Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Software Engineer at Canonical, you will design, build, and ship software, improve packaging and distribution processes, and mentor colleagues while contributing to open source projects.

The Junior Ubuntu Software Engineer will design, build, and ship software, focusing on quality and resilience, while engaging with the open source community.

The role involves building and managing scalable distributed systems for Twilio's email platform, mentoring junior members, and improving system performance and security.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, build and own the onboarding experience for Twilio's Stytch identity product, creating secure integration solutions for developers and enhancing customer authentication.

As a Software Engineer, you will develop and maintain Python and C# API services, mentor junior developers, and collaborate in Agile teams to deliver software solutions in healthcare communication.

Develop and maintain web applications using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS. Build with JavaScript MVC frameworks (Ember.js, jQuery), SASS, and Git. Integrate RESTful APIs, produce documentation and well-commented code, collaborate with designers, and work independently on projects.

Build and maintain backend microservices and content ingestion pipelines. Design and implement RESTful APIs and web services using Java and Spring. Work with NoSQL stores (Cassandra, Solr) and messaging/event systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka). Collaborate cross-functionally to improve system architecture and support customer-facing and internal services.

Design and build platforms for new products, develop generative AI features, ensure system reliability, and foster a collaborative culture in a startup environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design best practices for AI Agents, develop standards, collaborate on product opportunities, and stay updated on emerging Agent techniques.

As a Fullstack Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and scale systems, lead technical projects, and enhance mental health care access through software at Rula.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop scalable web applications, lead technical projects, design complex systems, and enhance engineering culture through mentoring and collaboration.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will lead product features from design to implementation while mentoring other engineers in AI-native workflows. Responsibilities include building scalable backend systems, creating responsive UIs, and driving architectural decisions in a high-urgency environment.

Design, develop, test, and optimize system software for next-generation ARM SoCs in pre- and post-silicon phases. Analyze system-wide performance bottlenecks, recommend HW/SW policies, perform competitive workload comparisons, and drive full-stack adoption of performance optimizations across NVIDIA software and OSS SDKs.

We are seeking 2025 and 2026 Graduate Software Engineers to join Canonical's teams focused on open source software. Responsibilities include product roadmapping, coding in various languages, engaging with the community, and ensuring high-quality performance. Candidates should have an exceptional academic track record and experience with Linux.

The role involves designing, building, and optimizing a data platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data quality and security.

Develop, configure, integrate, and operationalize command-and-control (C2) and Common Operating Picture (COP) applications. Build workflow automation, event management, alerting, data fusion, dashboards, and operator-focused UX. Support testing, interoperability validation, demonstrations, and operational readiness while collaborating with systems engineering and stakeholders.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable web and desktop applications (Electron) and Go microservices for torque monitoring, logging, and QA. Integrate industrial protocols (Modbus TCP, Siemens S7, MQTT), implement REST/WebSocket APIs, deploy containerized Linux services with Docker, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

Build and maintain integrations with cloud providers and third-party security tools; design data pipelines to normalize and validate diverse API inputs; implement authentication flows (OAuth2/OIDC/API keys); ensure reliability with error handling, retries, observability; document integrations and collaborate with engineering to deliver consistent data for downstream features.

Join cross-functional XP teams to deploy and adapt the Imogen platform into client public cloud environments. Pair-program, collaborate with client infosec and infrastructure teams, lead technical discovery, apply XP practices (TDD, CI/CD, pair programming), onboard and mentor engineers, build deployment tooling, participate in on-call rotations, and travel periodically for client engagements.

Build and enhance full‑stack cloud-native applications using Java/Spring and JavaScript/React. Own the full SDLC, apply TDD and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical direction as experience increases from contributor to Lead.

Evaluate and solve real-world backend, full-stack, systems, and infrastructure engineering tasks. Review, debug, and improve code across environments; design and assess APIs, databases, services, testing, and deployment workflows; identify tradeoffs around scalability, reliability, performance, security, and developer experience; communicate technical reasoning clearly and collaborate with customer teams.

Lead design and implementation of scalable backend services and member-facing APIs using Python/Django, PostgreSQL, BigQuery/dbt and GCP. Own infrastructure as code (Terraform), container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), async/event-driven systems, observability, and performance tuning. Mentor engineers, collaborate with Product and Data teams, and ensure secure, low-latency, AI-driven member experiences.

Design, develop, test, and support full-stack healthcare applications across the application stack. Modify and maintain existing software, enforce development best practices, participate in QA and SDLC processes, and collaborate with product, architecture, and support teams to deliver reliable solutions.

Develop and enhance networking systems software (including Junos/Junos Evolved) for Campus & Branch products. Design, code, test, and integrate software for operating systems, networking protocols, and forwarding ASICs; debug issues; collaborate with product, architects, and stakeholders to deliver reliable networking solutions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll support projects from conception to completion, build and extend React applications, and contribute to Vetcove's platform development.