Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Build and operate scalable Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure, develop Terraform infrastructure-as-code, maintain internal developer platform and tooling, support automation, security, and performance, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and incident escalation.

Design, build, test, and maintain scalable software systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, participate in code reviews, write tests and documentation, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to product and architecture decisions.

The role involves designing, building, and optimizing a data platform, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data quality and security.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, build and own the onboarding experience for Twilio's Stytch identity product, creating secure integration solutions for developers and enhancing customer authentication.

Design, build, test, and document client-side networking software for Tailscale's dataplane. Improve connectivity between clients, subnet routers, and exit nodes, optimize performance and reliability, resolve complex customer network escalations, collaborate with product and engineering, and engage with the open-source community.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support web and software solutions; estimate and document work; troubleshoot and monitor systems; implement CI/CD and DevOps practices; collaborate with stakeholders; specialize in web UI/UX, CMS platforms, modern frameworks, APIs, and scalable architectures.

Design, develop, test, and maintain customer and employee applications. Provide production support, review and optimize SQL, write Web APIs with token-based auth, perform impact analysis, collaborate on architecture and improvements, and follow release and testing processes.

Build and own user-facing features and core platform architecture across frontend, backend, and ML pipelines. Integrate AI workflows (LLMs, embeddings) for curriculum generation and automated evaluation. Manage end-to-end development: requirements, design, implementation, CI/CD, testing, observability, and iteration while collaborating with product, design, ML, and customer teams.

Work directly with the founder to design and build core product features: integrations that pull license data, automation to file renewals/applications, data cleaning with AI, dashboard and alerting UX, and establish engineering practices for testing, deployments, and security. Term contractor role with potential conversion to full-time based on performance.

Develop and customize applications on the Infor CloudSuite Industrial (SyteLine) platform, integrate third-party systems, and build full-stack web applications. Troubleshoot Infor environments, implement front-end interfaces and backend logic, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to deliver high-quality payment-processing solutions.

Design, develop, test, and support high-volume healthcare software in an Agile environment. Collaborate on architecture, code reviews, automated testing, production monitoring, and apply AI-assisted tools while ensuring security, observability, and data privacy.

Design and build platforms for new products, develop generative AI features, ensure system reliability, and foster a collaborative culture in a startup environment.

Design, build, and scale distributed backend platforms and APIs. Lead technical design, own production systems, improve CI/CD, observability, and reliability. Mentor engineers, drive engineering best practices, and leverage AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and quality.

Build, operate, and scale cloud-native backend services and APIs for a high-volume vehicle marketplace. Embed AI-driven capabilities into features, use AI tools to accelerate development, participate in on-call rotations, improve reliability, and collaborate with Product, Data, Infrastructure, and SRE teams to deliver production-ready systems.

Join Mozilla Release Engineering to build and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that run tens of thousands of build/test/release tasks daily. Improve developer experience, optimize deployment pipelines, collaborate with distributed engineers, participate in code reviews, and respond to critical service outages during normal working hours. Work across Windows, macOS, and Linux and leverage cloud resources.

Lead design and delivery of Vanta's Integrations Platform: build scalable, secure backend services and developer tooling, own authentication and data-ingestion primitives, evolve APIs and SDKs, drive performance and operational excellence, mentor engineers, and enable fast integration development (including low-code and AI-accelerated flows).

Design, build, and own full-stack features and platform primitives for Vanta's Integrations Platform. Develop authentication, data-ingestion, and schema-evolution services; build secure, scalable services and UIs with TypeScript, React, and Node.js; improve performance and operational excellence; use AI tools to accelerate development; collaborate across teams to enable a large ecosystem of integrations.

Develop, test, and maintain platform features and services for a digital health platform. Collaborate with product and design teams, write clean code, participate in reviews, debug issues, assist with API development and integrations, and help improve performance, reliability, and scalability while learning modern tools and cloud technologies.

Lead design and implementation of Doowiis frontend, backend, and data systems. Define architecture, build scalable ingestion and analytics pipelines, optimize storage and query performance, ship AI-driven features (LLM/text-to-SQL, embeddings), improve observability and deployment, and mentor engineers while partnering with product and ML teams.

The Software Engineer, Platform role involves designing and maintaining backend APIs for various services at Speechify, focusing on performance and scalability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The Software Engineer will support data collection for model training, manage the cloud infrastructure, and collaborate on data pipelines to enhance Speechify's AI capabilities.

Senior .NET Software Engineer responsible for end-to-end software development using Microsoft technologies. Requires extensive experience in SDLC, design principles, technical documentation, web application development with .NET, Agile/SCRUM, Entity Framework, database design, and version control. Familiarity with project tools JIRA, TEMPO, Bitbucket, and Confluence preferred.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing and implementing new features, scaling and optimizing the platform, improving Postgres and Elasticsearch performance, fine-tuning LLMs, and making architectural decisions. Collaborate with engineering team, take ownership of features, write performant, maintainable code, and help shape product and infrastructure for data-intensive applications (NLP, search, indexing).

Design and implement front-end features, build high-quality user interfaces, take ownership of product and architecture decisions, collaborate with engineering team, and deliver performant, user-focused solutions.

Provide technical leadership for cross-functional teams, create and communicate technical vision and strategy, lead new initiatives without defined procedures, remove roadblocks, resolve issues, mentor engineers, and perform related duties. Remote role based in Canada; GM does not provide immigration sponsorship.