Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

The role involves developing and maintaining integrations for workforce software, collaborating with HR and IT, and providing technical support.

Join Vanta as a Senior Software Engineer to lead and mentor teams, driving projects on identity systems and improving security infrastructure.

Lead architecture and build scalable, secure production services while championing AI-native development. Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, review PRs, and help evolve a legacy monolith to a modern stack in partnership with product and exec leadership.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems for metrics and monitoring, collaborate across teams, and debug production incidents.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and implement full-stack features, develop AI-driven workflows, and ensure code quality for a dental billing platform while collaborating with users to address their needs.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of a Civic Engagement product, establishing engineering practices and overseeing technical strategy across multiple teams and systems while ensuring product reliability and security.

Design and develop web applications, mentor teammates, shape architectural decisions, write clean code, conduct testing, and troubleshoot issues.

The role involves building data processing pipelines, deploying cloud technologies, and writing code in a Kubernetes environment, focusing on big data technologies.

Lead end-to-end platform engineering projects to build and operate a multi-tenant data lakehouse and scalable compute infrastructure, partner with cross-functional teams, improve reliability/observability, support platform users, and drive platform usability and ML/analytics enablement.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop features, maintain quality, review code, and collaborate on product design for the EnrollWise platform, focusing on back-end and some front-end work.

Develop and enhance features for EnrollWise, contribute to a scalable software architecture, review code, collaborate on design and technical feasibility, and maintain software quality.

Build and ship full-stack features in weekly loops, owning problems end-to-end from stakeholder discovery to production, using TypeScript/Node backend and React/React Native frontends, leveraging AI-paired tools, and making scalable architectural decisions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead architecture, delivery, and operation of large distributed telemetry databases. Define technical strategy, SLOs/SLIs, and reliability practices; drive performance, cost, and observability improvements; lead incident response and cross-team projects; mentor engineers; and represent engineering to stakeholders.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and APIs. Own large-scale projects from design to launch, enable low-latency real-time collaboration, integrate generative AI features, drive backend best practices, mentor engineers, and ensure reliability, performance, and security across products.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and develop IMS TM and DB-compatible technologies, providing architectural leadership and mentoring while optimizing mission-critical applications for modern environments.

Design and implement high-reliability embedded firmware for a satellite user terminal: low-level drivers, beamforming control, networking optimization, thermal and power management, secure boot/OTA, hardware debugging, and RTOS/Embedded Linux integration to enable real-time beam steering and high-throughput communications.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop reliable systems for IoT fleet management, create user interfaces, and support data engineering tasks.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and implement Python-based systems, lead feature design and delivery, ensure scalability and reliability, and mentor junior engineers.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and build scalable systems, lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and improve existing platforms using PHP, Node.JS, and AWS.

Provides cross-team technical leadership by architecting scalable systems, leading design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, shipping production code, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and translating business priorities into technical roadmaps. The role requires hands-on full-stack software development, AI-paired delivery, strong communication, and influence without formal authority.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and implement scalable data systems, collaborate with teams, mentor engineers, and ensure data integrity.

Build and maintain full-stack software products across frontend, backend, data, and AI layers. Own product architecture, deployment, observability, reliability, and maintenance; establish unified data models, secure access controls, AI guardrails, and engineering standards. Collaborate directly with non-engineering users to create self-service workflows and translate ambiguous needs into practical solutions. Ship production LLM-powered systems and support governed data transformation, quality, lineage, and testing.

Lead the technical vision and development of Elasticsearch’s core search infrastructure, including indexing, retrieval, query execution, and relevance. Research advances in search systems and algorithms, guide long-term technical roadmaps, collaborate across teams, mentor expert engineers, and contribute hands-on to high-performance distributed software. Serve as a subject-matter authority while driving projects from concept through completion.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain accounting software for transaction categorization, revenue recognition, and accurate financial reporting. Own projects end to end, create technical designs and rollout plans, conduct code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, investigate production issues, improve reliability, and mentor teammates. The role involves working with typed Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vue.js, Terraform, AWS, and PostgreSQL in a remote environment.

Lead ambiguous, multi-team software projects for core accounting systems. Set technical direction, make architectural decisions, build and deploy reliable software, review technical specifications, investigate production issues, and improve system reliability. Collaborate with product and cross-functional stakeholders, mentor and sponsor engineers, and maintain high standards for clean, tested code. The role focuses on typed Python backend services, financial systems, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.