Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Develop and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs using .NET Core/.NET 5+, collaborate with React frontend teams, write unit and integration tests, query SQL Server/PostgreSQL databases, participate in code reviews and agile processes, and use AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity.

Develop, maintain, and operate Mission Control web app and supporting microservices for satellite operations. Design and implement HTTP APIs, deploy critical infrastructure, and improve automation. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure satellite scheduling, telemetry processing, and operational tooling meet mission needs. Support CI/CD, testing, and database-backed services.

Build, maintain, and operate cloud-based services and automation for satellite operations. Manage infrastructure, design/deploy critical systems, support microservices and CI/CD workflows, ensure reliability and SLAs, collaborate with cross-functional teams to minimize operational burden and automate satellite operations.

Build and scale backend systems and APIs for Segment CDP, collaborate with product and design, identify performance bottlenecks, improve reliability, participate in on-call rotation, and drive architectural decisions balancing velocity and stability.

Design, develop, and optimize flight and embedded software for bare-metal, RTOS, and real-time Linux platforms. Implement space-grade communication protocols and deterministic Ethernet/avionics fabrics, build automated HIL/SIL/PIL test frameworks, support debugging and validation, and integrate applications across multi-board embedded systems with robust firmware update and recovery mechanisms.

Design, develop, and maintain embedded software, collaborate with hardware engineers, optimize performance, and troubleshoot issues for high-quality products.

Lead a team of 3-4 engineers to build scalable ad platform services, APIs, and SDKs. Drive architecture and technical direction, collaborate with Product and ML teams, enforce engineering standards, perform design and code reviews, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, and participate in hiring and team development.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

As a Senior Software Engineer in ZT1, you will lead backend system development, manage projects, and influence product direction in a fast-paced, AI-centric environment.

Responsible for leading a team to improve developer productivity, managing projects, and ensuring high-quality code delivery while collaborating across teams.

Design and build scalable, reliable backend systems and third-party integrations for provider-patient workflows and telehealth. Drive development lifecycle, solve complex technical challenges, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure performance, security, and availability.

Design, build, and operate multi-tenant elastic storage control-plane services. Ensure high availability and performance, run observability and on-call practices, lead complex projects, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to scaling services handling petabytes of data.

Develop and maintain Java applications for DoD systems, focusing on backend services, REST APIs, and microservices, while ensuring security and performance.

The Software Engineer will develop customer-facing integrations, build APIs, enhance security, and improve system reliability while collaborating with multiple teams.

Contribute to the design and implementation of SMTP relay infrastructure, ensuring performance and reliability for email services and collaborating with teams to meet customer needs.

Design, develop, and optimize platform-level embedded software and reusable frameworks for telecom products (including 5G). Collaborate across systems teams, perform architecture and code reviews, support integrations with customers/partners, and mentor engineers while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability on heterogeneous processors.

Design, build, and operate highly available, high-throughput backend services for Twilio SendGrid. Modernize Go-based microservices, manage dual-cloud AWS/Azure infrastructure with Terraform, improve observability and reliability, mentor engineers, and balance feature delivery with platform refactoring.

Design and evolve data pipelines, ensure accuracy of business datasets, improve data reliability, and partner across teams to provide insights and solutions.

As a Software Engineer III, you'll develop custom software for government clients, teaching Agile practices, delivering software solutions, and ensuring client satisfaction through collaboration and feedback.

The Software Engineer will design and maintain networking software services for secure connectivity, improve system reliability, partner cross-functionally, and debug production issues.

As a Principal .NET Software Engineer at Versapay, you will modernize payments infrastructure, improve scalability, design distributed services, and take ownership of payment workflows while collaborating with various teams to enhance customer experience.

Develop and enhance the new Stores platform while supporting various e-commerce tools to improve seller success online.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Archy, you will lead major product updates, ensuring system stability and scalability, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance dental practice management solutions.

As a Staff Frontend Software Engineer, you'll lead the frontend architecture using React and TypeScript, manage code releases, and integrate AI tools to enhance efficiency while ensuring high performance and system reliability.

As a Senior Frontend Software Engineer, you'll lead the development of major features using React and TypeScript, ensuring performance and integration with backend systems. You'll also manage releases, improve team efficiency, and contribute to a customer-centric product experience.