Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The Staff Software Engineer role involves leading projects, coordinating engineers, improving processes, and representing PayPal to external partners, focusing on cloud and DevOps responsibilities.

Design, build, and maintain automation and testing infrastructure for the North platform: CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, containerized test environments (Docker/Kubernetes), Helm and ArgoCD deployments, infrastructure-as-code, benchmarking, parallel test execution, and cross-team standards to improve test coverage, reliability, and deployment confidence.

As a Founding Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of robust backend systems and APIs, optimize large-scale data workflows, and mentor a growing engineering team.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will enhance Postscript's Fondue product by architecting scalable systems, driving decoupling, and implementing AI-first development practices while collaborating across teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and develop systems to integrate AI in healthcare payment processes, mentor engineers, and optimize workflows.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build scalable data solutions, manage backend systems, and enhance performance leveraging Golang and Python. Responsibilities include optimizing ETL processes and collaborating with teams to meet evolving customer needs.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable backend systems, lead projects, and contribute to enterprise software solutions, focusing on application architecture, API development, and ML techniques.

The Sr./Principal Software Engineer will design and implement core capabilities for SingleStore's cloud platform, focusing on scalability and reliability, while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and operate shared backend services and APIs. Own full SDLC, define service boundaries and data models, ensure scalability and reuse, apply DDD and systems thinking, and use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development while maintaining maintainability.

Build and ship lightweight internal full-stack tools end-to-end within small pods. Rapidly prototype, deploy, operate, and iterate tools using cloud platforms and AI-assisted development to improve team productivity and automate workflows.

Design, build, and ship full‑stack applications end-to-end within small pods. Own the full SDLC, deploy and operate cloud applications, contribute to architecture, and use AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, testing, and code quality while maintaining reliability.

The role includes leading a team of database engineers, designing and optimizing Oracle databases and AWS data services, and overseeing data migration efforts. Responsibilities involve collaboration across teams, performance tuning, and managing production support.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain production-ready API solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams while utilizing cloud technologies and agile methodologies.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the software development lifecycle focusing on observability, design high-scale distributed systems, and mentor team members while ensuring technical excellence.

Lead fullstack technical work connecting Python/Django backend services with Unity (C#) client, drive technical roadmap, own live-ops reliability and incident management, mentor cross-functional teams, deliver scalable features, and reduce technical debt for a live-service mobile/PC game.

Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and internal developer tooling to scale a production SaaS platform. Improve performance, scalability, and security, integrate observability, build AI-assisted automation, support production debugging and incidents, and participate in on-call rotations while enabling strong developer experience and documentation.

Lead design and implement scalable backend systems using Node.js, build RESTful APIs, design SQL schemas, optimize performance, mentor engineers, deploy on Azure, and maintain CI/CD, security, and observability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in C#/.NET powering payment routing, connector management, and platform configuration. Build secure, observable APIs and high-volume transaction processing systems, collaborate across Product/AI/Engineering, mentor junior engineers, drive architecture and standards, and own full lifecycle from requirements to deployment.

Design, build, and maintain AWS-hosted backend services (Lambda, Fargate) using JavaScript/Node.js. Develop and monitor RESTful APIs, create CloudFormation IaC, manage S3 data, integrate with Salesforce (refactor LWC/Apex), collaborate with Product, and document deployments.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput distributed data pipelines and platform infrastructure. Own end-to-end systems from architecture to production, write production-grade Python, optimize SQL at scale, architect service contracts, mentor engineers, and instrument systems for observability.

The role involves developing software for datacenter integration, managing infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and automating processes. Requires strong expertise in programming, CI/CD, and distributed systems.

Develop, deploy, and maintain the UDS Registry and related tools (Pepr, Lula). Lead architecture and implementation, integrate with defense systems, participate in on-call rotation, contribute to open source, produce documentation, mentor engineers, and influence product direction with user-focused design.

Design and implement SDN-driven networking for a large LEO/MEO satellite constellation. Develop routing, topology management, fast-reroute, traffic engineering, programmable datapaths, observability/telemetry, and self-healing logic while optimizing for latency, power, and mobility. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with RF and silicon teams.

Design and implement SDN-driven network architecture for a multi-orbit satellite constellation. Develop routing, topology management, fast-reroute, traffic engineering, telemetry/observability, and packet-forwarding solutions optimized for time-varying LEO/MEO links, power and latency constraints. Collaborate with RF and silicon teams and mentor junior engineers.

Own platform feature and API development, integrations, and deployments. Design, build, and maintain backend-focused full-stack features, collaborate with product and design, perform code reviews, troubleshoot, and work with cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to scale the marketplace.