Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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.

Design and implement scalable, secure cloud-native microservices and data platforms. Collaborate with product and stakeholders, mentor junior engineers, build CI/CD pipelines, and translate business needs into developer-ready stories.

As a Unity Engineer, you'll implement features, ensure performance optimization, debug issues, and collaborate with the team to enhance gameplay for mobile titles.

Lead platform reliability: define SLOs/error budgets, own observability and deploy pipelines, harden integrations with dental systems, operate LLM-driven workflows safely, build incident practices, and raise engineering reliability across the company.

Lead implementation of software safety programs for underwater robotic/autonomous vehicles per MIL-STD-882. Produce safety plans and assessments, perform hazard analyses, track coverage metrics, catalog safety artifacts, review software independently, and present findings at reviews and customer meetings. Coordinate across programs and support demanding schedules with occasional travel.

The role involves building decision science libraries and tools for mineral exploration, collaborating with teams to improve decision-making processes.

Improve performance and scalability of web applications by identifying and resolving front-end and back-end bottlenecks. Optimize load times, API responses, and database queries; develop scalable features across the stack, monitor performance, conduct code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams.

Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities that power a Federated GraphQL API and event-driven systems. Build and optimize gRPC endpoints, GraphQL APIs, and SQL for scale; own observability (DataDog, Bugsnag), mentor engineers, drive integrations, improve performance and reliability, and support customer-facing product teams across the organization.

Own and advance a core Helius backend system supporting Solana infrastructure. Design and release high-performance products, optimize latency and throughput, make architectural decisions, improve observability and incident response, and mentor engineers. The role requires end-to-end ownership of production systems at scale, with close collaboration with founders and engineering leadership. Relevant systems include data streaming, historical APIs, account indexing, and access control infrastructure.

Own the technical direction of a core Helius backend system, including architecture, reliability, performance, roadmap, and production operations. Design scalable distributed systems, storage, streaming, or edge infrastructure; drive profiling and performance improvements; establish operational excellence; partner with founders on strategy; mentor engineers; and lead ambiguous cross-team initiatives.

Develop full-stack solutions using TypeScript and AWS cloud technologies. Responsibilities include building GraphQL APIs, business logic libraries, AWS Lambda functions with CDK, AWS Glue automation, and Angular/Ionic user interfaces. The engineer will also support CI/CD, Git repositories, linting, developer workflows, requirements management, and HIPAA-compliant software development. Collaboration with engineers, management, and business analysts is required.

Execute scheduled, ad hoc, and release-milestone software tests; review test cases; report defects in issue-tracking systems; communicate status in standups; and collaborate with software test managers and development teams. The role requires knowledge of QA methodologies, black-box, grey-box, and white-box testing, strong communication and organization, independent and team-based work, and participation in planning and professional meetings.

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to design and develop large-scale distributed systems, mentor junior engineers, and manage complex projects in a dynamic setting.

Lead Elasticsearch performance engineering from architecture through production. Develop performance models, optimize distributed systems, profile bottlenecks, build benchmarks, detect regressions, and improve scalability across stateful and serverless architectures. Design AI-assisted optimization and benchmarking tools, collaborate across teams, define performance strategies, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep Java, JVM, concurrency, distributed systems, and search or data-store performance expertise.

Develop and optimize Elasticsearch performance across distributed and serverless architectures. Responsibilities include implementing performance models, profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks, building benchmarks and regression detection, improving logging, metrics, vector search, and ES|QL performance, and creating AI-assisted optimization tools. The role also involves architectural and code-level optimization, technical analysis, peer reviews, and guidance for fellow engineers.

Leads the technical strategy, architecture, implementation, and delivery of a scalable ecommerce platform for vehicle discovery, configuration, checkout, payments, order management, fulfillment, and ownership experiences. Builds and tests distributed systems, drives code quality and technical decisions, partners with product and UX teams, simplifies complex problems, and mentors engineers while balancing customer impact, business needs, and long-term technology excellence.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of Signifyd's GCP/Kubernetes cloud platform. Architect scalable, secure infrastructure, embed AI-driven automation, own SLOs and incident response, improve developer experience via CI/CD/GitOps tooling, mentor engineers, manage cloud capacity/FinOps, and build observability and security into the platform.

Design, develop, and maintain Java-based backend services and APIs for KeeperApp. Own backend components, optimize MySQL schemas/queries, ensure performance and reliability, apply secure coding practices, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver features iteratively.

Remote Senior Software Engineer who evaluates Microsoft and complementary technologies, designs and implements custom software (C#, JavaScript, SQL), applies cloud and DevOps practices (Azure/AWS, CI/CD, containers), mentors and networks professionally, and continuously learns and advises clients.

Lead architecture and build backend services, data pipelines, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure. Own CI/CD, Kubernetes deployments, observability, security, and platform reliability. Ship production code, set technical direction, mentor engineers, and solve cross-functional manufacturing and operations problems end-to-end.

Seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and build cloud-deployed systems. Must have extensive programming and leadership experience in software engineering.