Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own production bugs, escalations, and enhancements for AI agent products. Investigate issues across logs, code, conversation data, telephony, integrations, authentication, APIs, and LLM prompting; implement, test, and ship fixes. Support customers directly, coordinate testing, guide frontline support engineers, build internal investigation tools, and relay feedback to Product while meeting SLAs.

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.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize high-performance iOS and macOS applications using SwiftUI. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver reliable user experiences for artists, managers, and touring crews. Apply testing strategies, ensure application stability across devices and workflows, and stay current with SwiftUI and software development trends.

Leads development and sustainment of the DOW logistics application using Java, JavaScript, and SQL. Designs application components, integrations, backend services, and system architecture; provides technical guidance; troubleshoots issues; improves performance; enforces code quality; collaborates with QA, DevSecOps, and systems engineers; and maintains technical documentation.

Owns day-to-day database operations and backup/recovery for a large multi-account AWS environment. Maintains RDS, Aurora, and self-managed databases, validates backup restoration, executes disaster-recovery runbooks, and collaborates with infrastructure, security, Kubernetes, networking, and cloud architecture teams. Supports escalations from a 24x7 monitoring team and helps advance managed services and Cloud Center of Excellence capabilities.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Build product features and improve technology platforms supporting claims processing and payment. Collaborate with subject matter experts, operations, and technology teams to design solutions that improve member experiences, operational efficiency, and provider relationships. The role requires individual technical contribution, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to work across a broad technology stack in a fast-paced startup environment.

Own developer productivity across a large monorepo and the path to production. Improve build, test, deployment, and coverage workflows; enable teams to ship safely and quickly; support multi-cloud and multi-region expansion; and strengthen operational excellence. The role requires delivering framework-level improvements across teams while contributing to backend feature code and working directly with customers on complex scaling challenges.

Design, develop, secure, and maintain mission-critical Microsoft-platform software for DoD programs. Build C# and .NET applications, responsive JavaScript and EXT JS interfaces, REST APIs, and optimized SQL Server databases. Apply secure coding, STIG, RMF, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, documentation, and compliance practices. Integrate Kiro AI capabilities, collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams, and support deployment and sustainment in classified or controlled environments.

Build Exoware’s production infrastructure from the ground up, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, recovery, CI/CD, monitoring, telemetry, security, and operational tooling. Design reliable systems across Kubernetes, ECS, cloud services, networking, and storage while writing software to automate operations. The role requires architectural ownership, production infrastructure experience, and the ability to improve the underlying distributed systems through production insights.