Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead technical strategy and hands-on development for Snap’s storage, caching, identity, and service infrastructure. Design and operate highly available distributed systems across AWS and GCP, drive multi-quarter initiatives, improve reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and developer experience, and influence architecture across infrastructure and product teams. Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical challenges, and shape responsible AI applications for platform quality and engineering productivity.

Own and architect the frontend platform for a unified, safety-critical operator interface. Lead application shell, design system, shared data layer, frontend consolidation, performance optimization, real-time telemetry rendering, cross-team technical direction, and mentorship. Build data-intensive applications using advanced state management and streaming technologies.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and operation of Snap’s omnichannel notification platform. Design scalable, highly available backend services, shared APIs, data models, orchestration, ranking, targeting, experimentation, and measurement systems. Drive cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, respond to incidents, develop technical roadmaps, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Metropolis Recognition Platform, including edge-to-cloud pipelines, identity resolution, real-time decisioning, privacy and consent models, observability, and progressive delivery. Lead cross-functional alignment across engineering, computer vision, data, security, platform teams, and partners. Establish RFCs, SLOs, testing standards, operational practices, and architectural best practices while mentoring engineers and managing high-scale distributed systems.

Develop and deploy full-stack applications supporting purchasing, manufacturing planning, scheduling, test-data analysis, and factory operations. Lead the software development lifecycle, collaborate with non-software stakeholders to define requirements, apply agile and continuous delivery practices, solve complex problems, and mentor engineers. The role involves building scalable platforms across front-end, services, analytics, industrial automation, and AI capabilities.

Lead the technical direction of Elixir/OTP distributed systems for a spacecraft ground-control platform. Responsibilities include defining architecture and roadmaps, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving reliability and scalability, establishing testing and engineering standards, managing incidents, influencing product strategy, documenting systems, and mentoring engineers and emerging technical leaders.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

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 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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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 and delivery of complex web and mobile product initiatives. Build React and React Native applications, scalable components, APIs, data models, and shared libraries. Establish engineering standards, improve testing, performance, security, and reliability, and optimize database queries. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and partner with leadership and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap. This is a fully remote role supporting veterinary clinic operations and supply-chain workflows.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Own technical strategy and architectural decisions across multiple engineering squads. Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, data models, and cloud-native platforms while building shared systems that improve delivery. Partner with product and engineering leadership, resolve ambiguous technical challenges, establish AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers through design reviews and cross-team collaboration. The role requires full-stack expertise and strong influence, communication, and technical leadership in a high-stakes B2B SaaS environment.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs. Scale storage, queries, and computation for real-time products, consolidate fragmented geospatial solutions, develop customer self-service capabilities, and provide mentorship through code reviews and design leadership. Collaborate across teams and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.

Lead the technical direction of Zocdoc’s patient acquisition platform, building scalable APIs, microservices, AWS infrastructure, and React experiences. Improve SEO, page speed, system reliability, and patient-facing data access. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Marketing, integrate third-party data and Contentful, apply LLM technology, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, and drive AI-focused innovation across distributed teams.

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.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

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.