Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Leads application engineering for an AI-powered email product, owning backend, mobile, and desktop architecture. Designs reliable AI workflows with orchestration, state management, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling; builds APIs connecting AI capabilities to product experiences; and leads a senior engineering team through architectural decisions, reviews, mentorship, and production excellence. Partners with ML leadership to ship scalable, observable, secure, and reliable systems while balancing latency, cost, user experience, and maintainability.

Lead the architecture and development of reliable AI-powered email applications across backend, mobile, and desktop platforms. Design APIs and workflow systems supporting orchestration, state, tool use, retries, fallbacks, and failure handling. Lead a small senior engineering team, make architectural trade-offs, mentor engineers, and establish strong production practices including observability, monitoring, testing, scalability, security, and operational excellence. Partner with ML leadership to deliver robust, high-quality product experiences.

Lead the design and development of mission-relevant software, build backend services and APIs, mentor engineers, and support technical demos.

Design, develop, optimize, and debug ultra low-latency C++ streaming systems and media pipelines (WebRTC, GStreamer, RTP). Analyze performance across CPU, memory, networking, and scheduling. Integrate streaming software with platform services across Windows, Linux, QNX, and embedded platforms. Define KPIs for networking and streaming quality and troubleshoot across software, OS, platform, and hardware boundaries.

The role involves leading initiatives for vector search in Elasticsearch, enhancing features, resolving bugs, and contributing to community engagements in a distributed team setting. A strong background in vector similarity and Java is crucial.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major software products and systems. Design scalable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; drive architecture decisions; solve production issues; improve testing, security, observability, and development practices; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across distributed international teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; drives critical initiatives; and mentors engineers across teams.

Owns technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; leads critical initiatives from design through production; improves engineering quality through testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentors engineers across teams.

Design, develop, modify, test, and maintain full-stack software applications. Engineers will understand product areas, codebases, and systems; write high-quality, tested code; analyze data; solve complex problems; collaborate with product and engineering teams; conduct design and code reviews; and mentor junior developers while delivering customer-focused products.

Own and evolve Voltus’s infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes and Nomad workloads, AWS architecture, identity and secrets, stateful systems, observability, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and developer tooling. Lead business-critical migrations with minimal downtime, establish reliable deployment and rollback practices, mentor engineers, participate in on-call, and build secure infrastructure supporting AI-assisted development.

Lead full-stack growth engineering across eligibility, identity, access, client configuration, and reporting systems. Build Python-based GraphQL and REST APIs, React and React Native experiences, scalable database systems, and secure HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant solutions. Own ambiguous cross-domain technical projects, write RFCs, coordinate roadmap delivery, mentor engineers, contribute to engineering strategy, and participate in on-call operations and remediation.

Build and operate accessible, high-performance member-facing web applications using a front-end-first full-stack approach. Contribute to APIs, backend services, data flows, integrations, frontend architecture, testing, observability, and performance improvements. Own projects from concept through production, collaborate with Product, Design, Data, and Clinical teams, improve developer experience, support AI-assisted coding practices, participate in technical reviews and incident follow-up, and mentor engineers.

Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for Nango’s open-source developer infrastructure platform. Build APIs, SDKs, UIs, and runtime systems, optimize performance and reliability, solve integration challenges with customers, shape the roadmap, and maintain the open-source repository. The role requires strong ownership, product thinking, developer empathy, communication, and autonomy in a remote-first startup environment.

Develop and maintain software in an agile, test-driven environment using pair programming. Lead technical decisions involving application and data model design, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product and design, and ensure application stability and performance. Participate in on-call support and improve system reliability. Use AI developer tools to accelerate development and improve code quality.

The role involves building user-facing features, collaborating with product and design teams, and ensuring high-quality product delivery while optimizing performance across systems.

The Software Engineer will scale and optimize the platform's infrastructure, manage data layers, and enhance system operations to support growing LLM requests.

As a Software Engineer at OnePay, you will develop and implement features, build scalable products, and work closely with teams to enhance customer experiences.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain features using AI-assisted tools, collaborate with teams, and enhance software solutions for better user insights.

Develop, integrate, and test spacecraft flight software across the full lifecycle. Implement and upgrade cFS-based applications, perform unit-to-platform verification in simulation and HIL/FlatSat environments, support integration with hardware and payloads, and participate in anomaly resolution, mission operations support, and proposal activities.

Build and operate Sourcegraph Cloud platform: develop inter-cloud connectivity, control plane orchestration, expose infrastructure APIs, debug and patch upstream IaC dependencies, ensure reliability and participate in on-call rotation to meet SLAs.

Develop and optimize distributed systems for syncing customer data, focus on scalability, reliability, and performance for global clients.

Own the automated testing strategy and frameworks across the company’s UI and service-oriented systems. Build risk-weighted coverage dashboards, API-based integration tests, CI quality guardrails, and AI-assisted testing workflows using Claude and MCP tooling. Coach engineers to own automated tests, reduce flaky tests and escaped defects, and lead the Quality Enablement practice. The role requires hands-on coding across unit, integration, contract, and browser testing while partnering with engineering, product, and platform teams.

Build and evolve scalable backend systems and APIs for a large SaaS platform. Partner with Product, Design, and QA from ideation through deployment, contribute to microservices architecture, improve testing and observability, identify operational risks, and mentor teammates. The role emphasizes reliable, maintainable solutions, strong collaboration, architectural decision-making, and continuous improvement.

Develops and supports software applications. The posting requires U.S. citizenship or naturalized citizenship and mandates that all work be performed within the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.

Develop and improve embedded graphics and compute drivers, customize products for embedded hardware and real-time operating systems, and profile and optimize drivers and applications. Write and review technical specifications while collaborating on reliable, high-quality safety-critical solutions. The role requires embedded software development, debugging, troubleshooting, and familiarity with graphics APIs, ARINC 653, and safety-critical development practices.