Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design and build scalable, maintainable Android client infrastructure and product experiences using Kotlin and modern Android tooling. Define best practices, write automated tests, improve app architecture (MVVM, unidirectional state), collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and lead high-impact projects to improve performance, quality, and developer velocity across the Netflix Android app.

Design, build, deploy, and operate full-stack internal workforce solutions. Lead architecture, integrations, and responsive React frontends with secure REST/GraphQL backends, apply AI/GenAI responsibly, and collaborate across teams to improve productivity and reliability.

Design, implement, and maintain high-performance cloud gaming software stacks across the application pipeline, including hardware-accelerated video/audio/data processing, media encoding/decoding, graphics APIs, and network transport. Optimize local and end-to-end system performance, work across complex codebases and hardware platforms, collaborate across teams, and take ownership from conception to production.

Build and deliver consumer-facing TV application features and core client/UI capabilities. Design, architect, debug, test, and document performant, maintainable code; partner with designers, product, and cross-functional teams to componentize abstractions and improve developer experience and stability for large-scale systems.

Develop, configure, integrate, and sustain Windows-based applications and interfaces. Support API and third-party integrations, deployment, testing, troubleshooting, and operational support to enable interoperability between sensors, communications, security platforms, and government infrastructure.

Build and maintain internal Python platform libraries and tooling to improve developer experience. Drive runtime, dependency, testing, delivery, monitoring, and performance optimization for Python services (including GPU-enabled workloads). Collaborate cross-functionally to define an opinionated SDLC, support on-call rotations, and balance modern practices with risk-aware change. Enable scalable, low-latency distributed systems and provide AI/ML-facing platform capabilities.

Design, build, and operate scalable, resilient distributed systems for Netflix's Open Connect CDN. Develop cloud services, steering algorithms, deployment automation, data pipelines, and operational tooling to optimize quality-of-experience, hardware utilization, and cost efficiency while enabling real-time adaptation and reliable production operations.

Design, build, deploy, and operate internal employee-facing products and integrations. Lead significant projects end-to-end, apply GenAI/LLMs to features, make architectural decisions, improve system reliability and maintainability, and mentor other engineers.

Technical lead for a Context Enablement pod building the context layer for coding agents: plugins, Dev Profiles, and a curated knowledge system (NECP). Define technical strategy, partner with platform teams, ship incremental production work, measure adoption, and mentor a team of engineers to improve developer productivity with agent-enabled tools.

Design and build high-volume, low-latency Conversion APIs and audience onboarding systems to ingest consented advertiser events (server-to-server, pixel, batch). Develop streaming and batch pipelines (Kafka, Flink), enable deduplicated identity-enriched datasets for retargeting, optimization, measurement, and reporting while ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance. Collaborate cross-functionally and provide technical leadership.

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable cloud-native microservices and APIs (Java/Spring Boot) on AWS/GCP and Kubernetes. Build event-driven systems with Kafka, ensure reliability via TDD, CI/CD, monitoring, and performance testing, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver production services at global scale.

The role involves building core infrastructure for orchestrating intelligent agents, defining platform primitives, and ensuring systems scale and reliability. Collaboration with internal teams and end-to-end system ownership are essential.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Cash App Banking team, you will lead the design, execution, and delivery of banking features, collaborating across teams to enhance the user experience.

Join the MongoDB Server Query Optimization team to build a distributed open-source query optimizer, focusing on enhancing query performance and robustness. Responsibilities include innovation in flexible schema databases, mentoring team members, and contributing to the technical roadmap based on extensive experience in the database domain.

Design and develop backend services and APIs for identity resolution, optimize event-driven systems, and enhance system reliability. Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions.

As a Lead Software Engineer, you'll design and develop GenAI platforms, integrate LLMs, mentor engineers, and solve technical challenges for scalable solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Babylist, you will develop systems for a high-volume marketplace, collaborating on advertising, commerce features, and infrastructure while leading projects and improving processes with AI-driven methodologies.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Responsible for building new products, updating existing offerings, leading projects, mentoring, and ensuring quality and alignment in technical implementation. Collaborate with teams to drive projects from ideation to production.

First engineering hire to build end-to-end features across React frontends and C#/.NET (and Python) backends, work with PostgreSQL and MongoDB, integrate third-party automotive APIs, use agentic AI coding tools, and collaborate on architecture and engineering culture.

Lead end-to-end full-stack development across React frontends and compiled backends, influence architecture and data modeling, integrate third-party dealership APIs, use AI-assisted coding tools daily, set engineering standards, ship production features to live dealership users, and mentor junior engineers.

The Senior Back-End Software Engineer designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend systems while taking ownership of the software development lifecycle.

The Software Engineer will build and own features for the AI-driven matching and screening platform, focusing on data structuring and full-stack development. Collaboration with users and maintaining high quality through testing is essential.

The role involves building and scaling backend services, designing APIs, optimizing database performance, and communicating with customers to improve product quality.