Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead and scale GridUnity's quality engineering strategy: harden agent-driven test pipelines, enforce evidence-backed release gates, retire manual tests, build agent-verdict calibration, embed automated testing in CI/CD, mentor teams, define quality metrics, and expand the system across product lines.

Design, build, automate, and support cloud infrastructure and CI/CD for production systems. Run and optimize EKS/Kubernetes at scale, implement IaC (Terraform), observability, security best practices, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Collaborate with engineering teams, participate in on-call incident response, and produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.

Lead architecture and system design as a staff engineer, manage critical microservices, and influence engineering practices in fintech/blockchain.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop and manage backend systems for digital payments, focusing on microservices, API design, and integration with banking systems.

The Senior Software Engineer, Payments will design and implement backend infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, focusing on payment processing and operations.

Join Dakota's core engineering team to design and implement back-end infrastructure for a blockchain-integrated banking platform, addressing high-visibility projects.

Design and develop scalable features for secure software. Advocate for quality standards and engage with customers. Work remotely with a focus on product improvement.

The Staff/Principal Software Engineer will work in a remote global team, addressing software engineering challenges while fostering collaboration and clear communication.

Design, build, and maintain Python-based systems that interface with custom hardware. Own hardware drivers across serial/USB/I2C/SPI/Modbus, implement maintainable state machines, write async event-driven code, build RESTful APIs, persist device telemetry in SQL, contribute computer vision work, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and operations while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.

Develop and maintain backend services for the Leap quantum-classical cloud platform. Deliver features across the SDLC, improve system performance and scalability, troubleshoot and resolve production issues, participate in code reviews and on-call rotation, mentor junior developers, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship reliable, high-quality software.

Lead design and development of software that interfaces with quantum processors, supporting calibration, hardware interfaces, testing, monitoring, and operational infrastructure. Drive architecture, optimize performance, mentor engineers, run technical investigations, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure QPU solver availability on the Leap cloud platform.

As a Principal Software Engineer at Fetch, you'll design scalable systems for user engagement, drive experimentation, lead technical strategy, and mentor teams to improve engineering productivity and system reliability.

The Sr./Principal Software Engineer will design and implement core capabilities for SingleStore's cloud platform, focusing on scalability and reliability, while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Principal IC responsible for reliability, observability, and modernization of a .NET-based Platform Services portfolio on Azure. Own architecture, resilience patterns, shared libraries, and migration of legacy .NET services. Implement observability, event-driven messaging, and AI-first engineering practices while mentoring engineers and partnering with architecture teams.

Design, build, and optimize scalable real-time and batch data pipeline infrastructure. Develop backend features focused on reliability and performance, write well-tested code, review technical designs, and contribute to infrastructure across mobile, desktop, and server systems.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services in C#/.NET powering payment routing, connector management, and platform configuration. Build secure, observable APIs and high-volume transaction processing systems, collaborate across Product/AI/Engineering, mentor junior engineers, drive architecture and standards, and own full lifecycle from requirements to deployment.

Build, operate, and scale core data services and APIs to process, store, and deliver large-scale patient health records with low latency and high availability. Provide technical leadership, contribute to architecture and design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and coach engineers.

The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer focuses on designing and supporting automation tools in AWS, ensuring security compliance, and advising development teams on best practices.

Lead delivery of high-complexity digital banking implementations: design and build Java Spring Boot microservices, REST APIs, cloud-native containerized deployments, data and DB migrations, event streaming, monitoring and performance optimization. Act as a customer-facing technical lead conducting code reviews, test strategies, and cross-functional coordination to resolve operational issues.

Join an early engineering hire at a growing SaaS platform for online communities. Scope and deliver new features, write modular TypeScript/React code, enable AI coding agents, monitor production, and troubleshoot issues while influencing product direction and improving platform scalability and developer experience.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead AI integration into software design, develop scalable systems, and mentor other engineers while improving best practices.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and build fullstack features using Go, React, and Ember, ensuring optimal customer experiences and system scalability while mentoring peers and driving projects.

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you'll design and build AI-powered applications, develop front-end interfaces, and scalable back-end services for enterprise users while collaborating with research and product teams.

Lead the quality engineering efforts for Replicant's AI platform by defining standards, improving testing strategies, and mentoring a QA team to ensure high-quality outputs across software systems.

The Senior Software Developer will design and develop web and mobile applications, collaborate with scientists, implement APIs, and mentor developers.