect implementations, identity federation, token flows, and permissions for AI agents. Lead cross-team technical projects, set engineering standards, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend development skills and experience with identity providers, ReBAC systems, and complex multi-tenant authorization models.

Principal Architect responsible for shaping Wasabi’s object storage and database architecture. Designs large-scale distributed systems, evaluates database technologies, builds proofs of concept, troubleshoots performance and reliability issues, and guides long-term technical direction. The role requires deep AWS S3, database internals, distributed systems, Linux, networking, programming, and AI architecture expertise, along with technical leadership, mentoring, and hands-on engineering.

Own QA strategy and release quality for POS, back-office, and payments products. Build automated unit, integration, API, contract, and end-to-end tests; integrate testing into GitHub Actions; validate hardware, offline modes, payment flows, and upgrades; establish release gates and test environments; monitor quality metrics; reproduce merchant issues; and coach engineers on testable design and quality practices.

Lead enterprise automation and agentic AI initiatives, owning the automation and integration stack and Center of Excellence. Build secure, reusable workflows and integration frameworks using platforms such as Zapier, Claude, and Glean. Establish governance, standards, documentation, and prioritization practices while partnering with IT, innovation teams, engineers, business stakeholders, and executives. Identify operational inefficiencies, develop automation roadmaps, and deliver scalable systems with secure data handling, access controls, human oversight, and measurable business impact.

The Senior Full-Stack Engineer will manage client relationships, design integration solutions, and ensure seamless delivery and optimization of technical workflows, while leveraging AI for efficiency.

Establishes and owns Bloom’s production support and incident response function. Responsibilities include implementing monitoring, supporting major incidents, coordinating responders and vendors, overseeing root cause analysis, tracking preventive actions, automating repetitive support tasks with Python or Bash, maintaining documentation, and measuring incident response effectiveness. The role also supports client-facing Operations teams with onboarding, offboarding, sandbox resets, and other technical support needs while partnering with product and engineering teams to reduce support overhead.

Own and deliver backend lakehouse infrastructure goals, lead engineers through complex problems, and build highly available distributed data systems. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; define scalable technical solutions; improve code quality and engineering standards; monitor operational health; support on-call responsibilities; and mentor team members.

Design and scale foundational APIs and backend services for LogicGate’s multi-tenant GRC platform. Build distributed systems using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, AWS, databases, caching, and messaging technologies. Improve reliability, observability, performance, testing, and CI/CD practices. Lead technical design reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and use AI coding tools to improve development efficiency.

Build and maintain CrowdStrike’s golden-image platform and automated pipelines across Linux, macOS, and Windows. Develop Python automation for image builds, validation, drift detection, and testing; manage infrastructure as code with Ansible, Packer, and Terraform; integrate Jenkins, GitLab CI, and Artifactory; and support image lifecycle operations. The role includes troubleshooting production issues, security hardening, compliance collaboration, documentation, cross-team partnership, and participation in on-call rotations.

Build and launch scalable fullstack web applications and APIs for Affirm’s Ads Platform. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering partners to break projects into deliverable phases, make technical trade-offs, write tested and extensible code, monitor service metrics, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviews.

Build and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer products. Break down projects, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, develop scalable APIs, write well-tested code, monitor service health, participate in on-call support, review code, and contribute to engineering growth and interviewing.

Develop backend tools and systems that improve batch development, testing, workflow efficiency, and reliability. Collaborate with product, infrastructure, design, and analytics teams; break projects into deliverable phases; build scalable, well-tested code; monitor metrics; support system availability and on-call operations; debug code; conduct reviews; and contribute to engineering growth and hiring activities.

Research and analyze vehicle network signals, OEM telematics data, wiring diagrams, and field logs to expand vehicle telemetry coverage. Capture and interpret vehicle network data using live debugging, log analysis, scraping, reverse engineering, and custom scripts. Validate solutions on vehicles and at customer locations, document findings, and collaborate with global engineering and product teams to support new telematics capabilities.

