Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead end-to-end design, development, and quality of cloud-based enterprise software solutions for caregivers. Define quality criteria, estimate costs, manage risks and engineering processes, integrate systems, and act as technical leader across large, complex projects.

Lead the development of a search and data integration platform, ensuring architecture, integration, and delivery of complex software systems in a safety-focused environment.

Develop and manage control plane services for Flink, focusing on orchestration and reliability. Responsibilities include code quality, mentoring, and communication across teams.

Design and build secure, scalable cloud-native, AI-enabled applications and microservices for utilities. Lead architecture, translate requirements, develop APIs and data-driven solutions, mentor engineers, and ensure software quality and delivery.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end, accessible, secure full-stack software for a federal health/civilian agency. Build Section 508-compliant UIs, backend APIs, and services; follow API-first, CI/CD, automated testing, and security best practices; identify and remediate technical debt; mentor engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, performant government software.

Design, configure, and administer the Splunk observability platform for enterprise-scale log and event ingestion. Optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and retention; integrate Splunk with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), CI/CD and deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible), and enterprise systems (ServiceNow, PagerDuty). Implement automation using Python/Bash, manage Splunk apps/roles, and support observability and APM initiatives while collaborating within SAFe using Jira and Confluence.

Lead architecture and evolution of enterprise observability platforms (APM, infrastructure monitoring, session replay, log analytics). Define integration patterns, telemetry standards, and governance. Partner with Engineering, SRE, Product, and Infrastructure to embed observability best practices, evaluate new technologies (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, AI-driven observability), drive platform standardization, and manage vendor relationships to improve MTTD/MTTR and system reliability.

Build polished, maintainable React-based front-end product experiences; evolve front-end architecture and component patterns; translate ambiguous product ideas into executable plans; collaborate with product and design; prioritize UX quality, testing, and pragmatic tradeoffs; mentor and raise team effectiveness at the Staff level.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you'll architect and build data pipelines, champion small data strategies, mentor teams, and ensure operational excellence in data workflows.

Lead design and implementation of batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes daily. Provide technical leadership on the Streamloader team, collaborate with architects, engineers, product, sales, and customers, and develop high-performance distributed software in C++ and/or Java while ensuring system reliability and customer success.

Lead Platform Engineer to design and evolve Subaru.com using Java, AEM, and AWS. Lead architecture and technical delivery, mentor teams, run design and code reviews, enforce quality, and build scalable web applications and services integrating front-end, mobile, and third-party clients.

Develop and maintain data lake platforms, write reliable code for data pipelines, and collaborate with senior engineers on design and architecture.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with teams to build tools enhancing healthcare, drive business outcomes, and adopt AI in development.

Lead design, development, and support of enterprise backend integrations. Build and enhance REST and SOAP APIs, evolve data/service models, develop scalable integration components, troubleshoot production issues, influence architecture, mentor engineers, perform design/code reviews, and collaborate with vendors and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable integrations.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will create human-in-the-loop and fan-in-the-loop interfaces for AI-driven sports statistics, collaborating with teams to integrate AI models and build dynamic fan experiences across platforms.

Build and maintain the GG App across Windows, macOS, and iOS including installers, background services, auto-update systems, enterprise deployment paths, health reporting, AWS backend, and documentation. Lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and champion AI adoption and automation across engineering.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement core services and systems, provide technical leadership, and mentor engineers while focusing on scalable, high-performance software development.

Design, build, and operate managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud: autoscaling, multi-tenant safety, multi-cloud integrations, secure cross-account execution, observability (SLOs, tracing/metrics), and ship end-to-end APIs with strong operational ownership and mentorship.

Lead architecture and development of large-scale VM management and monitoring platforms for Azure. Provide technical leadership, design documentation, debugging, performance tuning, operational excellence, mentoring, on-call monitoring, and adoption of AI-assisted workflows to improve reliability, availability, security, and observability across Windows and Linux environments.

Lead end-to-end development of production web application features using Python and Next.js/TypeScript. Drive system design, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and automated testing. Champion safe AI-assisted development and agentic coding workflows, build shared libraries and developer tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, multi-tenant healthcare SaaS capabilities.

Design, implement, and optimize Elasticsearch core storage and query engine components for observability workloads. Drive architectural improvements, resolve performance bottlenecks in indexing and serialization, optimize data layouts for object storage, lead cross-organizational initiatives, mentor engineers, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java in a distributed team.

Lead design and modernization of a high-throughput, low-latency event streaming platform. Define streaming architecture, build developer tooling and observability, solve distributed-systems problems (deduping, rate limiting, delayed delivery), and partner across product, data, and infra teams to enable scalable, reliable real-time features.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native services powering millions of devices. Architect solutions for scalability and integration, own full service lifecycle in Kubernetes, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and drive engineering best practices across cross-functional teams.

Lead development of scalable test strategy and infrastructure across legacy and microapp platforms. Build end-to-end UI automation, API and contract tests, integrate suites into CI/CD, design performance/load tests, maintain test environments, and champion quality practices while partnering with engineering and product teams.

Drive architecture and technical vision for Elasticsearch core storage and query engine. Lead performance and storage-efficiency improvements, design indexing/serialization/data layouts, mentor engineers, coordinate cross-organizational initiatives, triage community issues, and write idiomatic modern Java for logs and metrics workloads.