Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead end-to-end design, development, and delivery of full‑stack features; drive architecture and code reviews; coordinate engineering work, write design docs and tests, and participate in Agile ceremonies. Must have blockchain/crypto experience.

Leads architecture and development of scalable Node.js SaaS applications and data products. Responsibilities include designing systems, translating stakeholder needs into technical backlogs, writing user stories, coordinating architecture decisions, supporting product planning, improving business processes, and mentoring engineers. The role also incorporates AI-assisted development, code review agents, LLM APIs, agentic workflows, and generative AI tools.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Own the architecture and technical strategy for Square’s go-to-market technology stack. Build and operate production AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations that improve sales productivity. Lead complex technical initiatives, establish AI reliability and security guardrails, define evaluation metrics, and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Partner with Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and remaining hands-on across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Azure Storage geo-replication, data protection, failover orchestration, and business continuity. Drive cross-team delivery, operational excellence, telemetry, automation, AI-assisted operations, and represent the team in executive and customer engagements.

Design, build, and own scalable multi-tenant SaaS applications across frontend, backend, and data layers. Improve system architecture, performance, reliability, and testing practices. Integrate AI-assisted tools, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and collaborate with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, production-grade software.

Lead integration-domain architecture and delivery for an AI-driven cybersecurity platform. Design and operate production microservices integrating REST, GraphQL, streaming, MCP, and LLM-based services. Make system architecture and API decisions, mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, improve engineering rigor, and champion AI-assisted development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

Build and own full-stack features for a global peer-to-peer learning platform. Responsibilities include defining problems with users and stakeholders, developing prototypes and experiments, writing maintainable code, coordinating contributions, deploying products, and improving existing systems. The engineer will also participate in code reviews, pair programming, product ideation, and technical decisions balancing speed, quality, safety, and user experience.

Design, build, operate, and debug scalable Java platform services running on AWS. Develop authentication, data-store connectivity, and access-control systems for enterprise customers. Define non-functional requirements and SLOs, resolve production issues, collaborate on large-scale features, improve engineering processes, and promote platform and security best practices through mentorship and documentation.

The Senior SDET will design and execute automated and manual tests across smoke, regression, integration, and performance testing. Responsibilities include building regression automation, documenting test behavior and results, identifying defects and quality risks, maintaining GitHub repositories and scripts, collaborating throughout the software development lifecycle, incorporating customer feedback, supporting planning and estimations, and participating in on-call rotations.

Designs, develops, and leads scalable healthcare software solutions involving transaction processing, interoperability standards, integrations, and data platforms. Provides hands-on engineering, architectural leadership, quality ownership, risk management, technical mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires building high-performance cloud-based SaaS solutions using microservices and serverless architectures, while guiding engineering strategy and ensuring secure, reliable delivery.

Design and build complex customer-facing product features, own technical decisions, contribute to architecture and technical direction, uphold code quality, mentor engineers, and support production incidents. The role collaborates closely with Product and Design across a modern web stack including React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, relational databases, and Microsoft Azure.

Lead development of Device OS platform infrastructure connecting industrial machines and applications to Apkudo. Own integration services, APIs, software and model deployment, staged rollouts, rollback, fleet monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, and operator-facing control surfaces. Partner with robotics, AI, design, and operations teams to create reliable interfaces and deployment workflows for heterogeneous distributed devices.

Build and own Android growth and monetization experiments across subscriptions, advertising, purchases, and upgrade flows. Partner with product, design, data science, and analytics to instrument experiments, evaluate results, and ship reliable experiences at consumer scale. Use AI-native workflows for specification, coding, testing, and review; improve mobile engineering practices; contribute to architecture and code reviews; participate in on-call; and mentor engineers.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Develop and ship features for mobile games across Unity/C# clients and Go backend services. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Art, troubleshoot live-product issues, improve code quality, maintain build and content pipelines, conduct testing and code reviews, support releases, and investigate regressions. The role requires ownership from implementation through production with limited supervision.

Design, build, and maintain software using Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, CQRS, and Event Sourcing. Use Cursor and Claude to plan, write, refactor, and test code. Collaborate with small teams, product owners, clients, and engineers to solve business problems, translate requirements into maintainable systems, and mentor teammates on architecture and agentic development workflows.

Leads architecture and development of Trellix’s high-throughput cloud threat detection platform. Designs microservices, asynchronous submission pipelines, sandbox execution systems, full-stack analyst interfaces, secure AWS infrastructure, identity integrations, telemetry pipelines, and compliant multi-region architectures. Owns infrastructure as code, observability, production reliability, security practices, technical documentation, incident response, and SLA commitments while integrating AI-assisted development tools.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

Designs, develops, documents, tests, and maintains scalable backend services. Breaks complex product requirements into reliable solutions, emphasizing performance, error handling, logging, and edge cases. Provides system design expertise, advocates for architectural decisions, and mentors teammates through technical guidance and code reviews. Requires extensive backend experience with modern programming languages, REST APIs, domain-driven design, microservices, and Agile Scrum practices.

Design and deliver scalable full-stack enterprise applications using Node.js and Vue.js. Lead architecture and technical design, integrate AI/ML capabilities, optimize development with AI-assisted tools, contribute to cloud deployments and CI/CD, and ensure security, observability, performance, and maintainability. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with product, data, and AI teams.

Lead hands-on software engineering and architecture across multiple teams, designing and delivering Angular and .NET applications, APIs, integrations, cloud solutions, and reusable engineering platforms. Modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot production issues, strengthen CI/CD and testing, and mentor engineers. Establish practical AI-assisted development practices and customer-facing AI capabilities with appropriate security, validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Own and evolve scalable distributed systems, REST APIs, backend services, and core product areas. Design solutions, improve resilience, reduce technical debt, and drive modularization. Use AI-first and agentic development practices, evaluate emerging AI tools, and help integrate AI across engineering workflows. Collaborate asynchronously with product, data, and go-to-market teams while improving engineering tools, processes, and system reliability.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers while contributing hands-on to complex features. Define architecture, drive development best practices, conduct code reviews, coordinate cross-functional requirements, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality ecommerce marketplace software.

Provide technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, designing and implementing reliable data migration, CDC, APIs, and distributed systems. Lead major architectural initiatives, solve data consistency and performance challenges, improve observability and operational readiness, investigate incidents, mentor engineers, and partner with product, support, solutions, and customers. Remain hands-on while advancing testing, documentation, release practices, and AI-assisted migration capabilities.