Top Software Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

Own and advance Yahoo’s enterprise Node.js development environment, including runtimes, packages, container images, internal integrations, and CI/CD workflows. Manage runtime lifecycles, security updates, dependencies, releases, testing, automation, and troubleshooting. Support GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Enterprise while integrating AI programming tools to improve developer productivity. Partner across engineering and security teams, and document platform changes, migrations, and deprecations.

Build scalable simulation and planning systems for complex communications networks. Model hypothetical scenarios, allow users to vary configurations and assumptions, evaluate impacts, compare tradeoffs, identify risks, and integrate simulation capabilities into broader product workflows. The role involves full-stack engineering across design, development, testing, and operations, with emphasis on distributed systems, algorithms, network modeling, and computational reliability.

Develop production software for maritime route optimization, vessel performance and fuel-consumption modeling, voyage analysis, simulation, and route evaluation. Build and improve optimization algorithms, APIs, services, testing, and explainable recommendation systems using Rust and Python. Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime specialists to translate complex physical and mathematical problems into maintainable software supporting U.S. Government and defense customers.

Design and develop backend distributed systems for 5G non-terrestrial networks, Direct-to-Cell services, satellite orchestration, and terrestrial network coordination. Build scalable cloud-native software using C++, Golang, Java, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Kubernetes. Translate 3GPP and O-RAN specifications into reliable software, integrate platform components, document implementations, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with telecom solution architects.

Designs and implements analytics and query capabilities in Elasticsearch, develops data-intensive features, resolves complex bugs, optimizes data structures and algorithms, and contributes modern Java code. Collaborates autonomously with globally distributed engineering, UI, solutions, and open-source communities. Provides technical expertise, guides projects from design through delivery, and uses AI to accelerate development, debugging, and code optimization.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.

Lead delivery for the Batch Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable compute platforms for scheduled and on-demand batch workloads. Collaborate with product/design/analytics, define technical plans, ensure availability (monitoring/on-call), set code and design standards, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and quality.

As a Senior Principal Software Engineer, you'll develop a unified data platform, architect infrastructure, implement APIs, and mentor teams, focusing on data processing and reliability.

Design, build, and optimize Java-based data pipelines and integrations from SQL/NoSQL and cloud sources. Create BI dashboards and automated reports, design storage for structured/unstructured data, document processes, and follow production deployment best practices to deliver actionable analytics.

Design and build cloud-native ETL/ELT pipelines and microservices, modernize on-prem systems to distributed services, implement authentication/authorization and data governance, ensure data quality and observability, drive architecture and CI/CD best practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with stakeholders across a US Navy-focused defense program.

Design, implement, and operate large-scale, low-latency cloud data processing systems on OCI. Contribute across the software lifecycle, optimize data pipelines, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, and collaborate on design, deployment, monitoring, and production support.

Develop, test, and maintain software components; participate in requirements analysis, design, architecture, integration, and project activities; diagnose and fix bugs; collaborate with architects, designers, and product managers; build scalable REST APIs and work with databases, search technologies, and modern front-end frameworks.

Join a remote engineering team to write, test, and maintain code under senior guidance; participate in code reviews, standups, and sprint planning; debug and resolve application issues; and continuously learn new technologies and best practices.

Leads the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a high-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance strategy, building advanced AI-assisted coding features, driving cross-team technical roadmaps, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, optimizing context and token usage, reducing technical debt, and partnering with Product and Design. The role requires hands-on software development, technical leadership, developer-tools expertise, TypeScript and Node.js proficiency, large-scale performance optimization, AI workflow experience, and Eastern Time Zone availability.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

The Senior Salesforce Engineer will design and develop scalable Salesforce solutions using Apex and LWC, implement AI features, collaborate with teams, and mentor juniors while ensuring best practices.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead initiatives that enable production-like system testing across engineering. Build realistic test environments, workload generation and replay, fault-injection tooling, shared testing frameworks, and continuous or release validation. Partner with infrastructure, reliability, release, and product teams to convert incident learnings into durable test coverage. Mentor engineers, influence testing strategy, and improve observability, debuggability, and operational readiness.

Design, build, test, document, and operate core backend features for highly scalable, multi-tenant distributed services. The role focuses on concurrency, reliability, latency, scale, multi-region failover, availability, production observability, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Staff Engineers also contribute to enterprise on-premise and cloud offerings, improve team velocity, and provide technical leadership across backend systems.

Build and maintain high-performance, reliable backend systems for Yahoo Mail AntiSpam and Delivery. Design and develop complex server applications on Unix, leverage cloud platforms (GCP/AWS), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and ML/AI models to detect and deliver messages. Troubleshoot, optimize performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure scalability and uptime.

Design, evolve, and operate core data models and APIs for complex communications networks. Build durable abstractions for heterogeneous physical and logical networks, while maintaining interface quality, compatibility, consistency, and performance. Collaborate with experienced engineers to manage priorities, timelines, and deliverables across production systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Golang, C/C++, Rust, or Java.

Build and operate managed compute primitives for Temporal Cloud, including autoscaling systems, cloud integrations, control-plane and data-plane services, and multi-tenant execution infrastructure. Own architecture, APIs, reliability, observability, rollout strategies, incident response, and long-term maintenance. Lead technical design, cross-team platform initiatives, code reviews, and mentorship while ensuring secure, performant, and fault-tolerant customer-facing services.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed storage systems for Temporal Cloud. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLO ownership, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; and providing technical leadership through roadmap planning, RFCs, mentoring, and cross-team delivery.

Lead the full software development lifecycle for internal and customer-facing observability systems. Design, build, deploy, support, and optimize scalable distributed systems and high-throughput data pipelines. Own reliability, performance, testing, documentation, and production readiness; participate in on-call support. Mentor engineers, lead design reviews, investigate incidents, and collaborate with stakeholders to develop effective tooling across the Temporal ecosystem.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable distributed observability systems for internal developers and customers. Lead the software development lifecycle, develop and review designs, ensure testing and production readiness, investigate reliability and performance issues, participate in on-call support, and collaborate across teams to improve Temporal’s infrastructure and platform capabilities.