Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Senior backend-focused engineer to provide technical leadership across backend, APIs, and data pipelines. Collaborate with product, design, and stakeholders, author documentation, and drive engineering best practices on a distributed remote team building scalable energy software.

As a Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain backend functionality for scalable services, focusing on storage systems and reliability.

Design and implement high-reliability embedded firmware for a satellite user terminal: low-level drivers, beamforming control, networking optimization, thermal and power management, secure boot/OTA, hardware debugging, and RTOS/Embedded Linux integration to enable real-time beam steering and high-throughput communications.

Lead and scale GridUnity's quality engineering strategy: harden agent-driven test pipelines, enforce evidence-backed release gates, retire manual tests, build agent-verdict calibration, embed automated testing in CI/CD, mentor teams, define quality metrics, and expand the system across product lines.

Design, develop, test, document, and support secure external data integrations (APIs, file-based interfaces, ETL) using .NET, Azure, Informatica, and Snowflake. Lead technical delivery, perform impact analysis, provide production support, mentor engineers, and ensure solutions meet security, performance, and governance requirements.

Lead architecture, design, and implementation of multi-threaded embedded software (C/C++) for satellite payloads and ground terminals. Collaborate with hardware, silicon, and systems teams, define performance KPIs, drive optimization, testing, CI/CD, and mentor engineers while ensuring fault tolerance, scalability, and high-speed data-plane handling.

Own and operate the full-stack application surfaces of a live patient-facing product: embeddable React/TypeScript widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Advise and make architectural decisions, integrate AI Intake features, ship versioned shared surfaces, keep dependencies current, and mentor junior engineers while partnering closely with AI/ML teammates to coordinate application and model work.

Design, build, and maintain applications, APIs, and services for Magna's Jury Consulting business; partner with stakeholders to translate requirements; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, testing, DevOps, production reliability, and AI-assisted development; mentor engineers and evaluate emerging technologies.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable web applications and APIs for the Records business using C#/.NET and Azure. Collaborate with stakeholders, contribute to architecture and CI/CD, mentor engineers, leverage AI-assisted development tools, and improve production reliability and performance.

The Principal Software Engineer - Backend drives technology direction for backend systems, ensures service reliability, and mentors teams while shaping architecture and standards across Autodesk's systems.

Lead multiple Agile teams to design, build, and deliver large-scale Java/Linux applications and big-data solutions. Drive engineering excellence via automated testing, DevOps/CI, mentorship, backlog grooming, and cross-organizational influence to advance CAS products.

Design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD for production systems. Run and optimize EKS/Kubernetes at scale, implement IaC (Terraform), observability, security best practices, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Collaborate with engineering teams, participate in on-call incident response, and produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.

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.

Senior engineer who designs, builds, tests, and operates scalable backend services (Node.js/TypeScript); leads multi-sprint technical delivery; raises reliability, security (SOC 2) and observability standards; mentors engineers; runs code reviews; owns production readiness and incident response; and partners with Product, DevOps, and customers.

Develops, tests, and releases embedded software for connected vehicle products. Performs systems requirements, integration, verification/validation, and collaborates cross-functionally to deliver connectivity features and resolve product software issues.

Lead architecture and system design as a staff engineer, manage critical microservices, and influence engineering practices in fintech/blockchain.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and manage backend systems for digital payments, focusing on microservices, API design, and integration with banking systems.

The Senior Software Engineer, Payments will design and implement backend infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, focusing on payment processing and operations.

Join Dakota's core engineering team to design and implement back-end infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, addressing high-visibility projects.

Design, build, and maintain automation and testing infrastructure for the North platform: CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, containerized test environments (Docker/Kubernetes), Helm and ArgoCD deployments, infrastructure-as-code, benchmarking, parallel test execution, and cross-team standards to improve test coverage, reliability, and deployment confidence.

Design and develop scalable features for secure software. Advocate for quality standards and engage with customers. Work remotely with a focus on product improvement.

The Principal Software Engineer will build systems for safe software deployment, enhance developer frameworks, and ensure reliability in code delivery.

As a Founding Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of robust backend systems and APIs, optimize large-scale data workflows, and mentor a growing engineering team.

Own and modernize iHerb's product catalog across backend, React frontend, and relational data. Build end-to-end features, use AI-driven SDLC tools, write automated tests, ensure observability, participate in on-call incident response, and contribute to shared engineering standards.

Design, build, and maintain a quality platform and developer tooling to enable testable, observable, and measurable software. Improve CI/CD gates, telemetry, and feedback systems; integrate testing and production signals; leverage AI/agents to automate quality tasks; partner on design and quality strategy; coach engineers and reduce operational toil to increase release confidence.