Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

As a Founding Engineer, you'll design and build backend services, improve cloud infrastructure, and contribute to sustainable software solutions for the fishing industry.

Design, develop, test, and deploy .NET solutions (APIs and web apps). Build and consume RESTful services, work with SQL and NoSQL databases, use cloud (Azure/AWS) and Docker, apply unit/integration/performance testing, participate in code reviews, define features via spikes, and architect scalable, high-performance systems. Support occasional after-hours and on-call rotation.

The Software Engineer will develop and operate the Praetorian Guard platform, implement backend and frontend solutions, and collaborate with security engineers on features and scalability.

Build and maintain front-end and back-end platform features for a SaaS compliance product using React, TypeScript, and Go. Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leads to design relational schemas, write reliable code, debug defects, and automate repetitive tasks to improve team velocity and software quality.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

The Software Engineer in Platform Operations designs and manages core infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable platform operations while collaborating with software engineers to improve deployment experiences.

As a Full Stack Software Engineer at Doxel, you will design and develop full-stack applications, collaborating cross-functionally to optimize user experiences and facilitate data processing for construction projects.

Lead technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Design scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; write code; make architecture trade-offs; solve complex production issues; improve engineering quality; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers across teams.

Owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes production code; drives architecture decisions; resolves complex engineering problems; improves testing, security, observability, and development practices; and mentors engineers across teams. The role requires leading major initiatives from design through production in a globally distributed environment.

Owns technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable, reliable architectures across backend, frontend, APIs, databases, and infrastructure; writes code; leads architecture decisions; resolves production issues; improves engineering quality; and mentors engineers across teams. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong system design, and experience delivering complex production systems in distributed international teams.

Build end-to-end production features across backend, frontend, and database. Integrate LLM APIs and agentic workflows into products and internal developer tools. Improve CI/CD, deployment, and developer infrastructure. Debug production issues on GCP and containerized services; participate in code reviews and architecture discussions on a small collaborative team.

Own frontend architecture for multi-tenant applications serving internal, customer, and partner audiences. Build React and TypeScript interfaces, shared component libraries, theming and branding systems, accessible user experiences, and integrations with governed APIs. Establish engineering standards, document technical decisions, navigate open architecture questions, and support workflows ranging from immediate interactions to longer approval processes involving sensitive or regulated data.

Build and improve a browser extension and serverless backend using a strongly-typed functional stack. Design algorithms to locate page elements, extract structured data, and integrate AI for web automation. Collaborate on a small distributed team focused on usability and reliability.

Own and deliver major features across the flight booking funnel: flight search, booking creation, and post-booking fulfillment. Implement award ticket pricing, point transfers, and integrations with airlines and GDS partners. Collaborate with the flights expert to scale routing, booking engines, and partnership integrations.

As a Compiler Engineer, you'll enhance compiler performance, support multiple operating systems, develop toolchains, ensure interoperability, and contribute to open source.

As a Software Engineer at MerusCase, you will develop and enhance software features, collaborate with teams, troubleshoot issues, and uphold coding standards while mentoring junior engineers.

As a Software Engineer - L3 Support, you will resolve complex Ubuntu-related issues, collaborate with teams, and participate in upstream communities to drive bug fixes and improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you will resolve complex customer issues related to Ubuntu and open source software, participate in upstream communities, and develop and review code across multiple layers of the software stack.

Join Aleph's engineering team to develop the Core Product, focusing on user-facing features for financial data insights. Collaborate with leadership, design robust software components, and contribute to system architecture in a fast-paced, remote environment.

The Software Engineer (Frontend) at Metabase will develop user-friendly data tools, leveraging React and CSS while ensuring optimal communication and coding practices.

Seeking exceptional software engineers to build and maintain user-friendly backend systems primarily in Clojure and JavaScript, focusing on product complexities and user experience.

Design, build, and operate core platform infrastructure for an Agentic AI platform. Collaborate with cross-functional and ML teams to enable scalable, high-performance systems, provide production support and troubleshooting, and drive platform features that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Join a remote Strategic Projects engineering team to turn AI-native prototypes into production-grade services. You will harden demos (LLM gateways, proxies, sandboxes), implement observability, error handling, and security practices, work with reference customers on integrations, and ensure agent-generated code meets production review and operational standards.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale, cloud-native services powering millions of devices. Architect solutions for scalability and integration, own full service lifecycle in Kubernetes, mentor engineers, participate in on-call support, and drive engineering best practices across cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications for payroll and accounting. Collaborate with engineers and product partners, write tested code, participate in code reviews, contribute to architecture, improve CI/CD and monitoring, support production (including on-call), and communicate progress while continuously learning.