Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads software design, architecture, development, testing, deployments, production support, and technical debt reduction for WEX Health applications. Mentors engineers, coordinates cross-functional delivery, reviews code, and guides feature lifecycles. Uses AI-assisted development practices, including GitHub SpecKit, model selection, MCP integration, prompt engineering, automated testing, refactoring, and governance of AI-generated code. Requires strong C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL, DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, communication, and leadership skills.

Lead the technical direction of Attentive’s compute and networking platform. Build reusable AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes systems, APIs, and self-service tools while improving reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and developer productivity. Own complex cross-team initiatives from design through production, diagnose sophisticated infrastructure issues, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, and establish effective AI-assisted development practices.

Work with customers and cross-functional teams to design, build, and deliver cloud-based solutions. Lead design, identify dependencies, mentor engineers, act as DRI and on-call, and improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance. Contribute to open-source assets and collaborate with Microsoft product teams to produce extensible, maintainable code and scalable solution patterns.

Lead architecture and development of scalable software solutions for the Seller Platform. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, research emerging technologies, and solve complex technical challenges. The role requires strong Java and Ruby experience, distributed systems expertise, software architecture knowledge, and proficiency with modern AI coding tools.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain secure cloud-native applications using Python, React, Azure, REST APIs, and microservices. Build and integrate AI capabilities including LLMs, RAG, agentic workflows, and Azure OpenAI services. Apply CI/CD, observability, secure SDLC, and responsible AI practices. Collaborate with product, architecture, UX, DevOps, and security teams, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, review code, and influence technical direction in an agile environment.

Build and evolve scalable systems that capture, ingest, and process real-time and recorded audio/video streams from telephony and meeting platforms. Design distributed media pipelines optimized for reliability, performance, and low latency; provide technical leadership and mentorship; solve complex systems problems; implement testing and quality practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; and maintain security and compliance standards.

Build and ship product features incorporating machine intelligence and large language models. Architect scalable AI-powered functionality, conversational agent experiences, data pipelines, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with subject-matter experts and designers, make pragmatic technical decisions, and mentor teammates on data and AI practices. The role requires hands-on server-side web development, flexible scripting skills, strong system design judgment, and experience delivering AI-enabled products in a startup environment.

Design and implement scalable first-mile networking solutions for Microsoft 365 Substrate and COSMIC. Drive design, dependency identification, coding, optimization, debugging, and on-call monitoring. Analyze production telemetry to improve reliability, performance, and observability. Act as a DRI, lead design and release plans, and collaborate with stakeholders to meet product requirements at global scale.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Owns delivery of backend money movement and card ledger systems, leading engineers through complex problems and ambiguity. Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering stakeholders; defines scalable technical solutions; supports system availability, monitoring, on-call operations, code quality, and engineering standards. The role also includes mentoring and developing team talent while building highly available distributed systems for Affirm’s financial products.

Lead design and implementation of Azure full‑stack, scalable skilling platform features. Drive CI/CD, reliability, automation, and AI/LLM-enabled capabilities. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering best practices, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and improve test automation and observability for enterprise-scale services.

Own and evolve Thrive Global’s enterprise identity platform, including sign-up, authentication, authorization, user identity management, and integrations with enterprise identity providers. Independently deliver complex projects, partner with Product and stakeholders, maintain reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and ensure secure, scalable systems using modern identity protocols and credential-management practices.

Design and build automation platforms, validation systems, telemetry pipelines, performance frameworks, and diagnostic tools for qualifying next-generation Azure Storage hardware. Investigate distributed software, hardware, firmware, networking, and operating-system issues; analyze performance data; improve scalability and reliability; and contribute to technical architecture across Azure Storage infrastructure.

Build and operate software automation for large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. Responsibilities include bare-metal provisioning, hardware validation, firmware and software upgrades, cluster lifecycle management, BMC and Redfish tooling, failure diagnosis, observability, incident response, and automated repair. The role supports NVL72 systems, BlueField DPUs, Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud or on-premises environments while coordinating across hardware, networking, platform, data center, and partner teams.

Lead the architecture, development, and evolution of Keeper Commander, including Python and .NET SDKs, CLI tooling, APIs, and developer automation. Remain hands-on with coding, debugging, architecture, integrations, security, testing, and release engineering while mentoring a small team. Partner with Product, QA, and Security teams, support the open-source ecosystem, improve developer experience, and guide technical strategy for enterprise and DevOps integrations.

Designs and implements protocols and features for highly scalable distributed block storage, focusing on durability, availability, performance, reliability, and observability. Responsibilities include coding, optimization, debugging, design documentation, stakeholder collaboration, incident response, on-call operations, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in C or C++, distributed systems, cloud backend development, multithreaded programming, and large-scale software delivery.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the Linux community.

Own and develop safety-critical firmware for autonomous transit vehicles, including RTOS applications, communication architectures, bootloaders, drivers, board bring-up, diagnostics, and automated testing. Lead cross-functional embedded projects, optimize performance on resource-constrained platforms, establish engineering standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineers. The role requires expert C or C++, embedded systems experience, safety-critical development, and typically seven or more years of production embedded software experience.

Build and maintain NVIDIA’s Kubernetes runtime and release systems for GPU clusters across public clouds and specialized providers. Responsibilities include developing Go controllers and APIs, automating installation and upgrades, creating validation pipelines, integrating new GPU hardware and cloud providers, allocating GPU capacity, diagnosing complex failures, and collaborating across engineering teams to deliver reliable cluster software at scale.

Lead the technical vision and architecture for scalable, secure, high-performance distributed systems. Provide engineering leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance while driving reliability, automation, CI/CD, security, performance optimization, and technical strategy. Investigate emerging technologies, oversee complex problem-solving, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with product and business stakeholders to align technology roadmaps with organizational goals.

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.

Develop, test, deploy, maintain, and optimize software solutions using Microsoft technologies and Azure cloud services. Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, security, infrastructure, product, and support teams throughout the software development lifecycle. Modernize legacy applications, build REST APIs, implement automated testing, ensure PCI and HIPAA compliance, document systems, manage releases, and support production troubleshooting, monitoring, performance, and reliability.

Design, implement, optimize, and operate highly available distributed data streaming platforms across FedRAMP environments. Develop concurrent, low-latency software using C, C++, Go, or Java; support full-stack data delivery; troubleshoot complex network and distributed-system issues; and provide technical guidance through code reviews and mentoring.

Own end-to-end architecture and implementation quality for an accounting and payments pod. Lead migration of billing processing to Go worker routines, build a reusable invoicing SDK with Storybook, define testing strategies, reduce technical debt, mentor engineers, participate in customer discovery, and promote AI-assisted development. The role requires strong backend, frontend, database, architectural, and mentoring experience in a fully remote product-led environment.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.