Top Software Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Own Headway’s cloud platform and infrastructure engineering strategy. Lead deployment isolation, container orchestration, AWS networking and compute, autoscaling, capacity planning, Terraform self-service infrastructure, cloud cost attribution, and Python runtime performance. Build reliable paved-road tooling that enables engineering teams to deploy safely and independently while improving scalability, observability, and operational resilience.

Build and maintain Go-based API endpoints, middleware, gateway services, and platform capabilities. Design API contracts using OpenAPI and gRPC, support authentication, rate limiting, reliability monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Write tested, maintainable code and collaborate with platform teams consuming the APIs. Work in Kubernetes and Docker-based environments while contributing to API consolidation, versioning, observability, and service mesh capabilities.

Build Doowii’s conversational analytics platform across frontend, backend, data interaction, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include creating data-query interfaces, developing APIs, integrating AI-driven features, optimizing query and storage performance, managing AWS and GCP systems, designing data models, and maintaining ingestion pipelines involving NiFi, Kafka, Iceberg, and BigQuery. The role also involves model evaluation, schema evolution, change data capture, high-throughput streaming, automation, and rapid startup iteration.

Own post-launch bugs, production issues, and enhancements for AI agents and related products. Investigate root causes across logs, code, conversation data, APIs, authentication, telephony, and integrations; implement and test fixes; support customers directly; guide frontline Support Engineers; and build internal tools that improve investigation and resolution speed.

Build and own mobile SDKs for identity and fraud prevention products, focusing on Android development, device-level signal collection, authentication, and emerging agentic identity use cases. Partner with product and engineering leaders on architecture and roadmap decisions, improve observability and production resilience, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives across Twilio and Stytch.

Lead end-to-end development of modern frontend initiatives using React and Electron. Design scalable architecture, improve performance and test coverage, resolve production issues, influence technical decisions, and collaborate with Product, Design, and Backend teams. The role includes mentoring engineers, maintaining code quality, supporting observability and incident response, and building secure, high-quality customer-facing payment and form workflows.

Own production bugs, escalations, and enhancements for AI agent products. Investigate issues across logs, code, conversation data, telephony, integrations, authentication, APIs, and LLM prompting; implement, test, and ship fixes. Support customers directly, coordinate testing, guide frontline support engineers, build internal investigation tools, and relay feedback to Product while meeting SLAs.

Own and develop a TypeScript monorepo spanning Next.js, Expo, and Cloudflare Worker applications. Build PostgreSQL and Prisma data models, webhook and background job systems, secure financial-data and authentication flows, and AI features using LLM tool-calling. Handle production ownership, on-call responsibilities, incident analysis, code review, and reliability improvements. Collaborate remotely with strong written and verbal English while maintaining security, performance, and data integrity.

Build Python backend services and data-intensive systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, reporting, and analytics. Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines; validate, reconcile, retry, replay, and recover inconsistent external data. Improve production reliability, observability, testing, and performance while collaborating with Engineering, Product, and Operations. The role offers growth toward independent ownership of services and technical decisions.

Build and scale high-throughput streaming infrastructure that ingests, forwards, and computes on billions of behavioral events in real time. Own projects end to end, solve customer scaling challenges, and influence the technical roadmap. The role focuses on distributed systems capable of processing millions of messages per second with very low latency, supporting real-time personalization and AI-driven marketing products.

Build enterprise control-plane products for managing Hightouch deployments at scale. Responsibilities include developing roles, permissions, and access control; creating change-management tools for evolving data models and warehouses; and helping customers understand and optimize warehouse performance and costs. The role requires backend and distributed-systems architecture, asynchronous workflows, scalability, reliability, product thinking, and engagement with product specifications.

Design, build, and optimize distributed systems powering large-scale data synchronization. Responsibilities include improving sync speed, developing real-time streaming capabilities, scaling high-volume and low-latency systems, troubleshooting customer scaling challenges, and supporting multi-region, multi-cloud infrastructure and data residency requirements. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, customer collaboration, system architecture, and reliability improvements.

Develop backend systems for Hightouch’s Customer Studio product, focusing on data warehouse performance, analytics and experimentation, real-time audience syncing, and generative AI workflows. Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable distributed systems while contributing to product specifications and customer-focused solutions. The role requires strong product sense and the ability to architect data-processing features end to end.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Build and maintain backend services, APIs, workers, shared libraries, and cloud-native runtime infrastructure for Alteryx Cloud orchestration and job execution. Develop asynchronous, event-driven, distributed systems with queues, persistence, retries, and failure recovery. Improve reliability through observability, testing, deployment tooling, and incident follow-up while collaborating across engineering and product teams.

Design and build Seeq’s internal platform, including infrastructure, services, multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters, system interfaces, and secure deployment capabilities. Improve scalability, reliability, software delivery, and infrastructure cost and performance. Lead migrations, integrate security practices, architect distributed systems, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers while remaining hands-on at Staff or Principal scope.

Design, develop, verify, and maintain embedded system software and kernel drivers for NVIDIA Tegra ARM-based SoCs. Responsibilities include pre-silicon modeling, silicon bring-up, core OS enablement, hardware and software collaboration, unit testing, documentation, and system-level debugging. The engineer will also influence hardware architecture through design specifications and support next-generation SoC platforms.

Design and implement high-performance, scalable storage systems and client libraries for AI workloads. Build data loading, checkpointing, caching, POSIX-style and object-store integrations, observability and telemetry, and validate performance with platform, SRE, and AI teams using modern engineering practices.

Develops, tests, deploys, and supports major software features and services. The role translates product requirements into maintainable technical solutions, makes design and performance trade-offs, performs root-cause analysis, conducts code reviews, improves development and deployment practices, and mentors newer engineers. The position requires collaboration across engineering and product teams and includes working with Java, SQL, XML, web technologies, JavaScript, and Oracle databases.

Build and ship Ori developer tools across CLI, Slack, desktop, and cloud surfaces. Develop multi-model agent runtimes with model switching, provider fallbacks, tool integrations, sandboxing, secrets management, session handling, and version-controlled agent state. Own the full product experience, including installation, authentication, reliability, observability, and evaluations. Collaborate with product, design, and platform teams while feeding platform requirements into OpenRouter APIs and SDKs.

Design, develop, test, and optimize system software for next-generation ARM-based SoCs across pre- and post-silicon phases. Analyze architectural bottlenecks, workload performance, and performance-per-watt tradeoffs; develop hardware/software policies and optimization strategies. Lead performance analysis, competitive benchmarking, architecture documentation, and adoption of improvements across NVIDIA software products and open-source SDKs.

Build and operate Numeral’s public API, MCP server, billing and ERP integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and platform services. Own projects from design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and contribute to architecture decisions. The role requires strong backend engineering, distributed systems knowledge, cloud and container experience, and a customer-focused approach to dependable financial automation.

Build and operate Numeral’s platform services, public API, MCP server, ERP and billing integrations, infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer interfaces. Own projects from technical design through production, improve observability and reliability, automate deployment workflows, and support scalable background jobs and APIs. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while applying distributed-systems principles and maintaining accurate, dependable financial-data workflows.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, developer tools, migrations, and lifecycle automation. Solve database scaling, performance, reliability, and availability problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend services. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and queries, lead technical projects, modernize platforms, participate in incident response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.