Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Design, architect, develop, test, and support scalable full-stack applications for a high-volume, multi-tenant data platform. Own features from design through delivery, contribute to technical strategy and roadmap development, ensure operational excellence, collaborate across distributed teams, and mentor engineers. Apply cloud-native technologies and AI-assisted development practices while supporting near-real-time analytics and reliable production operations.

Build and operate Yahoo’s developer experience platform, including CI/CD infrastructure, artifact repositories, release pipelines, and ArgoCD GitOps deployments. Develop reusable golden-path workflows, AI-assisted automation, configuration validation, and platform tooling. Support pipeline troubleshooting, artifact management, runner optimization, observability, security practices, and developer adoption through migrations, documentation, office hours, and technical enablement.

The Principal Software Engineer will embed with product teams to solve complex technical problems, deliver production code, and make application and service-level architectural decisions. The role owns shared services, reliability, performance, incident response, and cross-system issue diagnosis. It also leads solution design, mentors engineers through influence, supports multiple products and domains, and establishes effective standards for AI-assisted software development.

Lead architecture and delivery across Rails backends and React frontends, build Node.js and NestJS platform integrations, establish testing and code-quality standards, mentor engineers, review code, and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience. The role requires technical ownership across multiple backend technologies and leadership in AI-assisted development practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Design, build, and operate scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go. Architect distributed, fault-tolerant systems, optimize performance and reliability, define APIs and service boundaries, improve observability and operational readiness, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical autonomous deployments.

Lead performance practices for large-scale AI systems, enhance datacenter products, and resolve complex performance issues through collaboration and technical expertise.

Design, build, and maintain automated migration workflows to onboard dental practices. Implement C#, .NET, and PowerShell scripts, manage ETL processes and SQL data transformations, troubleshoot live routines, leverage AI tools to speed development, and produce technical documentation to ensure secure, reliable migrations.

Lead design and implementation of core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Build high-performance Rust systems, support production deployments, collaborate with ML engineers, design scalable data architectures, troubleshoot performance and scalability issues, and cultivate a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture.

Design and build cloud cost-management capabilities, including forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, data pipelines, transformation models, visualizations, and reusable UI components. Own features end to end from planning through release while improving application reliability and performance. Collaborate closely with engineers and founding team members, contribute to technical design and roadmap decisions, and work pragmatically in a fast-moving distributed startup environment.

Define architecture and technical direction for Catalyst’s distributed data platform, including messaging, state management, reconciliation, streaming, storage, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations. Build Go and Python frameworks, improve reliability and SLOs, lead incident response, maintain secure dependency and artifact delivery, and develop infrastructure automation. Collaborate across teams and with customers, review designs and code, establish engineering standards, and travel internationally up to 25% to support mission-critical deployments.

Owns the architecture and implementation of high-performance real-time streaming systems, including media ingestion, buffering, relay, packetization, telemetry synchronization, and distribution. Designs protocol modules, resolves interoperability challenges, improves latency and throughput, and maintains production reliability through testing, observability, incident response, and automated deployments. Partners with stakeholders, documents architectural trade-offs, mentors engineers, leads technical rituals, and travels internationally up to 25% to support customer and mission requirements.

Design, implement, and support high-performance storage and query infrastructure handling billions of events. Independently scope and deliver complex projects, optimize query performance, improve reliability, participate in on-call rotations, define KPIs and SLOs, reduce operational toil, debug production issues, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web and backend applications, public REST APIs, automated testing frameworks, and cloud-native services. Improve scalability, stability, monitoring, auto-scaling, CI/CD, security, and reliability. Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, document root causes and operational procedures, and collaborate with distributed engineering teams to deliver fleet-management platforms.

Develop open source SDKs, enterprise APIs, UIs, and backend systems supporting large-scale computer vision datasets. Build scalable, maintainable, performant, and well-tested software for unstructured data and AI workflows. Contribute to enterprise deployments across customer clouds and on-premises environments, while improving tooling, automation, engineering practices, and open source community initiatives in a remote-first team.

The Staff SDET will design and implement automated test frameworks using TypeScript, collaborate with developers, and enhance testing processes within CI/CD pipelines.

Design, build, and optimize GraphQL APIs, gRPC services and SQL queries for a promotions engine. Own complex technical problems, improve production scalability and performance, set up DataDog monitoring, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end features in an agile environment.

Build and operate AlphaSense's identity platform across user management, authentication, and authorization. Design scalable RBAC/ABAC/ReBAC systems, integrate authentication patterns (OAuth/OIDC/SAML), implement SCIM provisioning, and expose GraphQL/gRPC/REST APIs. Partner with security on SOC2/GDPR compliance, drive platform roadmap, champion testing, observability, and reliability, and operate autonomously from North America in close collaboration with the Helsinki team.

Build and ship full‑stack product features on a Python/Flask backend and React frontend. Design REST/GraphQL APIs, work with SQLAlchemy and relational data models, integrate LLM/AI features, use async task queues (Celery), and collaborate with product, design, and engineers to deliver reliable, well-tested features end-to-end.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based software solutions. Collaborate across the SDLC with stakeholders and development teams, integrate DevOps and CI/CD practices, support operational tasks, ensure security and performance, drive feature development, conduct code reviews, and stay current with emerging technologies.