Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

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.

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.

Leads software engineering teams within an Agile Integrated Product Team, managing technical commitments and full SDLC delivery. Develops, integrates, tests, and documents embedded, object-oriented software using languages such as C, C++, Java, and Python. The role involves software architecture, real-time and mission-critical systems, Agile leadership, and collaboration across employee and management levels. This is a full-time onsite position in San Diego or El Segundo, with travel up to 25% and an active Top Secret clearance required.

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 architecture and build full-stack web applications (Rails, Sinatra/Padrino, Django). Own infrastructure, data modeling, API design, and performance; write robust tests; mentor engineers; integrate AI/ML features; and collaborate with stakeholders to shape product and scale the platform.

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.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Samsara, you will lead and develop a high performing team, champion company culture, and contribute to the development of IoT platform solutions.

Leads the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and support of scalable software systems. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, code reviews, API-first development, performance optimization, testing, cloud-native deployments, Kubernetes operations, production monitoring, incident response, and technical mentoring. The role collaborates cross-functionally, establishes development standards, supports legacy modernization, and leads adoption of AI-driven engineering practices.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for shaping technical strategy and architecting automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image builds. The role involves developing production Go, AI- and LLM-powered developer tooling, quality frameworks, CLIs, and scalable services. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing roadmaps, improving reliability, and collaborating across distributed teams. Candidates need strong systems architecture, Linux, build systems, container ecosystem, and developer tooling experience, with familiarity in software supply chain security preferred.

Own the architecture and development of critical backend and cloud platform domains. Design scalable, secure, multi-tenant distributed systems on AWS, including event-driven services, APIs, data models, and AI/ML infrastructure. Lead major initiatives from design through release, align cross-functional stakeholders, establish engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, security, and cost-efficiency improvements.

Develop and lead implementation of mathematical optimization models for supply chain applications. Investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, translate real-world problems into software, and design comprehensive testing strategies. Build robust C++ software, automated functional, regression, and performance tests, and collaborate with agile teams. Apply AI and other tools to accelerate development while maintaining architectural consistency, security, and code quality. Review AI-generated code for correctness, integration risks, and edge cases.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading architecture and code reviews, resolving delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product managers on roadmap planning and prioritization. The role requires expertise in backend development, cloud platforms, microservices, databases, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, and operational excellence.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Leads architecture and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with product managers and stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and technical strategy experience.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing and developing complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include coding, system design, code and design reviews, roadmap delivery, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy, quality, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires extensive software engineering experience, multi-team leadership, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency with modern programming languages, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, APIs, messaging, and DevSecOps.

Design, develop, and maintain complex test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and performance tests. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, establish coding standards, analyze test results, and drive automation strategies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, troubleshoot framework issues, and mentor junior testing engineers. The role also supports cloud, containerization, DevSecOps, API, UI, and performance testing initiatives.

Design and develop core infrastructure, APIs, libraries, interfaces, plugins, and artist-facing tools for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Partner with artists, technical directors, leadership, and cross-disciplinary engineers to solve production challenges, integrate digital content creation applications, and support shot and asset workflows. Lead architectural initiatives, guide technical teams, drive adoption strategies, and mentor engineers while delivering scalable solutions across the software stack.

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.