Lead firmware and full-stack development for edge AI safety products, spanning embedded systems, Go backend services, and web or mobile surfaces. Own features from customer problem through fleet-scale deployment, establish architecture, optimize AI algorithms for constrained devices, partner with hardware and cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and deliver high-impact products across more than one million connected devices.

Build and lead development of full-stack agentic AI products for systems modernization. Responsibilities include creating coding harnesses and runtime layers, integrating source control, CI/CD, security, and developer tools, scaling coding-agent workflows, and partnering with customers, designers, and mission teams. The role requires production-grade, cybersecurity-compliant systems, strong product judgment, and close collaboration with forward-deployed engineering teams supporting national security missions.

Leads a cloud network engineering team responsible for designing, securing, implementing, and maintaining Azure, hybrid, and on-premises network infrastructure. Oversees architecture, connectivity, reliability, automation, observability, incident response, compliance, and security practices. Manages team performance, work prioritization, mentoring, hiring support, and on-call operations while collaborating with Cloud, DevOps, Security, and application teams.

Design and implement backend APIs, microservices, and checkout platform components for Affirm’s financial products. Own system health, improve performance and reliability, collaborate across engineering teams, and contribute to technical standards, tooling, and processes. The role requires developing, testing, and shipping high-quality software at scale while making customer-centric technical decisions.

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure powering a multi-tenant SaaS platform, including EKS, VPC, IAM, RDS, Terraform, Helm, and CI/CD. Lead infrastructure projects, improve reliability and developer self-service, manage SLOs, reduce toil, support SOC 2 compliance, mentor engineers, and participate in incident response. Collaborate with Product teams on reliable customer launches and use observability tools to monitor platform performance.

Maintains and troubleshoots server, storage, networking, cabling, and power hardware across a large-scale production data center fleet. Writes Python automation scripts, reviews logs and alerts, performs diagnostics, supports deployments, builds hardware health dashboards, coordinates with DevOps, supply chain, and vendors, and assists with hardware evaluation and reliability improvements. Requires on-call availability and travel to data center sites.

Designs, builds, deploys, integrates, and supports full-stack applications, APIs, data services, workflow tools, automation, dashboards, and AI-enabled capabilities for oncology research and operations. Partners with scientific, informatics, and business stakeholders; improves processes; maintains secure and reliable systems; manages cloud deployments; contributes to testing, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and lifecycle planning; and mentors junior engineers.

Build low-latency, high-reliability trading, risk, and analytics systems for fintech applications. Translate quantitative models into production software, collaborate with quants and traders, implement market data and FIX systems, and optimize performance through concurrency, profiling, debugging, and high-performance computing. The role also includes code and design reviews, stakeholder collaboration, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Design, build, and integrate software for autonomous robots across the full robotics stack. Responsibilities include sensor integration, perception, localization, motion planning, control, behavioral systems, sensor fusion, real-time debugging, simulation, field testing, and hardware integration. The role also involves cross-functional collaboration, code and design reviews, production delivery, technical documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

Designs, builds, and improves test automation frameworks and production-quality test code across unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and security testing. Partners with cross-functional teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, validates APIs and databases, supports CI/CD automation, and works with distributed systems and modern web architectures. The role also involves code and design reviews, debugging, documentation, communication, and mentoring junior engineers.

Operate and support enterprise PLM platforms, including installation, configuration, upgrades, migrations, integrations, performance tuning, and high availability/disaster recovery. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, and functional teams to maintain a reliable and secure PLM ecosystem. Required expertise includes Windchill or Teamcenter, database and Linux administration, scripting, troubleshooting, and PLM middleware. Cloud, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, certification, and large-scale CAD integration experience are preferred.

Evaluate AI coding-agent interactions for usefulness, correctness, engineering judgment, reasoning quality, and developer trust. Provide clear, opinionated feedback, distinguish response-quality levels, and help define standards for excellent interactions with tools such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor. This contract role requires staff- or principal-level software engineering experience and familiarity with modern AI-assisted development workflows.