Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead the development of Runware's serverless platform by building core systems for AI workload management and providing technical guidance to the team.

Provides technical leadership for brokerage and RIA technology platforms, defining architecture, standards, roadmaps, and reusable AWS serverless data-integration capabilities. Leads complex cross-team initiatives, architecture reviews, technical risk resolution, and solution delivery while remaining hands-on. Partners with business, product, cybersecurity, and engineering leaders, mentors senior engineers, evaluates emerging technologies, and promotes scalable, secure, observable, and reliable engineering practices.

Build and maintain scalable, cloud-native APIs and core marketplace systems. Lead software architecture and testing discussions, collaborate across teams, and improve application reliability, performance, telemetry, and operational health. The role uses .NET Core and related technology stacks, front-end JavaScript frameworks, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, OpenTelemetry, and AI development tools.

Design and build MoonPay’s unified identity and KYC platform across products, partners, and regulated jurisdictions. Responsibilities include defining architecture and technical strategy, modeling identity lifecycles, building secure APIs and SDKs, integrating verification providers, protecting sensitive data, and establishing consent, authorization, auditability, observability, versioning, and failure-handling practices. The role requires hands-on engineering, cross-functional influence, and leadership through ambiguity.

Leads engineering for one or more product-domain teams, partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Insurance stakeholders. Responsibilities include setting technical strategy and roadmaps, coaching engineers, driving cross-team initiatives, contributing code, leading incident response and resiliency improvements, and establishing engineering standards. Requires strong Ruby on Rails expertise, Rust familiarity, software leadership experience, and excellent communication skills.

Develop and operate Airbnb’s large-scale cloud infrastructure platform, including Kubernetes, developer APIs and CLIs, autoscaling, capacity management, and cloud automation. Build secure, reliable, scalable, and highly available distributed systems using public cloud technologies. Optimize existing infrastructure, improve performance and operational efficiency, troubleshoot production systems, and collaborate across engineering teams and open-source communities.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, documents, and debugs software for end-user customers. Supports embedded and real-time system architecture and lifecycle management, collaborates with systems, hardware, and integration teams in an Agile environment, troubleshoots system and data-acquisition issues, and works in a rapid-development lab setting. The role requires advanced C/C++, VxWorks, GPU/CUDA, and software development experience, along with an active Secret clearance.

Leads technical direction for Everand’s backend platform, including architecture, reliability, observability, CI/CD, databases, queues, and scalable distributed systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, web, mobile, and ML teams to deliver personalized reading and listening experiences. Mentors engineers, drives architecture reviews and modernization efforts, improves technical quality, and owns platform health, performance, cost, and resilience.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, debugs, and documents software for embedded and real-time systems. Collaborates with systems, digital, hardware, and integration teams in an Agile lab environment. Troubleshoots system capabilities, data acquisition, programming methods, control strategies, and output requirements. The role requires strong C/C++ skills, VxWorks expertise, GPU/CUDA experience, an active Secret clearance, and substantial software development experience.

Lead the architecture and delivery of TeamSnap’s Android advertising platform, including native, display, and video ad experiences. Build privacy-conscious consent and measurement capabilities, optimize performance, shape Kotlin and Jetpack Compose architecture, and lead cross-team technical initiatives. Partner with advertising, product, design, legal, and data teams while mentoring engineers and establishing Android standards.

Build and lead data catalog infrastructure supporting data discovery, metadata management, governance, quality, lineage, privacy, access control, and retention. Develop scalable metadata integrations, onboarding tools, data policies, and end-to-end lineage products across online, offline, machine learning, metrics, visualization, and third-party datasets. Collaborate with cross-functional infrastructure teams to ensure Airbnb data assets are cataloged, discoverable, governed, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Lead the architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of scalable customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Make technical decisions, drive design and code reviews, integrate third-party SaaS platforms, improve system quality and performance, collaborate with product and UX teams, mentor engineers, and shape company-wide technical objectives.

Leads architecture, implementation, testing, and delivery of major customer-facing software systems spanning multiple teams. Makes complex technical decisions, drives code and design reviews, ensures quality and integration, collaborates with product and UX, mentors engineers, and shapes company-wide technical direction. Builds scalable distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and third-party integrations while simplifying ambiguous problems and delivering reliable customer experiences.

Lead the architecture, development, operation, and evolution of PlayStation’s real-time analytics platform. Build scalable distributed data systems using streaming and OLAP technologies, integrate batch and streaming workloads, improve reliability and performance, and develop AI-powered engineering capabilities. The role provides technical leadership across teams, mentors engineers, drives architecture and standards, resolves production incidents, and participates in on-call support.

Lead architectural vision and delivery for complex, scalable SaaS systems. Design cloud-native distributed systems using Docker and Kubernetes, develop foundational abstractions, reduce technical debt, and drive engineering best practices. Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership, mentor senior engineers, and contribute to hiring. Apply deep C# and .NET expertise, performance analysis, debugging, and AI-assisted development, including production LLM integrations.

Leads technical direction for large-scale accessibility systems that detect, remediate, and prevent web accessibility issues. Designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable distributed systems; drives technical roadmaps; mentors engineers; partners with Product and Design; and promotes responsible AI-assisted development. The role requires hands-on software engineering across JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, databases, storage, real-time data, and AI-enabled tooling.

Design and scale Cohere’s Model Vault backend and inference platform. Lead architecture for authentication, deployments, billing, metering, customer lifecycle, and cloud control-plane services. Build reliable distributed systems with strong guarantees for security, privacy, consistency, isolation, observability, and failure recovery. Drive technically complex initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, production rollout, operations, and iteration at enterprise scale.

Develop and test flight software for spacecraft, including onboard computers, GNC algorithm integration, command and telemetry systems, spacecraft sequencing, subsystem simulators, device drivers, and communications libraries. Collaborate with ground software teams across spacecraft design, manufacturing, integration, and flight operations. The role requires low-level firmware, embedded RTOS, safety-critical systems, C/C++, Python, and eligibility for TS/SCI clearance.

Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs. Develop integrations, shared data APIs, metrics storage, ETL pipelines, and AI-enabled product features. Diagnose reliability and performance issues, improve developer experience, and advance engineering practices. Collaborate with engineers, clients, and non-technical stakeholders while working effectively in a fast-changing startup environment.

Own and design high-impact components of Chainguard's container image platform. Build and improve image build systems, tooling, and services at scale. Drive technical direction, participate in roadmap planning, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers to raise engineering quality.

Leads technical direction and cross-team delivery of scalable software capabilities for a digital banking platform. Designs secure APIs, microservices, integrations, data contracts, and reliable full-stack systems. Partners across product, design, security, architecture, data, and engineering; mentors engineers; leads incident response; improves testing, CI/CD, developer tooling, and operational readiness. The role requires hands-on coding, architecture leadership, dependency management, and influence without direct people management.

Lead software engineering for the Patient Onboarding team, building and improving registration, insurance verification, and care-access workflows. Write full-stack production code, lead complex cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction, improve engineering foundations, and support modern AI-enabled development practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering to improve patient conversion and system reliability.

Owns end-to-end development of customer platform features, including Go backend systems, REST/gRPC APIs, entitlements, policies, and onboarding services. Collaborates across engineering teams, extends AI-powered customer experiences, provides technical leadership and mentorship, and drives product-focused delivery in ambiguous environments.

Develop and deploy onboard swarm autonomy: perception, planning, control, multi-target tracking, inter-robot/C2 protocols, on-vehicle software integration, realistic UxS simulation, train and test ML-based target recognition, and electronics prototyping. Travel for test events up to 25%.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.