Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and implement scalable microservices and customer/internal APIs. Lead technical specification, development, integration, testing, and release. Optimize performance, refactor code, collaborate with stakeholders, mentor engineers, and ensure reliable, maintainable solutions across the platform.

Design, build, and maintain People systems automations and integrations (Workato, Workday, Greenhouse, Slack) using production-quality code. Improve CI/CD, reliability, observability, and AI-driven automation (Claude, MCP). Serve as technical lead for People Technology, partner with stakeholders, and drive scalable, maintainable automation solutions.

Lead the developer experience roadmap and own multi-language SDKs and the code-generation pipeline. Design CI, release automation, observability, and tooling (CLI, starter repos). Improve cross-language parity, docs, and developer onboarding; remove systemic friction and represent DX to Product, Engineering, and Partnerships.

The Staff Engineer, Quality Platform will establish quality metrics, standards, and tooling while partnering with engineering teams to embed quality processes and foster a quality-driven culture across the organization.

Design, build, and operate AI-powered testing tools, agent harnesses, Temporal-based workflows, and telemetry/evaluation systems to improve CI/CD reliability and developer productivity across Snapchat's mobile and multi-cloud backend services. Lead cross-team initiatives, ensure availability and scalability, and mentor engineers.

As a Staff Optical Communications Engineer, you will design and deliver optical communications systems for deep space missions, leading prototyping and implementation efforts.

As a Staff Structures Engineer, you'll lead spacecraft structures design from concept to flight, ensuring performance and reliability while collaborating across teams.

The Staff Propulsion Test Responsible Engineer will lead test plans, execute campaigns, troubleshoot issues, and review data while supporting engine development and certification across teams.

The Staff Flight Software Engineer will design and develop flight-critical software for spacecraft, ensuring integration and operational success. Responsibilities include full lifecycle software development, collaboration with various teams, and support for testing and mission simulations.

Lead technical direction, design, build, and operate Snap's large-scale service and compute infrastructure. Drive platform roadmaps, reliability, observability, CI/CD, and developer experience. Act as hands-on staff tech lead across cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and shape infrastructure for an AI-first future.

Lead architecture, analysis, design, testing, and validation of vehicle fluid subsystems for Terran R. Own schematics, component selection/sizing, conduct fluid/thermal analyses, support manufacturing and integrated vehicle testing, and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure system performance.

Lead technical authority for spacecraft EMI/EMC: set system- and unit-level EMC requirements, define grounding/bonding/shielding/filtering architectures, drive MIL-STD-461 and GSFC-7000 qualification, perform pre-compliance analysis, diagnose EMI issues, develop test capability and procedures, and establish EMI/EMC standards and mentorship across programs through production and launch.

Develop and implement RF desense solutions for Spectacles, ensuring system performance through testing and collaboration with various engineering teams.

Design, implement, and operate highly-available, large-scale backend services (identity, friend graph, persistence). Lead architecture and delivery of distributed systems, collaborate across teams, ensure operational excellence, use AI tools responsibly, and participate in incident response and on-call ownership.

The Senior Staff Engineer will lead the Application Modernization Platform team, architecting solutions using Generative AI and managing complex systems while providing mentorship and driving engineering strategy.

Own and evolve Babylist's AWS infrastructure and developer platform using Terraform and Kubernetes. Improve CI/CD reliability, support engineers across environments, define monitoring and alerting standards, lead incident response and postmortems, and shape platform architecture to scale for millions of users.

As a Staff Materials & Processes Engineer, you will research and select composite materials, develop testing plans, and collaborate across teams to ensure material performance and compliance for the Terran R rocket.

The role involves leading supplier quality initiatives, resolving manufacturing issues, conducting DFM reviews, managing supplier evaluations, and ensuring compliance with quality standards in the aerospace manufacturing sector.

Own and build backend software connecting robotics, ML inference, data platform, and digital twin. Develop APIs, user-facing apps, CRUD services, and visualization. Deploy and maintain software on edge and cloud, integrate with ROS, and collaborate with robotics, data, ML, and infrastructure teams to improve observability and developer tooling.

Develop innovative spacecraft thermal designs, perform thermal analysis, coordinate with interdisciplinary teams, and support testing and operations.

Design, implement, and operate highly available backend services for Snap's growth notification platform across multiple channels. Own end-to-end architecture, lead multi-quarter technical roadmaps, drive large cross-functional projects, and ensure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and incident response. Integrate upstream signals and downstream use cases, apply distributed-systems best practices, and mentor engineers to improve team effectiveness.

Lead platform architecture and roadmap to build an AI-enabled Internal Developer Platform. Drive platform-as-product, Kubernetes-based IaC (Terraform), CI/CD standards, automation, and developer self-service. Mentor engineers, provide Tier 2 troubleshooting, define governance, and participate in 24/7 on-call to ensure high availability and operational resilience.

Lead a team of electrical engineers to develop next-generation AR products, manage projects, debug hardware issues, and collaborate cross-functionally.

As a Staff Electrical Engineer, you will lead avionics architecture and design, integrating hardware and software systems for space missions, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead the design of distributed systems, drive large initiatives, and enhance technical architecture at Whatnot, fostering rapid growth and stability.