Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop new products and improve engineering infrastructure while taking ownership of product deliverables and enhancing technical architecture.

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, build, and architect stablecoin and crypto infrastructure; integrate DEXs, DeFi protocols, and wallet providers; develop smart contract interactions; expand crypto product functionality and asset selection; collaborate cross-functionally; establish crypto development standards and ensure security and reliability for large-scale user experiences.

Build and maintain backend services and infrastructure to support core ML/AI product features. Design scalable, resilient, high-performance systems, implement production REST APIs, deploy and manage applications (Docker/Kubernetes), and collaborate cross-functionally while coding daily.

Design, build, and operate hyperscale Azure availability and control-plane services to achieve high VM SLAs. Lead architecture, author designs, implement reliable code, run livesite as DRI, and integrate predictive ML/AI models and generative AI for diagnostics and automated root-cause analysis.

Design, implement, and operate low-level components of Azure Storage distributed file systems. Define requirements, produce designs, write and reuse high-quality code, break down work, estimate tasks, and act as an on-call DRI to monitor and restore services. Drive reliability, performance, observability, and scalability improvements.

Design and develop software to onboard hardware accelerators and optimize storage datapaths for Azure Storage. Drive design, debugging, performance tuning, operations, and cross-team collaboration across research, compute, and storage to improve throughput, scale, reliability, and observability.

Lead architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-native TFDM applications. Drive DevOps/GitOps CI/CD pipelines, containerization (OpenShift/Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code, AI-assisted development, system modernization, troubleshooting, mentoring, and executive briefings to support deployment, automation, reliability, and security.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and orchestration workflows for claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, manage cloud infrastructure (AWS), and implement durable workflows (Temporal) while ensuring secure, reliable, maintainable systems. Collaborate with product, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver production-grade solutions.

Design and build monitoring, telemetry, and data pipelines to operate flagship supercomputers at scale. Diagnose and troubleshoot GPU hardware, networking, datacenter and software stack issues, implement systemic mitigations, improve observability, and drive reliability and performance improvements through incident reviews and tooling.

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.

Design, implement, and operate highly scalable Azure cloud services and full‑stack features for Compute Manager. Own design, coding, debugging, reliability, and on‑call operations as a DRI. Collaborate across teams to improve availability, performance, observability, and run distributed systems at hyperscale.

Lead architecture and implementation of large-scale, elastic Pub/Sub and messaging services. Define scalable, reliable designs, mentor engineers, drive CI/CD and testing strategies, manage incidents, partner with PMs/EMs, and advance AI tooling across the SDLC to enable real-time analytics and integrations.

Design, build, and operate high-performance Places/Search API services; drive architecture and scalability decisions; improve code quality and operational standards; mentor engineers; run experiments and telemetry-driven analysis; participate in feature delivery, on-call rotation, and customer-facing collaboration with automotive and mapping partners.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop systems for processing communication data, ensure software quality, provide technical leadership, and solve complex problems in real-time media systems.

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.

Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and services. Improve performance, reliability, and deployments; operate production systems (incident response rotation); conduct code reviews; mentor engineers; collaborate with product, sales, and customers.

Lead product and technical discovery for a new initiative, build prototypes and end-to-end MVPs, define metrics and decision processes, rightsize architecture for iteration and integrations, and engage customers for feedback while coordinating external PM/design/business stakeholders.

Lead backend development and operate services end-to-end: design, implement, deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot cloud-based back-end systems. Participate in on-call rotation, collaborate with frontend, CloudEng, and product teams, conduct code and security/privacy reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, write, and execute automated tests (functional, performance, scalability, durability); build and maintain test frameworks; create integration and regression test cases; analyze failures, troubleshoot issues, measure test coverage, and collaborate with product and software engineers to improve software quality.

Build and maintain user-facing eCommerce features and scalable backend services/APIs. Collaborate on architecture, design reviews, and product planning; optimize performance and implement engineering best practices; mentor teammates and communicate across product, design, and engineering.

The Senior Software Engineer will modernize USPS shipping technology, refactor legacy systems for cloud integration, and develop high-performance services using Go, while collaborating with teams and addressing production challenges.

Design and implement a software platform that validates and accepts new hardware racks into Microsoft datacenters. Own features end-to-end, model device types and workflows, improve concurrency, reliability, observability, and automation, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, networking, manufacturing, and datacenter teams to resolve system-level issues.

Design, develop, and maintain end-user applications; participate in full SDLC, write technical specifications, perform code analysis and reviews, mentor engineers, produce architecture and design artifacts, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve performance, scalability, and maintainability.

The Staff Software Engineer will develop customer-facing web applications, lead technical design, improve system performance, and mentor other engineers while exploring new technologies. The role focuses on enhancing healthcare outcomes through innovation.