Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you'll develop a unified data platform, architect infrastructure, implement APIs, and mentor teams, focusing on data processing and reliability.

Design, build, and optimize Java-based data pipelines and integrations from SQL/NoSQL and cloud sources. Create BI dashboards and automated reports, design storage for structured/unstructured data, document processes, and follow production deployment best practices to deliver actionable analytics.

Design and build cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines and microservices, modernize on-prem systems to distributed services, implement authentication/authorization and data governance, ensure data quality and observability, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across a US Navy-focused defense program.

Design, implement, and operate large-scale, low-latency cloud data processing systems on OCI. Contribute across the software lifecycle, optimize data pipelines, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, and collaborate on design, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

Join a remote engineering team to write, test, and maintain code under senior guidance; participate in code reviews, standups, and sprint planning; debug and resolve application issues; and continuously learn new technologies and best practices.

Leads the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a high-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance strategy, building advanced AI-assisted coding features, driving cross-team technical roadmaps, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, optimizing context and token usage, reducing technical debt, and partnering with Product and Design. The role requires hands-on software development, technical leadership, developer-tools expertise, TypeScript and Node.js proficiency, large-scale performance optimization, AI workflow experience, and Eastern Time Zone availability.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead initiatives that enable production-like system testing across engineering. Build realistic test environments, workload generation and replay, fault-injection tooling, shared testing frameworks, and continuous or release validation. Partner with infrastructure, reliability, release, and product teams to convert incident learnings into durable test coverage. Mentor engineers, influence testing strategy, and improve observability, debuggability, and operational readiness.

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Build and operate managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud, including autoscaling systems, cloud integrations, control-plane and data-plane services, and multi-tenant execution infrastructure. Own architecture, APIs, reliability, observability, rollout strategies, incident response, and long-term maintenance. Lead technical design, cross-team platform initiatives, code reviews, and mentorship while ensuring secure, performant, and fault-tolerant customer-facing services.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed storage systems for Temporal Cloud. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLO ownership, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; and providing technical leadership through roadmap planning, RFCs, mentoring, and cross-team delivery.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable distributed observability systems for internal developers and customers. Lead the software development lifecycle, develop and review designs, ensure testing and production readiness, investigate reliability and performance issues, participate in on-call support, and collaborate across teams to improve Temporal’s infrastructure and platform capabilities.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable, multi-tenant cloud storage systems for workflow data. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, storage abstractions, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLOs, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; leading technical designs, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.

Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems supporting customer onboarding, account lifecycle management, billing, metering, marketplace integrations, revenue data synchronization, and customer-facing usage reporting. Build reliable distributed systems, data pipelines, and integrations while ensuring correctness, observability, compliance, and operational readiness. Partner with Finance, RevOps, Sales, Support, Product, and Engineering, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and improve customer and developer experiences.

Build and maintain Doowii's core product: front-end interfaces and UX for data querying, backend APIs and cloud infrastructure, real-time data interaction and optimized data models, ingestion pipelines (NiFi->Kafka->Iceberg->BigQuery), and model evaluation/LLM-driven features to deliver accurate, performant conversational analytics for education.

Design and deliver scalable control-plane and management services for Azure Storage at hyperscale. Lead architecture, reliability, and performance work for storage platforms that support AI workloads, adopt AI-assisted engineering practices, and own system health, incident response, and long-term technical roadmaps.

Design, build, ship, and own high-scale, user-facing product features across frontend, backend, and data systems. Define problems, scope and prioritize work, collaborate with Product, monitor production usage, debug incidents, improve reliability, review code, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong backend expertise alongside React proficiency and ownership from product discovery through long-term maintenance.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

The Open Source Engineer will expand LanceDB's integration with big data systems, manage dataset operations, and enhance open-source community efforts.

Leads software design, development, debugging, testing, deployment, and production support for web applications. Conducts code reviews, builds reusable code, improves legacy systems, monitors system health, optimizes performance, and responds to on-call incidents. Collaborates with engineering, product, design, customers, and vendors; mentors junior engineers; maintains development standards; and champions API-first development. Requires full-stack experience, cloud-native application deployment, database expertise, REST APIs, testing, and AI-assisted development workflows.

Develop and maintain high-scale JavaScript and TypeScript monetization solutions using Prebid.js, Prebid Server, and Google Ad Manager. Own the header bidding wrapper, integrate auction and ad-tech standards, optimize Core Web Vitals and client-side performance, operate Google Cloud services, review code, document architecture, and resolve production issues.

Lead frontend development for a satellite-data monitoring application serving defense and intelligence customers. Design and implement React and TypeScript features, guide frontend architecture, contribute to backend APIs, mentor engineers through reviews and technical discussions, and collaborate with product managers and designers. Own feature delivery from discovery through deployment while improving state management, data fetching, component design, testing, and frontend best practices.