Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Develop firmware and device drivers for wireless access points, including board bring-up, BSPs, kernel modules, and embedded Linux components. Collaborate with hardware engineers, analytics teams, customers, and product managers to deliver high-performance networking features and resolve issues. Work across bootloader, driver, kernel, and user-space layers while supporting 802.11 Wi-Fi, wired networking, ARM architecture, and adaptive wireless network innovations.

Develop firmware, board support packages, kernel modules, and device drivers for next-generation 802.11 wireless access points. Collaborate with hardware engineers, analytics teams, customers, and product managers to deliver networking features, resolve issues, and create adaptive wireless solutions. Work across the embedded stack from bootloader through user space, applying expertise in C, Linux kernel development, ARM architecture, Wi-Fi, and wired networking protocols.

Develop firmware for new 802.11 wireless access point hardware, including board bring-up, BSPs, bootloaders, kernel modules, device drivers, and user-space components. Collaborate with hardware, analytics, product, and customer teams to deliver high-performance wired and wireless networking features. The role requires strong C programming, Linux kernel expertise, embedded systems knowledge, networking protocol understanding, and ARM architecture experience.

Build and maintain internal AI-powered tools and automations for sales, customer success, and revenue operations. Implement features, automate lead routing and pipeline workflows, troubleshoot integrations, monitor tools, fix bugs, and evaluate AI platforms. Collaborate with nontechnical stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver reliable, documented code using APIs, scripting languages, and database systems.

Develop and launch reliable backend systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes. Break projects into deliverable phases, collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call operations, debug code, conduct code reviews, and contribute to team growth and interviewing. The role requires 1.5+ years of software engineering experience and strong communication skills.

Build and operate ingestion and reconciliation pipelines that match card-network and partner reports against internal transactions. Develop reporting products, produce standardized journals for accounting, support tax and regulatory filing systems, handle sensitive PII for compliance, debug production issues, and collaborate with finance, product, and data teams to automate and scale reconciliation and reporting.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve reliability, performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call and incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews and documentation.

Build and operate scalable, customer-facing full-stack software for Samsara’s safety products. The role involves developing web, mobile, API, and platform capabilities; integrating LLMs, agentic workflows, and RAG; evaluating AI quality; and improving reliability, scalability, and operational health. The engineer collaborates with Product, Design, ML, and platform teams while owning features from concept through production.

Build and deliver backend payment-processing features using Kotlin, scalable APIs, microservices, and containerization. Develop automated tests, monitor feature rollouts, collaborate with UX and product management, and participate in design and code reviews. The role supports Toast’s unified payments platform and requires East Coast working hours.

Develop and support secure healthcare integration services connecting providers, payers, delegated entities, and third-party platforms. Responsibilities include API development, distributed systems, event-driven messaging, cloud automation, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, production support, secure authentication, and cross-functional agile collaboration. The role also contributes to healthcare interoperability solutions using standards such as FHIR.

Build and maintain scalable backend platforms for capital orchestration, transaction reconciliation, collateral movement, data pipelines, and business workflows. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, analysts, and business stakeholders to design systems, write tested code, improve reliability, and deliver projects incrementally. Support production operations through monitoring, metrics, debugging, code reviews, and on-call responsibilities.

Build and enhance cloud-based applications for mission-critical workloads. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, debugging, integrating, and deploying application modules; developing CI/CD pipelines; applying cloud-native, DevOps, security, scalability, and performance practices; and collaborating with project managers and development partners to deliver, monitor, and support cloud services.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services for AI agents, calendar, scheduling, integrations, real-time data pipelines, and APIs. Design platform infrastructure, event-driven systems, and client-server protocols using Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms. Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams, improve reliability through testing and infrastructure as code, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop and maintain scalable Python software, integrations, and web applications. Collaborate with QA, IT operations, analysts, and stakeholders in an Agile/Scrum environment. Design technical solutions, translate workflows into requirements, participate in code reviews and Scrum ceremonies, optimize relational and non-relational database queries, troubleshoot production issues, and improve application performance and security.

Develops and deploys scalable cloud applications and services, including coding, testing, integration, debugging, and CI/CD automation. Designs cloud-native modules, creates comprehensive test plans, addresses application and system issues, and integrates emerging technologies. Works with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, managed cloud services, databases, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and containerization. Collaborates with project managers and development partners to deliver, operate, monitor, and support cloud engagements.

Build and operate Block’s data platform, including warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable Python services, developer tools, and Terraform infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish engineering standards, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, reliability, observability, usability, and data governance.

Build and operate a scalable data platform supporting warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop Python services, Terraform infrastructure, and developer tools for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish security and reliability patterns, set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Lead the development of an AI-powered platform for senior mental health, building systems for patient experience, and mentoring the engineering team.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

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.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop high-performance network edge software for TeraWave satellite communications Points of Presence. Responsibilities include building C/C++ packet-processing applications, optimizing line-rate performance at 100G/400G speeds, implementing routing protocols and tunneling, integrating SmartNIC and FPGA accelerators, and benchmarking dataplane performance. The role requires Linux systems programming, networking fundamentals, and proficiency in Rust, C, or C++.

Develop and maintain full-stack applications using Python, SQL, React, Java, and REST APIs. Build scalable backend services and data-driven features for water management platforms, working with large-scale time-series data. Collaborate with product, design, QA, and engineering teams; troubleshoot technical issues; participate in architecture decisions; review code; mentor junior engineers; and improve development practices using AI-assisted coding tools.