Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and maintain backend or full-stack services for Cadence’s remote patient monitoring platform. Collaborate with product owners, stakeholders, customers, and engineers to deliver scalable clinical care features, improve engineering standards and tooling, and support the platform’s continued growth.

Build and maintain automation, integrations, file-processing tools, migrations, and other software that reduces operational toil. Investigate root causes, resolve implementation and escalation issues, develop reusable solutions, and support systems through on-call participation. Partner with commercial, product, and engineering teams while using Ruby on Rails, APIs, workflow automation platforms, and AI-assisted development. The role also involves debugging, optimization, code quality, and ramping onto unfamiliar systems.

Build and maintain full-stack donor-facing giving forms, campaign tools, administrative features, and payment flows across Stripe, ACH, and digital wallets. Own features from technical design through deployment, testing, and production support. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners in an Agile environment, contribute to code quality and team initiatives, and participate in rotational support and on-call coverage.

Develops, tests, enhances, and troubleshoots software and database products. Collaborates with senior developers, project managers, and stakeholders throughout design, development, deployment, and code review. Writes unit tests, fixes defects, prototypes features, documents technical decisions, and participates in Agile sprints. The role requires strong programming skills, a bachelor's degree, and the ability to obtain and maintain an active Secret clearance.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop software using Ruby, Javascript, and support AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include maintaining and building applications, contributing to high-end software releases, and mentoring other engineers.

Build and scale backend data platforms and services for real-time loan origination and financial reporting. Lead quarterly delivery, guide engineers, define technical plans, collaborate with product and design partners, improve reliability and operational practices, monitor service metrics, participate in on-call support, uphold engineering quality standards, and mentor team members. The role requires developing highly available distributed systems and scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Kubernetes, Spark, and Airflow.

Leads the design and development of a highly distributed edge computing platform using Go, Kubernetes, microservices, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building scalable and fault-tolerant systems, designing APIs, conducting code reviews, troubleshooting complex distributed software issues, optimizing performance and security, collaborating cross-functionally, mentoring engineers, planning projects, and maintaining technical documentation.

Leads the roadmap, architecture, security, and organizational adoption of CI/CD and release infrastructure. Designs scalable release gates, hardens supply chains, directs engineers through complex projects, manages severe incidents, and drives cross-functional technical alignment. The role remains hands-on through code reviews, prototyping, debugging, documentation, mentorship, and design reviews while primarily achieving impact through team leadership.

Develop and support a cloud-native workload credentials management solution within a SaaS platform. Responsibilities include designing scalable full-stack services, orchestration, APIs, distributed systems, and microservices; providing technical leadership; leading projects through delivery; collaborating cross-functionally; mentoring engineers; and applying engineering best practices. The role requires extensive Go development, cloud and SaaS expertise, modern JavaScript frameworks, and experience operating enterprise systems at scale.

Design, build, and operate distributed storage and file-system platforms for cloud-scale AI training and inference. Architect storage and caching for Kubernetes and GPU workloads, improve performance, reliability, observability, and resiliency, diagnose cross-layer production issues, and lead architecture reviews. Partner across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and AI platform teams while mentoring engineers and shaping long-term storage strategy.

Own and extend Airbnb’s Minerva semantic layer and data-authoring platform. Build core services, including query rewriting, and deliver reliable systems that help internal users define and consume business metrics. Scope ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, partner with users and product teams, evaluate data and database technologies, and manage design, implementation, testing, deployment, and on-call responsibilities.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Suwali, translating broad goals into practical plans and delivering work from exploration through deployment and follow-up. Collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues, assess user feedback and data, communicate progress clearly, and contribute to product decisions. The role requires production engineering across frontend and backend systems, with potential future responsibility for managing and mentoring engineers.

Build and architect scalable Android client code, UI frameworks, tooling, and server-driven UI architecture using Kotlin, Compose, GraphQL, and related technologies. Establish engineering best practices, automated testing, and modernization strategies; collaborate across client and server teams; influence architecture roadmaps; mentor engineers; and deliver forward-looking technical solutions with minimal supervision. The role supports Netflix experiences across millions of users and thousands of devices.

Develop and maintain Java backend services, APIs, and microservices within Guidewire ClaimCenter. Lead Gosu-to-Java transformation initiatives using LLM developer tools, analyze ClaimCenter configurations and integrations, and collaborate with insurance stakeholders. Responsibilities include architecture, code reviews, mentoring, testing, CI/CD, documentation, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. The role requires strong Java, Guidewire ClaimCenter, Gosu, REST, and software engineering expertise, with preferred experience in cloud, messaging, containers, and insurance claims workflows.

Build and own React Native features for Kraken’s consumer mobile app, from product discovery through launch, measurement, and iteration. Collaborate with Product and Design to create responsive financial experiences using APIs and real-time data. Contribute to architecture, state management, performance, reliability, code reviews, and technical direction. Help launch a new app for Asian markets by applying regional UX knowledge and addressing firewall, connectivity, vendor, and tooling constraints.

Own and re-architect Filevine’s end-to-end CI/CD systems across .NET, Python, and Svelte. Build internal developer tooling, improve testing and feedback cycles, enhance local development and onboarding, instrument DORA delivery metrics, and introduce AI-assisted development practices. The role includes infrastructure-as-code, containerization, mentorship, cross-team process improvement, and on-call ownership for delivered systems.

The Staff Software Engineer will build and maintain GoGuardian's Safety product suite, lead architectural decisions, mentor developers, and champion AI adoption in engineering workflows.

Build and architect Alpaca’s high-performance algorithmic trading platform. Responsibilities include writing backend and frontend code, designing distributed and highly available systems, optimizing low-latency and high-throughput performance, and developing scalable databases, messaging systems, concurrency controls, and service-oriented architectures. The role also involves making critical platform decisions and potentially contributing to order and risk management, trading systems, observability, cloud infrastructure, and financial ledger capabilities.

Develop and assure safety-critical software for autonomous ground vehicles. Perform hazard analyses including FHA, FMEA, FMECA, FTA, and robotic capability assessments; define safety architectures, requirements, mechanisms, and verification activities; support testing, technical reviews, and safety audits. Collaborate across engineering teams on MIL-STD-882E processes, model-based safety, embedded systems, AI/ML, and autonomous vehicle capabilities while communicating safety considerations and technical progress.

Develop, test, and ship features for patient-facing applications, booking systems, clinical operations tools, and internal platforms. Collaborate with senior engineers on implementation, code reviews, debugging, troubleshooting, and automation for scheduling and patient engagement workflows. Build foundational experience with mobile applications, healthcare data systems, APIs, databases, version control, and production software while contributing to a collaborative engineering team.

Design, build, and maintain scalable applications, APIs, mobile platforms, booking systems, clinical integrations, and healthcare data systems. Own features end to end, make architectural decisions, improve security and reliability, and contribute to cloud deployment, CI/CD, monitoring, and DevOps. Collaborate with clinical, operations, and patient experience teams to deliver secure digital tools that improve patient care and clinic efficiency.

Owns the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of production software. Builds C#/.NET backend services, Angular web applications, and .NET MAUI mobile apps; optimizes SQL Server databases; resolves production issues; improves reliability, security, performance, and observability; writes tests and documentation; participates in code reviews; and translates ambiguous business needs into maintainable technical solutions.