Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

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.

Build, operate, and harden Relativity's agentic infrastructure: agents, model routing, context pipelines, inter-agent communication, local LLM inference, multi-site networking, VMs/containers, storage/backups, observability, tooling, and secure deployments for engineers and customers.

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

Design and implement Kotlin backend services and end-to-end systems for Toast POS device management. Lead technical designs, estimations, performance optimization, cross-team collaboration, and software quality practices including modern testing and observability. Mentor peers and drive product roadmap alignment with product, hardware, and QA stakeholders.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead technical strategies, drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and develop consumer banking solutions using various technologies.

Lead the design and evolution of predictive maintenance platform, build and scale ML-powered features, and mentor other engineers.

Lead full‑stack development and architecture for Spark’s broker platform. Deliver customer‑facing features, partner with product/design, mentor engineers, resolve technical debt, and set engineering standards while using AI developer tools.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

Own architecture and delivery of core ledger and transaction processing systems. Design and build highly available, high-performance backend services, drive cross-team technical initiatives, establish platform standards, mentor engineers, and embed AI to improve operations and workflows.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native AI healthcare payment integrity platforms. Provide technical leadership, own production code and releases, design data/retrieval architectures, ensure observability, security, and compliance, and collaborate with ML, product, and architecture teams to deliver performant SaaS solutions.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and operate scalable backend services, collaborate across teams, and ensure high system availability.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

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.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for mobile app infrastructure, owning shared components (design system, networking, CI/CD, observability, releases, tooling). Collaborate cross-functionally, set code/design standards, ensure operational readiness and on-call processes, mentor engineers, and drive large, business-impacting projects and migrations across the JS↔native boundary.

Lead design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable Java-based microservices in a cloud-native, event-driven AWS environment. Own backend feature design, code quality, automated testing, and FedRAMP release processes. Mentor engineers, participate in on-call/TechOps, integrate AI tools into development, and drive architecture, observability, and cross-team initiatives.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

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.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.