Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Owns end-to-end development of customer platform features, including Go backend systems, REST/gRPC APIs, entitlements, policies, and onboarding services. Collaborates across engineering teams, extends AI-powered customer experiences, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives product-focused delivery in ambiguous environments.

Leads software development for healthcare solutions, implementing customer-focused applications and collaborating with R&D teams. Builds enterprise Java/Kotlin applications, full-stack web applications, component libraries, REST API integrations, and cloud-hosted systems. The role requires experience with Spring, PostgreSQL, React or Angular, AWS, healthcare or EMR integration, Agile development, test automation, and unit testing. Occasional travel may be required, including company-paid onboarding travel.

Develop and deploy onboard swarm autonomy: perception, planning, control, multi-target tracking, inter-robot/C2 protocols, on-vehicle software integration, realistic UxS simulation, train and test ML-based target recognition, and electronics prototyping. Travel for test events up to 25%.

Develop and maintain automated integration test harnesses for OpenStack, cloud infrastructure, and multi-service API applications. Automate smoke, CLI/TUI, GUI, and comprehensive parallel tests across microservice versions and production-like environments. Collaborate with software engineers, SREs, and subject matter experts to define test priorities, integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, identify coverage gaps, and document test cases. The role requires strong software testing experience, automation development skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Kustomize, virtualization, and storage systems.

Build and operate Netflix Cloud developer platforms, infrastructure-as-code systems, Tier-0 control planes, and AI-agent sandboxing primitives. Own the developer experience across the software delivery lifecycle, make product and platform design decisions, and ensure reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency. The role requires production ownership of developer platforms, strong distributed-systems expertise, comfort with ambiguity, and proficiency across multi-language, multi-service codebases.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Design, build, and scale backend services and integrations for payment, billing, identity, and partner systems. Own API scoping, design, implementation, deployment, and production operations with minimal oversight. Build fault-tolerant systems, data pipelines, and scalable architectures while collaborating with product, design, engineering, and external partners. Contribute to reliability monitoring, observability, automation, technical standards, and mentoring in a distributed team.

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, test, and maintain enterprise integrations and automations across procurement, finance, and supply chain systems using MuleSoft and Zip iPaaS. Develop Python tools, write and optimize SQL, collaborate with stakeholders, ensure scalability and security, monitor production integrations, and contribute to documentation and DevOps practices.

Designs and builds highly scalable, fault-tolerant Azure compute services, microservices, REST APIs, billing pipelines, and distributed systems. Responsibilities include improving availability, security, scalability, performance, disaster recovery, and compute utilization; using telemetry and data-driven insights; developing cloud-native solutions with containers, NoSQL, and Big Data technologies; and leveraging AI-assisted development in an Agile environment.

Design and build backend services and APIs for identity resolution and platform integrations. Optimize event-driven pipelines processing billions of signals, deploy cloud-native services on AWS EKS and Kubernetes, and ensure reliability, observability, and scalability. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data teams to deliver identity solutions while mentoring junior engineers. The role requires expertise in backend or data engineering, distributed systems, streaming technologies, cloud deployment, data modeling, and high-throughput databases.

Own end-to-end full-stack product features using TypeScript, Node.js, React, Python, Kafka, and distributed systems. Design data models, backend services, event pipelines, interfaces, auditability, security controls, and AI agent experiences for a regulated fintech product. Operate production systems, collaborate with AI engineers, and help establish engineering practices on a small remote team.

Design and lead development of high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference in Azure. Architect low-latency, low-jitter communication frameworks, optimize distributed systems, benchmark scalability, resolve complex networking issues, and improve reliability, observability, and performance. Mentor engineers, create technical designs, manage dependencies, and participate in on-call operations for critical services.

Build and own scalable full-stack cloud-native services and web frontends on AWS for healthcare imaging workflows. Shape architecture and technical direction, implement automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and security, and ensure compliance with HL7, DICOM, and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Clinical teams while mentoring developers and supporting reliable production software.

Build and operate automation and tooling for large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure. Responsibilities include bare-metal provisioning, hardware validation, firmware and software upgrades, cluster lifecycle management, BMC and Redfish integration, failure diagnosis, reliability engineering, incident response, and automated repair. The role works across hardware, networking, Linux, Kubernetes, data center operations, and partner teams to safely bring GPU capacity into production.

Build and ship AI-powered automation features, third-party integrations, full-stack web applications, and cloud infrastructure. Design background job processing systems, improve reliability and observability, address security risks, contribute product ideas, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires strong TypeScript skills, experience scaling AWS systems with infrastructure as code, and proficiency with React, Node.js, and Postgres.

Leads architecture and development of Azure Storage table, metadata, and indexing systems at massive cloud scale. Designs distributed-system primitives for partitioning, indexing, transactions, consistency, replication, caching, and high-performance data access. Drives architectural decisions, prototypes innovations through production, and improves performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency. Requires deep expertise in distributed storage, databases, or large-scale systems.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

Lead development, testing, and maintenance of scalable accounting integrations using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS serverless technologies. Design REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth flows, and event-driven systems that synchronize data with external accounting platforms. Diagnose complex issues, improve reliability and performance, document systems, and mentor junior engineers. Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly while managing multiple priorities and supporting high-volume integrations.

Own and improve Attentive's first-party data collection across the JS tag, Cloudflare Workers, and Java backend. Expand edge compute capabilities, build agentic AI systems to detect and fix data-quality issues, harden the event ingestion pipeline for reliability and observability, and lead technical direction on a small autonomous team while mentoring engineers.

Principal Engineer responsible for owning complex software initiatives from problem framing through architecture, implementation, deployment, production support, and continuous improvement. The role involves building web applications, services, APIs, MCP servers, data pipelines, and platform integrations; leading architecture and code reviews; improving security, reliability, and maintainability; mentoring engineers; and shaping technical strategy. The engineer will also use and improve AI-assisted development practices while maintaining human accountability for quality and operational outcomes.

Lead design and hands-on development of AWS-based serverless backend and IoT cloud services. Build Python Lambda microservices, REST APIs, telemetry pipelines, and secure AWS IoT Core device communication. Mentor engineers, define architecture patterns, ensure production readiness (monitoring, CI/CD, security), and guide cross-functional integrations and technical roadmaps.

Leads the design and development of scalable SaaS applications, including AI-powered features such as semantic search, vector databases, RAG, and LLM orchestration. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, code reviews, and engineering standards enforcement. Collaborates cross-functionally to translate requirements into robust solutions, champions AI-assisted development tools, builds developer experience tooling, and drives innovation, quality, security, and continuous improvement across the engineering organization.

Design and develop high-performance dataplane software for the TeraWave satellite communications network. Responsibilities include C/C++ packet processing with DPDK and VPP, line-rate optimization at 100G/400G, routing and tunneling integration, hardware accelerator interfaces, distributed dataplane architecture, benchmarking, code reviews, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.

Develop and ship full-stack web and mobile experiences across Affirm’s consumer app and website. Collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to break down projects, make technical decisions, write tested and extensible code, launch scalable APIs, monitor service health, support on-call operations, review code, and participate in team development and interviewing.