Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Own and lead the technical direction of a major codebase section while designing, building, testing, documenting, and maintaining secure, scalable API-based decisioning products. Partner with product, engineering, and security teams on agile delivery, troubleshoot production issues, meet SLA requirements, and participate in an on-call rotation.

Design and scale highly available backend services for an AI-powered manufacturing platform. Build AWS-based event-driven systems with Node.js, REST/GraphQL APIs, and database integrations. Use AI coding agents while validating correctness, write tests and documentation, improve observability and reliability, debug production issues, and collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams. Contribute to technical design, code reviews, engineering best practices, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted development.

Designs and scales secure backend services, APIs, payment workflows, and financial tools for contractors. Responsibilities include system architecture, integrations, software lifecycle ownership, testing, deployment, observability, incident response, and operational excellence. The role collaborates with Product, Design, Finance, Risk, and Operations while mentoring engineers and promoting scalable, maintainable, reliable systems.

Own Payabli’s AWS infrastructure, platform roadmap, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, developer environments, observability, and security posture. Design resilient cloud architecture, improve local development, enable secure AI-assisted workflows, and maintain PCI-DSS-aligned controls. Establish deployment standards, monitoring, documentation, and runbooks while partnering with engineering leadership to increase developer productivity and operational reliability.

Designs and directs development of scalable software systems using AI-assisted engineering practices. Owns architecture, APIs, data models, testing strategy, security, reliability, observability, deployment, and production operations. Decomposes work for AI agents, validates generated code and tests, leads incident response, and coaches engineers on effective AI-enabled development. Requires full-stack experience, modern server-side development, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure, regulated-data security, and production use of agentic AI.

Develop and support high-volume, mission-critical web applications across the full software development lifecycle. Build with TypeScript, JavaScript, Next.js, and SQL; deploy and operate applications in Microsoft Azure; use AI-assisted development tools; troubleshoot complex technical issues; make architectural decisions; and mentor other engineers. The role requires multi-tier system development, database optimization, Agile collaboration, and proactive delivery of reliable, high-quality software.

Develop and deliver high-volume enterprise applications across the full software development lifecycle. Design, code, test, debug, optimize SQL solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, contribute to scalable architecture, collaborate with technical and business stakeholders, and mentor other developers. Work independently while participating in Agile development and production implementation.

Own and evolve enterprise AWS infrastructure, governance, security, identity, networking, and shared platforms. Build and operate full-stack services in TypeScript and Python, automate infrastructure and delivery, improve monitoring and reliability, manage incidents and on-call operations, and establish audit-ready controls. Partner across engineering and IT, improve production readiness, and mentor engineers while delivering secure, scalable, low-blast-radius systems.

Build, own, deploy, and operate backend services and APIs powering Mozilla products. Responsibilities include backend development, cloud infrastructure collaboration, monitoring and alerting, production support, incident response, releases, security and privacy reviews, API design, code reviews, and mentoring. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, on-call participation, and maintaining reliable production systems.

Build and own backend services for Mozilla’s Ecosystem Services, including server-side logic, APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, deployments, and production reliability. Participate in on-call support, incident response, releases, security and privacy reviews, code reviews, and cross-functional collaboration. Mentor junior engineers and drive improvements in quality, testing, and engineering processes.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Lead the architecture, development, testing, and maintenance of scalable backend systems and APIs. Drive technical decisions, code quality, performance optimization, documentation, continuous delivery, and monitoring. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable solutions. Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, resolve complex technical issues, and contribute to agile development and overall technology strategy.

Build and operate multicloud Kubernetes infrastructure and platform capabilities, including cloud foundations, networking, identity, cluster lifecycle, disconnected deployments, packaging, GitOps delivery, infrastructure as code, observability, upgrades, and incident response. Partner with engineering teams to provide reusable self-service infrastructure primitives across commercial, government, secure, classified, and disconnected environments.

Design and develop high-performance optimization and scheduling systems for complex network-resource allocation problems. Translate network requirements into computational models, improve solution quality and scalability, and evolve solver architecture for reliability. Responsibilities include managing project priorities, designing, testing, debugging, and maintaining production software. Preferred experience includes numerical optimization, solver development, performance profiling, distributed or cloud computing, and telecommunications or networking.

Design and maintain scalable services, APIs, distributed systems, and data pipelines for AI training data infrastructure. Own systems through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. Lead architectural decisions, improve reliability and scalability, mentor engineers, and collaborate with AI/ML, product, and data operations teams. Contribute to CI/CD, containerization, DevOps, and cloud deployment practices.

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of reliable frontend, backend, API, data, and production systems across multiple teams. The role drives multi-quarter initiatives, AI-enabled engineering practices, system scalability, security, observability, incident response, technical standards, mentorship, and alignment between technical investments and product outcomes.

Develop and maintain Python backend services, primarily with Flask, while designing scalable architecture and integrating legacy systems. Build AWS solutions using Lambda, Cognito, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB; maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with OpenTofu and Terraform. Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment, contribute to technical decisions and engineering standards, review code, and mentor junior developers.

Lead development of secure, scalable digital banking software across front-end and backend systems. Design Angular or React applications, build APIs, optimize SQL performance, integrate third-party platforms, improve code quality, implement testing strategies, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment while supporting cloud-native practices, regulatory compliance, and continuous product improvement.

Lead development of CoLab's simulation review capabilities: ingest and process industry-standard simulation data, build high-performance visualization for large datasets, collaborate with Product and customers, and define architecture and UX for a new Simulation product area.

Develops, maintains, and enhances scalable web applications, internal tools, libraries, and shared components for international enterprise clients. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, participates in code reviews, creates technical documentation, and shares knowledge. Requires strong software development principles, design patterns, cloud, database, CI/CD, messaging, testing, and mobile framework experience.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain robust backend systems using Ruby on Rails, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance the real estate platform's performance and user experience.

Build and maintain Python-based automation, services, test infrastructure, and performance analysis tooling for a distributed database system. Collaborate with internal stakeholders, improve developer tooling and reproducible testing, analyze system performance, and create documentation and runbooks. The role requires strong software fundamentals, systems thinking, Linux and CI experience, and the ability to learn new languages and systems quickly.

Build and operate multi-cloud infrastructure for MariaDB Cloud, designing application layers, APIs, cloud-native services, automation, and database-adjacent features. Own production capabilities end to end across AWS, Azure, and GCP using Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Python, and backend languages. Develop AI-enabled workflows involving vector databases, semantic search, RAG, and LLM agents while ensuring security, observability, scalability, and reliable deployment.

Design and build JTX, a high-performance Solana trading application. Develop low-latency, reliable systems for order routing, execution, real-time market data, and position management. Own critical infrastructure, implement security across transaction signing and user data, make architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving 0-to-1 environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and developing scalable web applications and APIs using Elixir, React, and PostgreSQL. The role involves solving ambiguous technical and business problems, ensuring system reliability and performance, collaborating cross-functionally, presenting solutions to leadership, writing tested code, participating in code reviews, mentoring engineers, and removing technical roadblocks.