Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Lead performance practices for large-scale AI systems, enhance datacenter products, and resolve complex performance issues through collaboration and technical expertise.

Design, build, and maintain automated migration workflows to onboard dental practices. Implement C#, .NET, and PowerShell scripts, manage ETL processes and SQL data transformations, troubleshoot live routines, leverage AI tools to speed development, and produce technical documentation to ensure secure, reliable migrations.

Lead design and implementation of core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Build high-performance Rust systems, support production deployments, collaborate with ML engineers, design scalable data architectures, troubleshoot performance and scalability issues, and cultivate a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture.

Own and advance Chainguard’s internal Developer Platform, including monorepo CI/CD, shared build infrastructure, and Agentic AI tooling. Improve developer experience, build reliability, change throughput, observability, and secure software delivery. Design scalable platform architecture, consolidate build systems, establish standardized delivery blueprints, automate developer toil, partner with engineering teams, and mentor engineers while contributing to technical direction and DORA-aligned outcomes.

Lead the migration of Vanta’s resource data platform from MongoDB to schema-aware PostgreSQL while maintaining API compatibility and data integrity. Design high-throughput Kafka and S3 ingestion pipelines, eventual-consistency strategies, query infrastructure, tenant isolation, and reliable distributed systems. Set architectural direction across storage, caching, and streaming technologies; mentor engineers; drive cross-team technical roadmaps; and improve reliability, observability, and operational excellence.

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Define architecture and technical direction for Catalyst’s distributed data platform, including messaging, state management, reconciliation, streaming, storage, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations. Build Go and Python frameworks, improve reliability and SLOs, lead incident response, maintain secure dependency and artifact delivery, and develop infrastructure automation. Collaborate across teams and with customers, review designs and code, establish engineering standards, and travel internationally up to 25% to support mission-critical deployments.

Owns the architecture and implementation of high-performance real-time streaming systems, including media ingestion, buffering, relay, packetization, telemetry synchronization, and distribution. Designs protocol modules, resolves interoperability challenges, improves latency and throughput, and maintains production reliability through testing, observability, incident response, and automated deployments. Partners with stakeholders, documents architectural trade-offs, mentors engineers, leads technical rituals, and travels internationally up to 25% to support customer and mission requirements.

Design, implement, and support high-performance storage and query infrastructure handling billions of events. Independently scope and deliver complex projects, optimize query performance, improve reliability, participate in on-call rotations, define KPIs and SLOs, reduce operational toil, debug production issues, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web and backend applications, public REST APIs, automated testing frameworks, and cloud-native services. Improve scalability, stability, monitoring, auto-scaling, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document root causes and operational procedures, and collaborate with distributed engineering teams to deliver fleet-management platforms.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

The Staff SDET will design and implement automated test frameworks using TypeScript, collaborate with developers, and enhance testing processes within CI/CD pipelines.

Design, build, and optimize GraphQL APIs, gRPC services and SQL queries for a promotions engine. Own complex technical problems, improve production scalability and performance, set up DataDog monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end features in an agile environment.

Build and operate AlphaSense's identity platform across user management, authentication, and authorization. Design scalable RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC systems, integrate authentication patterns (OAuth/OIDC/SAML), implement SCIM provisioning, and expose GraphQL/gRPC/REST APIs. Partner with security on SOC2/GDPR compliance, drive platform roadmap, champion testing, observability, and reliability, and operate autonomously from North America in close collaboration with the Helsinki team.

Build and ship full‑stack product features on a Python/Flask backend and React frontend. Design REST/GraphQL APIs, work with SQLAlchemy and relational data models, integrate LLM/AI features, use async task queues (Celery), and collaborate with product, design, and engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested features end-to-end.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based software solutions. Collaborate across the SDLC with stakeholders and development teams, integrate DevOps and CI/CD practices, support operational tasks, ensure security and performance, drive feature development, conduct code reviews, and stay current with emerging technologies.

Technical leader for Platform & Infrastructure building scalable, resilient cloud-native systems to support large AI workloads. Define architecture, mentor engineers, solve systemic infrastructure bottlenecks, design foundational platform services, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure secure, high-performance operations.

Lead architecture and scaling of cloud-native infrastructure to support large AI workloads. Mentor engineers, decompose complex systems, design foundational platform services, and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to ensure secure, performant, and highly available GPU/ML infrastructure.

Implement EVM-compatible features, optimize gas usage, develop and test smart contracts, collaborate on Ethereum infrastructure, troubleshoot Ethereum issues, and stay current with Ethereum advancements.

Develop and optimize Soroban smart contracts and integrate anchor services on the Stellar network for cross-border payment solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, test and debug contracts, document processes, and provide technical support while staying current on blockchain and payments trends.

Develop and maintain high-security mobile applications using React Native, Swift, or Kotlin. Implement biometric authentication and secure key storage, collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features, troubleshoot and optimize app performance, and propose enhancements based on emerging technologies.