Top Staff Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Leads hands-on development, operation, and scaling of PlanetArt’s high-traffic LAMP ecommerce platforms and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include full-stack engineering, production incident response, performance optimization, cloud operations, database and distributed-systems reliability, architectural guidance, code reviews, release coordination with global teams, and technical mentorship. The role owns critical production challenges across application, database, infrastructure, networking, CDN, and deployment layers while driving engineering standards and system stability.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

Own and modernize Domino's Tempest scale-testing platform; build repeatable automated validation, sizing guidance, and cloud-scale test automation; partner with platform teams to enable multi-cloud scale testing and improve test reliability and reporting.

The Staff GNC Engineer will develop spacecraft GNC systems, design algorithms, and lead integration efforts while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating cross-functionally.

As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will assist in the software development cycle, integrate GNC algorithms, maintain command telemetry databases, and develop reusable driver libraries for flight hardware.

Provides cross-team technical leadership for complex backend initiatives, modular architecture, monolith modernization, API and platform standards, production operations, and AI-assisted engineering adoption. Designs shared patterns for services, data, eventing, security, testing, observability, deployment, and reliability. Partners with Product and Engineering leadership, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and drives technical strategy without formal authority.

Responsible for thermal, structural, dynamic, and durability analysis of turbomachinery products, guiding design decisions, troubleshooting system interactions, and collaborating with teams on engine and vehicle programs.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Leads mechanical design and integration of infrared telescope and sensor payloads for spacecraft. Responsibilities include athermalized optomechanical design, cooling solutions, structural and thermal analysis, optical alignment, metrology, vibration isolation, CAD documentation, supplier coordination, and design reviews. Establishes optomechanical standards and drives technical outcomes across payload programs from concept through qualification and production.

Own the architecture and technical strategy for Square’s go-to-market technology stack. Build and operate production AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations that improve sales productivity. Lead complex technical initiatives, establish AI reliability and security guardrails, define evaluation metrics, and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Partner with Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and remaining hands-on across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Leads technical direction and develops fullstack purchase experiences using Ruby on Rails and Vue.js. Designs resilient transactional flows, integrates billing and CRM systems, improves reliability and rollout safety, mentors engineers, reviews code, reduces technical debt, and participates in incident response. Partners with Product, Design, Billing, and Support to improve GitLab’s purchase, subscription, discount, and upgrade workflows.

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

Lead full-cycle design, analysis, manufacture, and test of Terran R flight mechanisms (stage separation, fairing, landing gear, actuators). Perform trade studies, define requirements, integrate subsystems with additive primary structures, and collaborate with vehicle, loads, avionics, and manufacturing teams to deliver hardware on time and budget.

The Staff Manufacturing Engineer will create process plans, improve manufacturing processes, advise on design methodologies, and analyze non-conforming hardware, contributing directly to the Terran R program.

Lead design, analysis, and validation of spacecraft electrical power subsystems (solar arrays, batteries, distribution, and protection). Own architecture trades, perform modeling/simulation, radiation and reliability analysis, lead PDR/CDR, develop test/EGSE/HIL campaigns, support environmental testing, produce design documentation, and mentor junior engineers to ensure mission-ready, high-reliability power systems.

The Mechanical Engineer will design and develop flight hardware for missile defense and hypersonic vehicles, leading mechanical integration, creating structural designs, and ensuring compliance with defense standards.

Lead engine system projects, manage interfaces and requirements, support engine analysis and testing in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.

The Staff Mechanical Design Engineer will design and develop tools and automation solutions for manufacturing, collaborating closely with various engineering teams.

Lead full design cycle for Terran R primary and secondary structures: concept, analysis, sizing, drawings, testing, and manufacturing support. Use CAD and FEA tools to reduce mass and parts, own designs from requirements through production, and drive test campaigns and manufacturability improvements.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Design and implement a distributed query optimization system for MongoDB. Research query systems, architect features, write and review production-quality C++ code, debug large codebases, coordinate cross-team integrations, and mentor engineers while shaping long-term roadmap and performance improvements.

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.

Own and architect a space-based storage platform spanning Linux kernel drivers, NVMe recovery, ZFS pool design, NFS serving, and automated fault recovery. Develop radiation-resilient storage systems, reliability models, fault-injection tests, and integration between drivers and filesystems. Prototype on commodity hardware, validate sustained high-throughput operation, and carry the architecture through platform integration and launch.