Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Designs scalable systems, leads end-to-end technical execution, drives cross-team initiatives, and contributes hands-on production code. The role maintains engineering standards across architecture, testing, CI/CD, observability, and DevOps; leads incident response and root-cause analysis; mentors engineers; troubleshoots production issues; and aligns technical delivery with product priorities.

Leads software quality and test automation for web, mobile, and application portfolios. Designs automated testing strategies, frameworks, plans, and test cases; performs functional, integration, regression, performance, load, API, and manual testing. Mentors test engineers, reviews requirements, tracks defects, supports Agile delivery, maintains CI/CD test coverage, and collaborates with developers and cross-functional teams to ensure application quality.

Build and operate high-throughput distributed systems for Yahoo Mail’s anti-spam protection and message delivery infrastructure. Responsibilities include writing, testing, deploying, debugging, and performance-tuning backend services; designing reliable components; using AI-assisted development tools; reviewing code; and making independent technical decisions. The role requires expertise in Java, Go, or C++, cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, machine learning, and scalable distributed systems.

Develop security patches for CVEs affecting end-of-life .NET versions and NuGet packages. Analyze upstream fixes, rebuild legacy .NET environments, maintain cross-platform toolchains, and create test harnesses for patch correctness and compatibility. Build AI-assisted automation for vulnerability triage and backporting, support customer engineering teams, and contribute to security, supply-chain, and cloud-related initiatives.

Design and develop cloud-native geospatial applications, microservices, serverless solutions, RESTful APIs, and spatial data integrations for mission-critical public safety and enterprise environments. Build CI/CD pipelines, apply infrastructure-as-code practices, embed security and multi-tenant controls, and mentor engineers through code reviews and best practices. Maintain the quality, reliability, and evolution of geospatial engineering products.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

Develop and optimize payment platforms for performance, reliability, security, fraud prevention, and seamless recurring transactions. Build payment APIs and gateway integrations, improve processing latency and throughput, monitor platform health, troubleshoot incidents, and ensure compliance with payment industry standards. Collaborate with security, payment providers, and cross-functional teams while maintaining high-quality documentation and resilient payment workflows.

Develop, test, debug, and maintain game software for console, PC, and mobile platforms. Collaborate with artists, designers, and engineers to define and implement features, deliver systems to specification, provide ongoing technical support, and balance scope, quality, and development pace.

Lead design, automation, and operation of a scalable, secure Linux platform across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Build IaC, provisioning, patching, security hardening, and lifecycle automation. Deploy and operate cloud infrastructure, integrate hybrid environments, and collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform reliability and maintainability.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines processing terabytes of security intelligence on AWS. Develop Java software, integrate data sources, improve rating algorithms, and evolve cloud data warehouse infrastructure. Collaborate with data science, research, engineering, design, and product teams to deliver reliable cybersecurity insights. The role emphasizes scalable software development, data quality, continuous improvement, and strong communication.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of scalable backend systems and APIs supporting real-time applications at massive scale. Own the full engineering lifecycle, establish standards for reliability and testing, troubleshoot production issues, influence technical roadmaps, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep backend development, distributed cloud systems, system design, automated testing, and technical leadership experience.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Design, develop, test, and maintain enterprise-scale healthcare software using C#, .NET, RESTful APIs, SQL Server, and modern JavaScript frameworks. Build scalable features, optimize databases, address concurrency issues, debug complex systems, contribute to architecture decisions, and support the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with distributed cross-functional teams while helping modernize infrastructure through AWS migration, microservices, and cloud technologies.

Develop and maintain full-stack TypeScript applications using React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Build intuitive user interfaces, scalable APIs, and secure systems; collaborate on architecture, code reviews, testing, deployments, incident response, and infrastructure improvements. Mentor engineers, reduce technical debt, participate in Agile ceremonies, and support production systems in a remote-first environment.

Build and maintain resilient backend services and APIs for fraud detection, identity verification, and transaction monitoring. Integrate third-party risk/compliance platforms, partner with product and engineering teams, contribute to architecture decisions, and produce documentation to ensure secure, reliable systems at scale.

Lead the architecture, technical strategy, and roadmap for Microsoft's Windows ML compiler stack. Design high-performance compiler infrastructure, execution engines, optimization frameworks, and developer tools supporting CPU, GPU, and NPU workloads. Drive NPU enablement, graph optimization, scheduling, memory management, code generation, and hardware abstraction. Partner with silicon vendors and internal teams, influence AI hardware and platform strategy, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers developing on-device and generative AI capabilities.

Designs and delivers scalable, resilient, cloud-native infrastructure services for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating design documents, writing maintainable code, estimating work, monitoring services, responding to incidents, and improving availability, reliability, observability, efficiency, and performance at hyperscale.

Build and modernize Carrum Health’s data platform by developing Python and SQL pipelines, AWS services, Terraform infrastructure, dbt transformations, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Automate carrier integrations, reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and support Databricks adoption. Extend AI-assisted ingestion and classification using Bedrock and collaborate across engineering, analytics, data science, and client-facing teams. The role includes production ownership, incident response, technical documentation, and healthcare data platform development.

Build reusable interactive front-end components for a browser-based product, focusing on graphics rendering, performance, and engaging user experiences. Own features from concept through release, collaborate with product, design, and content teams, and maintain clean code that supports both human developers and AI tools. The role requires solving demanding browser-rendering challenges and designing clear APIs for people and automated systems.

Architect and re-engineer highly scalable, resilient backend data systems supporting patient services. Lead distributed systems strategy, make architectural decisions, improve performance and reliability, mentor engineers, establish operational practices, and collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape engineering and product direction.

Design, develop, and operate highly scalable and resilient Azure VM Scale Set cloud services. Own features from architecture through deployment and operations, solve distributed-systems challenges at hyperscale, and drive reliability, security, performance, disaster recovery, testing, monitoring, automation, and engineering best practices. Collaborate across teams to deliver platform capabilities and customer outcomes.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for scalable learning and skilling platforms. Designs architectures, writes and reviews production software, leads full software lifecycles, and applies Azure, AI, Copilot, Power Platform, and custom solutions. Responsibilities include secure integrations, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, production support, Responsible AI, reusable components, cross-team technical alignment, and engineering mentorship.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of Azure Kubernetes Service capabilities for AI workloads. Design secure, reliable, scalable distributed systems; coordinate engineering teams; define testing and deployment strategies; improve observability and operational readiness; investigate production issues; and mentor engineers while advancing engineering practices.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Build and operate Go backend services powering Virta’s quote-to-cash systems, including contracts, pricing, billing, subscriptions, invoices, claims, and reconciliation. Lead ambiguous projects from design through production, improve billing correctness, create self-service tools for finance and operations, collaborate with non-engineering stakeholders, apply AI to development workflows, and mentor engineers. Work across application and analytics layers using event-driven architectures, SQL, cloud infrastructure, React, and TypeScript.