Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA

Leads the engineering team building Circle’s customer onboarding and lifecycle management platform. Responsibilities include developing scalable onboarding automation, customer lifecycle capabilities, partner-facing APIs and SDKs, compliance tools, and product-specific verification workflows. The role owns architecture, reliability, security, operational excellence, cross-functional delivery, hiring, coaching, and development of senior and staff engineers across risk, compliance, fraud, product, and engineering teams.

Build and operate a frontend-focused engineering platform for AI autonomy workflows. Responsibilities include designing composable UI architecture, typed and versioned APIs, application lifecycle workflows, AI-agent integrations, backend services, and consistent local and production environments. The role partners with simulation, autonomy, and ML experts while collaborating across infrastructure, security, product, and design. Engineers own production applications through design, implementation, deployment, and support.

Lead architecture and technical direction for a high-volume log analytics platform spanning ingestion, storage, querying, reliability, and AI-driven capabilities. Shape the roadmap with engineering, product, leadership, and customers; build prototypes; guide migrations and schema changes; set reliability and cost standards; influence teams without direct ownership; mentor senior engineers and technical leads; and promote strong practices in quality, on-call operations, and incident learning.

Develop and deploy data solutions using Palantir Foundry and AIP for client engagements. Lead technical teams, coach team members, analyze system interactions, build applications with large datasets, and apply data engineering and analytics to deliver client outcomes. The role also includes managing client relationships, planning and executing projects, encouraging technology adoption, resolving stakeholder conflicts, and driving continuous improvement.

Build, support, and optimize enterprise applications using Workday Extend. Develop and maintain Workday integrations through Studio, Orchestrate, Core Connectors, EIBs, APIs, and Web Services. Translate business requirements into secure, maintainable solutions; participate in Agile delivery, architecture and code reviews, troubleshooting, automation, CI/CD, and monitoring. Mentor junior engineers, reduce technical debt, improve workflows, and support the full application lifecycle.

Develop, debug, integrate, and test software and complex software/hardware systems for intelligence and defense customers. Work with Java, AI/ML services, software design, and agile multidisciplinary teams. Support requirements and regression testing, product demonstrations, software installation, and system testing, with possible business travel. Participate in a structured first-year engineering development and mentorship program.

Owns the full lifecycle of operational software products, from concept through production. Builds and tests reliable, user-focused features; scales prototypes; triages issues and identifies root causes; and partners with product teams, mission engineers, architects, and end users to deliver effective solutions. The role requires strong React, TypeScript, and Python skills, performance optimization experience, and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

A 12-week unpaid fellowship providing hands-on training in Palantir Foundry and AIP. Participants attend live virtual instruction, complete technical projects, engage with Palantir engineers and leadership, and earn a professional certification. The program seeks builders with technical experience in software, data, automation, process improvement, prototyping, or related fields. Exceptional performers may interview for roles at Palantir or partner companies.

Lead architecture and development of scalable web applications and APIs, integrate LLM/AI features, design streaming and real-time AI experiences, maintain ingestion/analytics infrastructure, collaborate across product and engineering, and deliver production-ready, testable code.

Develop and architect scalable iOS applications serving millions of users. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver features, promote clean architecture and iOS best practices, monitor performance and crash analytics, and guide technical excellence. Requires strong Swift, SwiftUI, MVVM, API integration, persistence, testing, and code quality expertise.