Top Scala Jobs in San Diego, CA

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.

Provides technical leadership on complex, high-impact engineering projects from design through launch. The role involves architecture, company-wide initiatives, engineering excellence, mentoring technical leaders, and establishing standards for scalable, reliable, secure, observable systems. The engineer will collaborate across teams, communicate complex technical topics, and apply customer-focused decision-making and A/B testing techniques.

Leads architecture and hands-on development for ServiceNow’s Workflow Data Fabric, including federated query, data synchronization, private connectivity, streaming, ingestion, and data quality platforms. Owns scalability, reliability, security, performance, technical standards, production escalations, and cross-team engineering direction. Mentors senior engineers and partners with product, infrastructure, security, quality, and support teams to deliver large-scale distributed data systems.

Design, build, test, deploy, and operate cloud-native applications, distributed services, data platforms, APIs, and AI-powered experiences. Develop frontend and backend solutions, data pipelines, analytics frameworks, and intelligent workflows using Azure and modern engineering practices. Own technical designs, modernization, observability, security, compliance, incident response, and operational reliability. Collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and contribute to architecture, code reviews, automation, and continuous improvement.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Scala/Java server-side applications and RESTful APIs. Work on distributed systems, ensure data integrity and security, write unit tests, optimize performance, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers while supporting CMS mission requirements.

Lead architecture, development, and technical strategy for scalable cloud-native applications, distributed services, APIs, data platforms, workflows, and AI-powered capabilities. Drive modernization, reliability, security, observability, CI/CD, and operational excellence across teams. Translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions, mentor engineers, influence architecture, and develop intelligent experiences using generative AI, RAG, agents, and automation.

Design and operate high-volume batch and streaming pipelines for cloud usage metering and billing. Build rating logic, data lakehouse systems, Airflow workflows, and production Python and Spark or Flink jobs. Develop reconciliation and data-quality checks with auditable billing trails, while contributing tested code, code reviews, and engineering standards. The role requires deep SQL, cloud, and large-scale data engineering experience.

The Lead Rust Software Engineer will design and build scalable applications, mentor teams on Rust, and contribute to complex product development.

Build and architect Alpaca’s algorithmic trading platform, developing high-performance, low-latency brokerage systems. Responsibilities include extensive frontend and backend coding, distributed system design, database and concurrency architecture, high availability, throughput optimization, and object-oriented modeling. The role requires prior experience with trading or exchange systems, including OMS and RMS platforms, and involves making critical technical decisions in a demanding early-stage environment.

Build and operate the backend platform for autonomous cybersecurity agents, including durable workflow execution, tool and connector frameworks, safe-change pipelines, tenant isolation, ETL, GraphQL services, observability, audit trails, and distributed systems. Partner with AI researchers and security engineers to productionize agent capabilities across customer environments while enforcing authorization, rollback, quotas, and data protection.

Design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Collaborate with architects, product partners, customers, and engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, security, observability, and continuous improvement. Use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly across coding, testing, debugging, analysis, and documentation while ensuring software quality, security, performance, and maintainability.

Design, develop, troubleshoot, and support secure, high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Provide technical leadership across the software development lifecycle, lead code and design reviews, establish automated testing, monitor production systems, and improve quality practices. Collaborate with architects, product partners, customers, and engineers while mentoring team members. Build and maintain AI-enabled components responsibly, applying security, privacy, governance, observability, and compliance standards.

Volunteer Principal Full Stack Engineer to lead and contribute across frontend and backend (React/React Native, Node.js, MongoDB). Own feature development, mentor engineers, collaborate with product/design, ship scalable code, and support CI processes. Must commit 4+ hours weekly and attend a weekly standup; first task includes launching a fundraising campaign.

Senior engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable data ingestion, processing, storage, and member-facing membership application. Drive architecture decisions, mentor engineers, build data pipelines, APIs, and ensure reliability, observability, CI/CD, and documentation while partnering with product and analytics stakeholders.

Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs for secure fintech and crypto products. Collaborate with engineering and product teams on architecture, code reviews, system design, and deployment using Azure. Optimize backend performance and scalability, resolve defects, follow DevOps and CI/CD practices, and build reliable systems supporting payments, transfers, and other financial activity.

Develop and operate IAM services powering Elastic Cloud and on-premises offerings. Responsibilities include backend software development, technical design, production debugging, incident response, customer issue resolution, security and reliability improvements, and on-call participation. The role involves distributed systems, containers, virtualization, microservices, cloud platforms, Kubernetes adoption, and collaboration across globally distributed engineering teams.

Build and operate scalable AI platform infrastructure enabling secure, reliable access to foundation models and AI agents. Responsibilities include developing model gateways, provider integrations, routing, usage controls, observability, governance, and self-service platform capabilities. The role involves architecting distributed systems, improving reliability and security, collaborating across engineering and product teams, mentoring engineers, and establishing high-quality engineering practices.

Develop and maintain full-stack product features, REST APIs, ERP integrations, and AI document-capture capabilities for NG and SMRTR TRAC. Work with Vue, TypeScript, Node.js, Scala, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB; improve reliability, performance, security, and test coverage. Translate customer and business requirements into software, estimate work, support production go-lives, troubleshoot issues, document solutions, and collaborate with engineering, sales, professional services, and customers.

Design, develop, debug, and improve Elastic’s cloud control-plane offerings. The role involves guiding cross-team architecture, leading development best practices, creating technical plans, diagnosing complex failures, prioritizing fixes and features, and collaborating with Support and Elasticsearch engineering teams. The engineer will contribute to reliable, scalable SaaS foundations while providing pragmatic technical leadership across a distributed engineering organization.

Own the technical direction and delivery of WEX’s data acquisition platform. Build reusable, high-performance batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion services with schema validation, reconciliation, recovery, lineage, security, observability, and auditability. Lead architecture and code reviews, establish testing and CI/CD practices, mentor engineers, resolve cross-team dependencies, and support production escalations. The role requires hands-on development of scalable distributed systems and configuration-driven connectors.

Design, build, and operate backend services supporting external penetration testing, including Python APIs, workflow orchestration, ETL pipelines, AWS data lakes, GraphQL and graph APIs, Kubernetes infrastructure, and observability systems. Own service performance, scalability, uptime, deployment, and production operations while collaborating with product, design, and frontend teams. Contribute to architecture, technical documentation, platform stability, and user-facing launches.

Build and lead data catalog infrastructure supporting data discovery, metadata management, governance, quality, lineage, privacy, access control, and retention. Develop scalable metadata integrations, onboarding tools, data policies, and end-to-end lineage products across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualization, and third-party datasets. Collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to ensure Airbnb data assets are cataloged, discoverable, governed, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Lead the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of PlayStation’s real-time analytics platform. Build scalable distributed data systems using streaming and OLAP technologies, integrate batch and streaming workloads, improve reliability and performance, and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across teams, mentors engineers, drives architecture and standards, resolves production incidents, and participates in on-call support.

Build and optimize distributed Lance dataset operations, high-performance indices, table formats, and data encodings in Rust. Develop integrations with Spark, Hive Metastore, Presto, Trino, Ray, and other data infrastructure systems. Improve internal data processing infrastructure, contribute to open-source communities, and promote Lance through technical conferences. The role requires deep distributed systems expertise and extensive experience with high-performance databases, big data, or AI training systems.

Develop, test, troubleshoot, and support high-volume software applications in an Agile environment. Collaborate with architects, product teams, customers, and engineers throughout the software development lifecycle. Participate in design and code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, security and privacy practices, and root-cause analysis. Use approved AI-assisted development tools responsibly across coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and delivery while maintaining accountability for software quality, reliability, performance, and maintainability.