Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead technical direction and deliver collision-free motion planning for humanoid robots. Design, implement, test, and deploy trajectory optimization, MPC, and sample-based planners; architect modular planning systems integrated with perception, state estimation, and control; develop algorithms robust to uncertainty; and provide cross-team technical leadership and mentorship.

The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain solutions for transit agencies, focusing on IoT devices and cloud services, ensuring reliable communication and device management.

The Principal Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives, align cross-functional teams, establish standards, and guide multiple engineering teams towards strategic objectives, driving large-scale improvements in business outcomes.

The role involves owning the email channel's infrastructure, developing frontend experiences, designing backend systems, and ensuring deliverability in a cloud-native environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and build distributed systems in Go, collaborate across teams, and ensure performance and reliability at scale.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will design and maintain financial services, develop APIs, improve operations, and mentor engineers within a fintech startup.

Lead design and implementation of the payment integrations platform (APIs, SDKs, embedded web), build scalable payment rails (ACH), drive technical roadmap, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and improve operations via automation, tooling, and observability.

Design, build, and operate backend platform services and infrastructure, owning features end-to-end from design through production. Improve reliability, performance, and scalability across services and the data layer, investigate and resolve production incidents, and convert fixes into durable improvements. Perform database work as needed (query/index tuning, sharding, capacity planning) and collaborate with SRE and application teams to meet zero-downtime SLAs. Mentor peers and raise engineering quality through reviews and best practices.

The role involves designing and implementing SaaS solutions, leading development teams, ensuring high software engineering standards, and maintaining system performance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design modern scalable platforms, focusing on front-end and back-end development using VueJS/ReactJS and C# microservices, while integrating with AWS and modern data warehouses.

Lead Android-first development of growth experiments and features, using AI-native workflows to design, implement, instrument, and analyze A/B tests. Ship performant, reliable Android experiences at scale, mentor teammates, participate in on-call, and codify AI-native engineering playbooks for broader adoption.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead technical execution across teams, design microservices, improve cloud deployments, and mentor engineers while focusing on architecture and delivery.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop software for automated mobile application analysis, lead implementation decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead high-impact initiatives and architect enterprise-grade APIs while mentoring engineers. Collaborate across teams to influence technical strategy and scale platform architecture.

Design, build, and lead scalable API and platform features. Mentor junior engineers and drive technical initiatives from design to delivery.

Design, develop, test, and own SDKs and REST APIs for a next-generation analytics platform. Collaborate with Product Management, contribute to DevOps and quality frameworks, perform code reviews, and mentor teammates to deliver performant, well-tested software.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead technical initiatives, design scalable systems using Node.js and AWS, mentor engineers, and improve platform reliability.

As a Senior Software Engineer at MNTN, you'll design and operate backend systems for ad delivery, ensuring high performance and reliability. You'll work with Java, Kotlin, and Scala to handle high-throughput services and contribute to architectural decisions while improving system efficiency.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will enhance the Integrations platform for managing large data streams, collaborating with teams, and optimizing connectors.

The Staff Software Engineer will build and maintain GoGuardian's Safety product suite, lead architectural decisions, mentor developers, and champion AI adoption in engineering workflows.

Lead architecture and implementation of Chainguard Repository: design, build, and operate high-availability backend services in Go that serve package registries and APIs; improve scalability, reliability, observability, and load testing; drive technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.

Lead design and build of a 0-1 Identity Graph platform for real-time identity resolution. Own architecture, implement high-performance synchronous read models, build data pipelines, enforce PII privacy boundaries, ensure production resilience and observability, and mentor engineering teams while aligning cross-team stakeholders.

Lead technical initiatives to design and build scalable, high-performance batch and real-time data pipelines and microservices. Use Big Data tools (Spark, Kafka, EMR, S3) and AWS services to ingest, store, transform, and query large datasets. Maintain and optimize systems, perform code reviews, mentor engineers, implement security and data governance, and collaborate with product teams in an Agile environment to deliver reliable production software.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop the PBM adjudication platform, mentor junior engineers, and maintain production systems using various technologies.

Build and own backend identity APIs and core authentication flows for scale. Partner with product and engineering leadership, author design docs, improve production resilience and observability, handle incident response and on‑call, collaborate across teams, and mentor other engineers.