Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and maintain full-stack features on a product-oriented team, owning product areas end-to-end. Ship customer-facing functionality, design and optimize data models and schemas, work with React state management, relational databases, cloud services, event streaming, caching, and AI tools. Collaborate cross-functionally, take high ownership, and occasionally support mission-critical work outside normal hours.

Build and scale the platform infrastructure to support mortgage origination: design cloud architecture, deploy and operate Kubernetes-based systems, manage databases, implement observability and incident response, and create internal developer tooling to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Design, build, scale, and operate a Kafka-compatible, object-storage-backed streaming platform. Own backend services, storage engine, multi-tenant control plane, transactions and multi-region features. Troubleshoot complex distributed systems, ensure operational readiness and SLAs, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute across the full stack including developer console UI.

As a Full-Stack Software Engineer, you'll build user-facing features, optimize GraphQL backend, and develop scalable systems, contributing significantly to the company's growth.

The Business Systems Integration Developer will design and maintain integrations between business systems, ensuring data integrity and operational efficiency. They will troubleshoot integration issues, partner with teams to document requirements, and create dashboards for performance tracking.

Build and maintain the core backend product: design and implement features, take ownership of end-to-end outcomes, iterate and fix bugs without a QA team, collaborate with product on scoping, and contribute to company culture and hiring.

Design, build, and operate high-scale full-stack platform products including GraphQL/REST APIs, embeddable UI components, and resilient asynchronous backend systems. Lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, drive reliability and observability, manage incidents, and deliver developer-focused platform features to support global content workflows.

Seeking a Software Engineer with 3+ years experience in software development, programming (Go, Java, C++, C#), and strong analytical skills.

Build and maintain cross-platform Electron desktop apps focused on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior. Implement desktop features (file access, notifications, auto-updates), integrate AI via backend APIs, optimize startup/memory, profile Electron overhead, manage large local state and message history, and ensure stability on macOS and Windows.

Build and ship end-to-end features across a TypeScript/Next.js monolith: dashboard, marketing site, billing, email, and AI-assisted tools. Own data models, APIs, third-party integrations, testing, observability, and production quality. Collaborate with the founder, review code, and improve engineering practices while delivering customer-facing features rapidly.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Build and maintain scalable backend microservices and developer-facing APIs, lead projects end-to-end, collaborate with product and engineering teams, design secure/versioned APIs, and manage cloud infrastructure using IaC.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design and develop microservices using a cloud-native tech stack, with a focus on financial services and secure systems.

Lead cross-stack adoption of modern toolchains, build and code-health practices, and performance workflows on NVIDIA CPU platforms. Integrate and validate compilers, linkers, cross-compilation, and CI; profile and optimize large codebases; build automation and playbooks; drive integration blockers to owners and communicate measurable before-and-after results to engineering teams and leadership.

Build, integrate, and stress-test full-stack applications and backend services that leverage advanced AI models. Develop production APIs, front-end features, databases, and cloud infrastructure; troubleshoot integrations; prototype rapidly and deliver high-quality code and documentation in fast-moving environments.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale SDN control and data plane software (OVS/OVN/OpenFlow) for NVIDIA AI Cloud. Build network orchestration and IaC (gRPC/REST, Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD/Flux), maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement observability/monitoring, drive upstream open-source contributions, and collaborate with SRE/DevOps to ensure production reliability and performance SLAs.

Build and own backend surfaces for Plane: APIs, data models, migrations, real-time sync (CDC/event streams), caching, and query performance. Instrument, monitor, and debug production incidents; collaborate with product and frontend teams across locations.

Build and maintain Plane's local-first browser client surfaces: large, virtualized workspaces, collaborative editor, offline/caching layers, and shared design-system components. Work cross-functionally with designers and backend engineers, extend sync and conflict-resolution behavior, optimize rendering performance, and triage cross-browser and self-hosted issues.

Own and build Node.js/TypeScript backend services that power integrations, importers, queues, and developer-facing OAuth surfaces. Design reliable queue/worker systems (retries, idempotency, backpressure), integrate third-party APIs, collaborate with Django engineers, and repair partial failures to ensure safe, auditable data migrations and integrations.

Provide expert-level technical support for web and mobile products, debug high-performance RESTful services, triage incidents, coordinate cross-team incident response, collaborate with Client Success, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to resolve complex issues and improve product reliability.

Lead end-to-end delivery of full-stack product and platform initiatives. Design and implement scalable frontend and backend systems, own production reliability and incidents, introduce pragmatic engineering practices, mentor engineers, and drive architecture and tooling decisions to balance speed and long-term maintainability.

Senior full‑stack developer responsible for designing, developing, testing, integrating, and maintaining front‑end and back‑end tools for program operations. Collaborate with teams, provide user training, attend/facilitate meetings, and follow Agile/SCRUM practices. Must use and maintain CI/CD and dev tools, work on‑site at a naval base, and hold required security clearance and US citizenship.

Collaborate with a distributed team to develop, maintain, and modernize the Landscape management software for Ubuntu, focusing on quality code and automated testing.

Develop and maintain Java applications for DoD systems, focusing on backend services, REST APIs, and microservices, while ensuring security and performance.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.