Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Design, build, and operate scalable, secure data platform infrastructure for ingesting, processing, cataloging, and accessing petabytes of data. Improve Spark/Databricks reliability and developer experience, build ingestion/replication systems, develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), and collaborate with cross-functional teams to support analytics, ML, and customer-facing data products.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you'll enhance systems for measuring and optimizing customer journeys, collaborating with teams for actionable insights and scalable billing capabilities.

Lead the design and implementation of core authentication infrastructure at Phantom, focusing on secure authentication systems, secrets management, and API integrations.

As a Software Engineer, you'll develop trading APIs and systems, enhance user experiences, and lead initiatives for blockchain support and new products.

The role involves building user experiences, APIs, and data handling processes in a TypeScript application using React and Remix, while balancing performance and quality.

As a Software Engineer at OnePay, you will develop and implement features, build scalable products, and work closely with teams to enhance customer experiences.

As an AWS Software Engineer II, you will develop microservices, support legacy systems, and guide junior engineers, while improving operational workflows in an Agile team.

Build and maintain user-facing features using React and TypeScript, collaborate with teams on growth experiments, and improve frontend architecture.

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.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and optimize scalable backend platforms and services while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develop and improve real-time drone tele-operations features, cloud-based products, and quickly prototype new front-end experiences while transitioning to a new tech stack.

Develop and deploy life-saving technologies as a fullstack engineer, focusing on web applications for public safety, collaborating with various engineering disciplines and leveraging customer feedback.

Design and implement high-performance system software for medical devices, collaborating with hardware engineers and ensuring adherence to clinical standards.

The Principal Desktop UI Software Engineer will design and develop user-friendly interfaces for medical devices, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior members.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build backend APIs for authentication and authorization, partner with leadership, and mentor other engineers while improving production quality.

This role involves building and maintaining production-grade web applications using React and Next.js and developing cross-platform mobile features with React Native, while mentoring others and influencing technical direction.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop AI-powered tools, manage complex databases, optimize application performance, and lead technical decisions.

As an OR Software Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain optimization software. Collaborate with teams to implement best practices and enhance machine learning infrastructure for logistics software.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Build and improve frontend experiences for login, signup, OAuth, account security, and multi-user/org support. Contribute to migrating main views to React Native, design high-performance React/TypeScript UIs, collaborate with backend engineers and product teams, and write well-tested, reliable code to maintain low-latency user surfaces at scale.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.

Lead and mentor an engineering team building GovIntel and GovChannel product capabilities. Own technical direction, design and deliver scalable SaaS features, APIs, integrations, and platform reliability. Partner with Product, QA, Cloud Ops, and stakeholders to prioritize work, drive CI/CD and observability practices, lead reviews and incident response, and apply AI-assisted tools to improve development speed and quality.