Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Collaborate with a distributed team to develop, maintain, and modernize the Landscape management software for Ubuntu, focusing on quality code and automated testing.

Design, develop, test, and maintain networking systems software (Junos/Junos Evolved) and forwarding ASIC firmware. Implement and debug networking protocols (L2/L3/L4), collaborate with product teams, execute test plans, and communicate progress to stakeholders to deliver reliable networking solutions.

Architect and build highly available control-plane network services for TeraWave’s satellite communications network. Design microservices for subscriber provisioning and session management, develop stateful distributed systems across terrestrial data centers and orbital nodes, and optimize SQL, NoSQL, and time-series databases handling billions of telemetry points. The role also involves cloud-native Kubernetes deployments, service mesh, resiliency patterns, event-driven architecture, and large-scale observability.

The Senior SRE Engineer will design, build, and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, manage infrastructure-as-code, and write tooling in various languages.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Reacher, you'll own product features end-to-end, design scalable systems, mentor engineers, and lead architectural decisions in an AI-driven environment, focusing on both backend and frontend development.

Reacher seeks a Full Stack Software Engineer to lead product features, design scalable backend systems, mentor engineers in AI-native workflows, and enhance user experiences across the tech stack.

Responsible for designing and implementing authentication features in Go and TypeScript, enhancing Auth architecture, and collaborating with teams to improve user experience.

The Software Engineer II will build product features for financial services, focusing on user-facing features, backend services, and collaborating with the product team in a remote environment.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

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.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Lead hands-on full-stack development for Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React applications. Shape technical direction, design reliable APIs and data flows, optimize relational database performance, and deliver responsive front-end experiences. Lead projects end to end, mentor engineers, review and refactor code, collaborate cross-functionally, and explore AI-assisted engineering and LLM automation while protecting sensitive healthcare data.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.

Build, own, and operate cloud-native .NET services powering real-time trading, market data, and brokerage integrations. Ship features end-to-end, write tests, participate in on-call rotations, improve observability, and occasionally contribute to React/TypeScript frontend work.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, architecture, complex feature design, implementation, scalability, and greenfield development. The role mentors engineers, leads design and code reviews, drives technical alignment, addresses technical debt, participates in hiring, and remains a hands-on contributor to full-stack enterprise software development using technologies such as PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, and MySQL.

Lead end-to-end feature development across frontend and backend for an enterprise data analytics platform. Design, implement, and maintain React UIs, backend services, APIs, databases, and distributed systems. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Engineering, mentor engineers, improve quality through testing/CI, and introduce new technologies including AI-assisted development.

Design and own CI/CD and configuration management for a large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes fleet. Define GitOps-driven, declarative reference architectures and templated production environments. Implement progressive delivery (canary, automated rollback), improve pipeline reliability and speed, evolve the Internal Developer Portal, embed AI tooling into delivery workflows, and partner with Cloud, Security, and Compliance while mentoring senior engineers.

Build and maintain on-chain smart contracts and backend services for branded USDC-backed stablecoins. Own issuance, reserves, mint/burn, and rewards systems; drive architecture, security, and operational excellence; ship features with product and design partners and ensure well-tested, auditable production deployments.

Own quality engineering for high-throughput payment systems by architecting automated regression, performance, stress, and load testing. Build emulators for external payment systems, integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, validate microservices, event-driven architectures, and databases, and use Prometheus and Grafana for observability. Apply AI-assisted testing, synthetic data generation, and edge-case analysis while mentoring engineers and preventing incidents through telemetry-driven testing and post-mortems.

The Ground Software Engineer ensures successful satellite launch and operations by building command interfaces, telemetry tools, and backend software while collaborating on system architecture.

Build and maintain reliable, secure, scalable backend systems for Lithic’s product platform. Own projects end to end across API key management, reliability, audit logging, search, and API infrastructure. Improve system reliability, reduce technical debt, participate in on-call rotations, and lead team process improvements while collaborating asynchronously across time zones.

Build and operate highly scalable storage infrastructure supporting petabyte-scale imagery data. Responsibilities include developing backend services and APIs, managing object storage and metadata indexing, tuning Elasticsearch, improving disaster recovery, monitoring performance, responding to incidents, contributing to architecture and roadmaps, and advising engineers. The role requires strong production software engineering experience with Go or Python, cloud-native systems, relational and non-relational databases, and highly available services.

Build and deploy integrations between the Bayesian platform and large EHR systems, implement automated integration and end-to-end tests, support production deployments and go-lives, develop tooling and automation (including LLMs), and collaborate with implementation and clinical teams to deliver clinician-facing workflows.