Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

Develop and maintain scalable creative tools and Digital Asset Management services for game development teams. Lead technical vision, architecture, and implementation across backend services, data platforms, deployment, monitoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Collaborate with artists, designers, producers, infrastructure engineers, QA, and game developers to solve complex problems, improve development workflows, and deliver robust tooling. Provide technical guidance, documentation, training, and cross-functional influence while supporting large codebases and shipped products.

Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of Digital Asset Management and creative tooling for game development teams. Build scalable software, support AI-assisted engineering tools and AI/ML workloads, guide multi-year technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with artists, designers, infrastructure, QA, and game developers. Provide technical leadership, documentation, training, and cross-functional guidance while delivering tools for large codebases and shipped products.

Develop and maintain software applications across the full SDLC, using modern development practices to integrate, test, and deploy capabilities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose and resolve software and system issues. The role involves embedded, real-time, mission-critical software development, software architecture documentation, testing, and integration in an on-site aerospace environment. A Top Secret clearance and SAP access are required.

Build and operate highly reliable card-issuing software and tooling across authorization, clearing, settlement, certification, and network integrations. Serve as a technical expert on card-network specifications, protocols, mandates, and production behavior. Lead complex cross-team engineering work, debug protocol-level issues, influence network requirements, mentor engineers, improve platform reliability, and participate in on-call support for critical financial systems.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for building and operating Block’s card issuing platform at the network boundary. The role requires deep expertise in card networks, ISO 8583, authorization and clearing flows, certifications, mandates, and direct network connectivity. Responsibilities include writing production code, developing conformance tooling, debugging protocols, leading cross-team technical initiatives, influencing network requirements, mentoring engineers, supporting AI-assisted development, and participating in on-call operations for critical financial systems.

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.

Build and evolve large-scale infrastructure, tooling, and automation for Riot’s engineering teams. Design systems that reduce toil, improve deployment workflows, and leverage AI capabilities such as bots, agents, and MCP servers. Partner with stakeholders and senior leadership, improve engineering standards, mentor teammates, and promote reliable, high-quality software across distributed systems, cloud platforms, containers, and Kubernetes.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

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 console development for an unpublished game. Collaborate across teams, solve technical problems, optimize performance, and mentor new engineers.

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.

Develop and maintain C++ systems for Teamfight Tactics on iOS and Android using Unreal Engine. Diagnose cross-platform, engine, and native mobile issues; optimize performance, memory, stability, and reliability; and influence architecture, engineering practices, tooling, testing, and release processes. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call support.

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.

Staff Software Engineer leading hands-on full-stack development across C#/.NET services, Angular interfaces, databases, and AWS-hosted applications. Builds healthcare data integrations using HL7, FHIR, and X12 EDI; modernizes legacy systems; improves performance; applies secure coding and HIPAA practices; supports production incidents; reviews code; mentors engineers; and collaborates with product and QA teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for a company-wide data lakehouse platform. Build platform-as-product components (SDKs, CLIs, control planes), optimize distributed compute/storage, prototype performance R&D, ensure compliance-by-design (lineage, PII masking, access control), enable real-time AI data ingestion, drive engineering standards, and mentor cross-functional teams.

Design, build, and scale backend services, APIs, and workflow systems supporting healthcare claims identification and recovery. Integrate AI/ML models, legal datasets, and transactional data while developing fault-tolerant Temporal workflows. Maintain AWS infrastructure and secure deployment pipelines using Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, and related technologies. Collaborate with product, business, and data science teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance systems in a regulated startup environment.

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.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for a large-scale Content Platform that powers marketing campaigns. Solve ambiguous cross-team problems, design scalable backend and AI-driven systems, mentor senior engineers, and partner with product, design, and marketing to drive execution and engineering standards across the org.

Build and modernize Carrum Health’s data platform by developing Python and SQL pipelines, AWS services, Terraform infrastructure, dbt transformations, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Automate carrier integrations, reduce operational toil, improve reliability, and support Databricks adoption. Extend AI-assisted ingestion and classification using Bedrock and collaborate across engineering, analytics, data science, and client-facing teams. The role includes production ownership, incident response, technical documentation, and healthcare data platform development.

Lead the architecture, deployment, and operation of AWS cloud infrastructure supporting regulated financial services. Own Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, networking, security, cost optimization, and AI/ML infrastructure strategies. Establish technical standards, lead cross-functional initiatives, handle critical incident escalations, mentor engineers, and advise leadership on infrastructure investments and reliability.

Staff-level platform engineer to improve and scale inherited Scala systems, redesign data layers for ML/AI, build a Rust service framework, enhance observability and resilience, shape developer tooling and standards, and work across JVM, Rust, Python, SQL, and Spark.

Architect and build a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on large-scale initiatives, emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, developer experience, and end-user usability.