Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

Build and own end-to-end patient onboarding features that improve acquisition, registration, eligibility verification, and conversion. Partner with Product, Design, Analytics, and engineers to run experiments, ship scalable frontend/backend systems, optimize performance and resilience, and iterate based on data to improve patient outcomes.

Lead frontend-leaning full-stack implementation work for carrier and enterprise integrations: architect reusable UI and API layers, author RFCs, guide technical delivery, enforce testing and security best practices, and partner with cross-functional teams to scope and ship production integrations.

Build and own Eve's marketing site and GTM engineering stack: integrate and optimize external tools, design AI agents for sales and marketing, implement webhooks and middleware to sync product/CRM data, and create programmatic campaigns and internal tools in partnership with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Product to drive growth and automation.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Trust & Safety, you'll analyze threats, design systems for abuse detection, and collaborate with teams to implement scalable defenses.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable full‑stack systems. Contribute to API and architecture design, write testable code, debug complex issues, improve performance, automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable systems and APIs across a primarily TypeScript stack. Deliver features independently, improve performance and observability, contribute to architecture and CI/CD, debug complex issues, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and maintain scalable integration and end-to-end test automation frameworks, optimize CI pipelines and test execution, improve test stability and reporting, support engineering teams with triage and best practices, write technical specs/ADRs, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the company test strategy.

Develop and implement full stack features for a healthcare platform, focusing on both frontend (React) and backend (Node.js) development. Responsible for performance optimization, API creation, testing, and collaboration with data engineering teams.

Lead Embedded Software Engineer overseeing software architecture, writing production firmware, mentoring engineers, and ensuring quality in IoT satellite connectivity solutions.

Develop and enhance infrastructure using Rust and C++, ensuring high-performance applications with a focus on memory safety and concurrency.

Design, build, and operate Netflix Cloud developer platforms and Tier-0 control planes. Drive platform product decisions across the SDLC, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost control. Develop sandboxing, identity, and governance primitives for safe AI/agent interactions. Partner across engineering orgs to scale adoption and define platform defaults and guardrails.

As a backend engineer, you will enhance data collection systems to ensure reliability and scalability, working closely with engineering and mission teams.

Support and maintain high-availability Netflix apps and device firmware across multiple TV platforms. Manage app store updates, investigate monitoring alerts and JS component canaries, execute configuration and CI updates, develop playbooks, and drive automation and tooling improvements to reduce operational drag.

Design and implement high-quality iOS features and core infrastructure using Swift and advanced UIKit/Core Animation APIs. Architect maintainable client code, write automated tests (XCTest, XCUITest), run A/B experiments, and collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver performant, accessible user experiences.

Build and operate resilient, high-scale, low-latency microservices and APIs (gRPC/GraphQL/REST) using OO languages (Java/C#). Design data models, optimize concurrency and performance, ensure observability, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support content promotion, localization, and distribution workflows at Netflix.

Build and maintain scalable build and test automation tools and services to improve developer productivity. Automate manual development tasks, collaborate cross-functionally, set technical direction, and drive adoption of code quality and testing best practices.

Develop and maintain scalable build and test automation tools and services, automate manual development workflows, support mobile device labs, collaborate cross-functionally to deploy developer productivity tooling, and drive adoption of code quality and testing best practices.

Design and build large-scale ad tech systems across inventory, serving, measurement, forecasting, identity, and campaign management. Drive architecture, set technical direction, collaborate with ad operations and cross-functional partners, and deliver high-performance, privacy-safe cloud services and data pipelines for Netflix Ads.

Senior software engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and operating scalable systems for targeting and policy. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define requirements, builds backend services, ensures reliability and performance, mentors engineers, and drives technical roadmap and operational excellence.

Build and scale Netflix's in-house ad tech: ad serving, inventory/forecasting, campaign management, reporting, identity and audiences, and platform foundations. Collaborate with ad ops, product, and cross-functional teams to design architectures, implement cloud-based systems, run A/B experiments, and deliver high-performance, privacy-aware advertising solutions across client platforms.

Build and maintain high-quality playback systems and automation for Netflix on Apple devices. Design and implement testing frameworks, automation, and AI-assisted workflows for media playback, DRM, ads, live streams, and multi-track audio/subtitle handling. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive test strategy, data-driven validation, and measurable improvements in streaming experience at scale.

Early-stage PhD intern to research and improve scalability, latency, and quality of Netflix Live streaming. Design and evaluate adaptive streaming algorithms, collaborate cross-functionally (CDN, encoding, data science, UI), run controlled experiments, and contribute to system architecture. Requires background in computer networking, network measurement, or encoding technologies; 12-week full-time summer placement with possible extended collaboration.

Build and operate Ads Reporting Infrastructure: design low-latency, highly available event ingestion and streaming pipelines that process billions of ad events daily. Ensure data accuracy with monitoring, alerting, and auditing. Integrate with ad tech (SSPs/DSPs/Ad Servers), real-time analytics (Apache Druid), and stream-processing frameworks to support measurement, serving, pacing, budgeting, and reporting workflows.

Design and build scalable developer tools and services with a front-end focus. Drive system design to deployment, revamp existing tooling, troubleshoot full-stack issues, collaborate with product and design, and integrate solutions into developer workflows to improve feedback loops and validation at scale.