Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Lead the technical direction, design, development, and operation of Airbnb’s large-scale Observability platform. Build distributed systems for metrics, logs, traces, querying, anomaly detection, and telemetry cost management. Scale high-throughput pipelines, improve reliability and performance, guide build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help teams self-serve production debugging while collaborating across infrastructure and product teams.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.

Lead the architecture and operation of StubHub’s streaming, messaging, and nonrelational storage platforms. Drive migration from Azure to an AWS-native Kafka-compatible platform, oversee high-throughput infrastructure, and ensure reliability, observability, compliance, and operational readiness. Partner with approximately 100 service teams on adoption, guide vendor and architecture decisions, shape the long-term roadmap, and mentor 3–5 engineers.

Architect, build, and optimize a full-stack platform using React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, and SQL databases. Lead technical decisions, performance optimization, observability, testing strategies, and cloud-based deployments. Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, evaluate technologies, and drive initiatives across multiple teams while collaborating with product, QA, customers, and leadership.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Lead technical strategy and execution for build, test, release, and deployment systems. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, deployment safety, and platform reliability. Coordinate cross-team projects and migrations, contribute high-impact code, coach engineers, and lead incident response and resilience improvements for shared engineering systems.

Lead platform and infrastructure architecture for scalable AI workloads. Design resilient distributed systems, foundational platform services, and cloud environments; solve complex infrastructure challenges; mentor junior engineers; and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to improve reliability, performance, developer experience, and operational efficiency.

Design, implement, and optimize robotics and machine-control software for industrial additive manufacturing and automated production. Build real-time, reliable control systems integrating robots, sensors, vision, PLCs, and factory equipment. Lead architecture, troubleshoot integrations, improve throughput and uptime, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy production-ready automation solutions.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Build and scale Neuroscale’s backend platform for AI-powered recruiting workflows. Responsibilities include developing Python/FastAPI REST APIs, designing high-throughput systems, managing PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Celery, and Temporal infrastructure, deploying services on AWS, maintaining containerized CI/CD pipelines, and supporting integrations, data pipelines, and asynchronous workflows. The role owns architecture and reliability decisions, mentors engineers, and collaborates with AI, product, and frontend teams in a high-ownership startup environment.

Lead iOS engineering for the Subscription Growth team, building and improving premium subscription experiences, paywalls, upsell experiments, and promotional offers. Develop high-quality, testable solutions, refactor architecture, support automated app builds and releases, and collaborate across iOS, Android, web, backend, and infrastructure teams. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on design, security, testing, deployment, and rapid experimentation.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Build and architect AI-powered software features that analyze contracts and fund documents, extract structured data, and automate legal workflows. Set technical direction, drive ambiguous initiatives from conception through production, improve engineering quality and tooling, and collaborate with product and design. Evaluate LLM systems, assess failure modes, and make strategic decisions about AI applications while mentoring and elevating other engineers.

Leads architecture, development, deployment, and operation of scalable Java and Kotlin applications. Responsibilities include backend-focused full-stack development, Kafka data streaming, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, performance optimization, incident response, technical leadership, mentoring, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also drives AI-assisted engineering practices and modernization initiatives while supporting on-call operations.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and support of scalable, fault-tolerant software applications. Responsibilities include architecture, coding, debugging, performance optimization, cloud-native and microservices development, Kubernetes operations, production monitoring, incident response, code reviews, technical planning, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration. The role also contributes to product roadmaps, engineering standards, automation, and on-call support.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include translating product requirements into scalable designs, writing and reviewing code, leading sprint teams, removing delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and guiding technical strategy. The role emphasizes microservices, cloud platforms, containerization, APIs, messaging, workflow orchestration, DevSecOps, observability, performance, security, and operational excellence.

Own and evolve cybersecurity platform integrations, parser frameworks, data normalization, and microservice-based solutions. Design secure APIs, process security logs from diverse sources, and ensure ingested data supports detection and analytics. Drive architecture decisions, improve framework reliability, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to accelerate development, testing, parsing, automation, and operational workflows.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Lead the Kyber prototyping and rapid deployment platform, setting technical direction, rebuilding it on next-generation cloud infrastructure, and scaling it for thousands of internal users. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, architecture, product integration, cross-functional collaboration, improving tools for non-technical builders, and mentoring engineers.

Own the architecture and long-term direction of Alpaca’s Redpanda-based event streaming platform. Lead migration to event-driven systems, design scalable real-time client streaming, establish schema and library standards, shape authentication for streaming, partner on resilience and testing, mentor engineers, influence cross-team technical decisions, and participate in platform on-call. The role primarily uses Go and involves Kubernetes, Helm, PostgreSQL, observability, and distributed systems.

Lead the architecture and implementation of high-performance, reliable core services operating at massive scale. Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs, database schemas, and distributed systems; conduct benchmarking, profiling, monitoring, and optimization; participate in reviews and on-call rotations; resolve production issues; and drive independent experiments and solutions.

Lead the development of an AI-powered platform for senior mental health, building systems for patient experience, and mentoring the engineering team.