Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and operate secure, scalable backend services for OnePay’s co-branded credit card product. Design APIs and event-driven systems, integrate partner platforms, ensure regulatory and security compliance, and own reliability for real-time credit transactions. Collaborate with risk, compliance, and platform teams, make architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve code quality, testing, and operational practices.

Build performant, accessible front-end interfaces for AI agents, dashboards, conversational user interfaces, and visualization tools. Collaborate with designers, AI engineers, and backend developers to create scalable components, optimize cross-browser experiences, and iterate on UX using testing, feedback, and usage data.

Build and maintain MongoDB’s distributed database infrastructure for cluster scalability. Design data partitioning, data movement, dynamic scaling, workload execution, and resilient distributed protocols. Solve complex performance and low-latency systems problems, contribute production-quality C++ code, participate in design and code reviews, lead new feature development, and mentor engineers.

Software Engineering Interns contribute to production TypeScript backend features, applied AI and computer vision pipelines, and end-to-end deployments to active mining sites. Responsibilities include using LLMs, AWS Rekognition, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; translating user challenges into product features; and collaborating closely with senior engineers and leadership. The role is fully remote and emphasizes ownership, autonomy, and shipping real-world software.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel for its cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications across kernel versions; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, hardware, and test teams; and contributing changes upstream to the Linux community.

Develop fullstack web applications, enhance platform performance, collaborate on high-impact opportunities, and ensure stable, scalable solutions. Engage in rapid iterations and be a committed team player.

Build and operate WISEcode’s food data lakehouse using Python, SQL, DuckLake, S3 Parquet, Postgres, and Prefect. Responsibilities include source ingestion, entity resolution, pipeline consolidation, data enrichment, downstream connectors, data quality reporting, configuration discipline, and architectural documentation. The role requires designing and shipping production lakehouse or warehouse systems, managing scalable API-driven pipelines, and collaborating closely with engineers in a fully remote environment.

Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance software systems and public-facing APIs. Lead system design, apply agentic coding workflows, collaborate with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers, and own initiatives improving efficiency, performance, and customer satisfaction. The role requires extensive experience with highly available distributed systems, API versioning and rate limiting, modern backend and frontend technologies, AWS, and Domain-Driven Design.

Develop and deploy life-saving technologies as a fullstack engineer, focusing on web applications for public safety, collaborating with various engineering disciplines and leveraging customer feedback.

Build and maintain full-stack features across core financial platforms using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks. Design scalable systems, implement front-end interfaces and back-end APIs, write automated tests, optimize performance, resolve bugs, participate in code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and guide junior engineers while using AI-assisted development tools.

Develop and optimize low-level embedded software and firmware for wireless communication systems. Integrate WiFi and 5G/LTE modules, support board bring-up, and validate hardware-software interactions. Optimize CPU, DSP, FPGA, and power performance; implement secure boot and OTA firmware updates; debug complex subsystem interactions; and collaborate with hardware and cross-functional teams. Maintain technical documentation and participate in code reviews.

Lead complex software projects and mentor engineers while building scalable full-stack products for Vanta’s expansion team. Develop purchasing, checkout, upgrade, renewal, billing, and trial experiences that support self-serve growth and revenue automation. Set technical direction, own product functionality and infrastructure, collaborate across teams, and contribute to engineering culture. The role uses TypeScript, React, and Node.js and involves greenfield development in a rapidly scaling startup environment.

Build and own backend services, web applications, REST APIs, webhooks, and enterprise integrations. Lead customer integrations from scoping through launch, improve the operator dashboard, and maintain production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with product, success, and customer engineering teams while contributing to code reviews, technical design, mentoring, security, and AI-assisted development.

Build and maintain scalable full-stack web application features and distributed microservices. Own complex features from design through deployment, improve application performance and reliability, support on-call operations, troubleshoot incidents, enhance CI/CD and container infrastructure, and collaborate with product, design, infrastructure, and API teams. Mentor engineers and contribute to technical standards while delivering customer-focused shipping and fulfillment experiences.

Build and operate Origin’s AI observability platform across data-collection agents, backend services, infrastructure, inference pipelines, APIs, and React interfaces. Design distributed systems using AWS, EKS, ClickHouse, and Kafka for high-throughput, multi-tenant production workloads. Develop internal coding agents and define AI-native engineering practices while making decisions around storage, APIs, performance, and reliability.

Lead, coach, and mentor ServiceNow software engineers delivering complex customer projects. Develop and customize ServiceNow solutions, troubleshoot platform and module issues, maintain integrations, support upgrades and performance optimization, document technical solutions, and perform deployments. The role requires advanced ServiceNow development expertise and SAM/HAM experience, along with ServiceNow certifications.

Build and ship full-stack features used by learners and tutors worldwide. Responsibilities include understanding user problems, contributing product ideas, taking prototypes through deployment, making technical decisions, writing maintainable code, and participating in code reviews and pairing sessions. The role requires close collaboration with designers, stakeholders, and users while supporting a safe, scalable peer-learning platform.

Develop and enhance full-stack digital products across frontend and backend systems. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining applications, contributing to CI/CD and cloud-native practices, and collaborating through Agile ceremonies, paired programming, and knowledge sharing. Senior and Lead engineers additionally mentor teams, influence technical strategy, guide system design, and drive cross-product engineering direction.

Build and operate production custody systems: signing service, key management, chain integrations, and transaction pipelines. Own end-to-end subsystems, integrate new chains, collaborate with cryptography on threshold signing and key recovery, write post-mortems, and produce clear async design docs and PRs.

Build and scale Bubble’s backend infrastructure and platform services, improving performance, reliability, observability, capacity management, and data scalability. Contribute to workflow engines, data-tier systems, cloud infrastructure tools, and high-volume services. Participate in triage and on-call processes, diagnose incidents, and implement preventative improvements while collaborating effectively with engineering teammates.

Develop secure native iOS applications for identity and access management products. Build intuitive interfaces using SwiftUI, UIKit, and Storyboards; apply scalable architecture and concurrency patterns; and collaborate with engineers and security experts. Responsibilities include implementing mobile security features, secure networking, cryptography, release pipelines, performance optimization, and app hardening while taking ownership of complex technical challenges.

Lead the development of Runware's serverless platform by building core systems for AI workload management and providing technical guidance to the team.

Lead development of Runware’s AI platform, including scalable backend APIs, SDKs, developer tools, and inference orchestration systems. Design high-performance distributed architectures, optimize image and video model integrations, improve reliability and observability, shape technical direction, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to deliver robust developer experiences and maintainable systems.

Lead as a customer‑embedded principal engineer to design, build, and ship production-grade solutions. Translate business needs into technical approaches, influence senior stakeholders, accelerate delivery in ambiguous environments, and transition work to FDE crews while driving long-term account impact.

Leads software design and development for Windows Core OS services and platforms. Partners with stakeholders to define requirements, identifies dependencies, creates design documents, and mentors engineers in producing maintainable code. Drives cross-product project and release planning, serves as a designated responsible individual, participates in on-call operations, and improves system availability, reliability, observability, efficiency, and performance.