Top Remote Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop AI-powered tools, manage complex databases, optimize application performance, and lead technical decisions.

As an OR Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain optimization software. Collaborate with teams to implement best practices and enhance machine learning infrastructure for logistics software.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Build and improve frontend experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/org support. Contribute to migrating main views to React Native, design high-performance React/TypeScript UIs, collaborate with backend engineers and product teams, and write well-tested, reliable code to maintain low-latency user surfaces at scale.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

Lead and mentor an engineering team building GovIntel and GovChannel product capabilities. Own technical direction, design and deliver scalable SaaS features, APIs, integrations, and platform reliability. Partner with Product, QA, Cloud Ops, and stakeholders to prioritize work, drive CI/CD and observability practices, lead reviews and incident response, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve development speed and quality.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase, you'll build systems for crypto trading, mentor other engineers, and ensure product excellence by architecting robust, highly available services.

Design, build, and operate core developer-infrastructure services (CI/build, deployment orchestration, test infra) at scale. Own services end-to-end including SLOs, observability, and on-call; drive measurable improvements in build/deploy/test metrics; lead cross-team technical projects and mentor engineers to improve developer productivity.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase Payments, building high-availability, low-latency payment rails and funds-flow systems. Drive cross-team initiatives, enforce financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, auditability), improve reliability and cost efficiency using observability data, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and compliance to deliver scalable global payment solutions.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and maintain data systems, create data integration SDKs, and implement data security measures while collaborating with product teams and managing data pipelines.

As a Software Engineer at Clear Capital, you will write high-quality code, evaluate implementation decisions, collaborate within a team, and tackle challenging problems to develop enterprise solutions.

The role involves analyzing, designing, modifying, and programming software enhancements or new products. Responsibilities include coding, testing, debugging applications, and documenting installation procedures while interacting with users to gather system requirements.

The role involves analyzing, designing, and programming software enhancements and new products for various applications, including commercial and end-user. Responsibilities include coding, testing, debugging, and documentation, along with user interaction to define system requirements.

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, optimize performance, ensure security compliance, and mentor junior engineers in a collaborative environment.

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.

The Software Engineer will develop APIs, SDKs, and documentation for OpenRouter, enhancing the developer experience and expanding platform features.

As a Software Engineer at CharacterQuilt, you'll build AI marketing tools, maintain a TypeScript and React app, and collaborate on design.

The Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain backend systems for cloud-connected irrigation, focusing on API development, database management, and system integration with AWS IoT Core, ensuring performance and scalability.

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.