Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and develop features for parallel and distributed SQL query engines, focusing on query federation, optimization, performance, and scalability. Collaborate with open source communities, lead cross-functional efforts, and mentor junior engineers to deliver cloud-native data platform solutions.

Design and develop software solutions enhancing user experience for Governance features, contribute to open-source software, communicate technical designs, and support team quality through reviews.

Join the MongoDB Server Query Optimization team to build a distributed open-source query optimizer, focusing on enhancing query performance and robustness. Responsibilities include innovation in flexible schema databases, mentoring team members, and contributing to the technical roadmap based on extensive experience in the database domain.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Drive the Continuous Integration team, ensuring build systems' reliability and scalability, and mentor CI engineers while improving developer productivity through automation and tooling.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead full-stack initiatives, improve system quality, drive technical direction, and mentor peers in a collaborative environment.

As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will assist in the software development cycle, integrate GNC algorithms, maintain command telemetry databases, and develop reusable driver libraries for flight hardware.

Lead and deliver software solutions, oversee full-stack architecture, mentor engineers, and drive cross-functional initiatives for spacecraft modeling and control platforms.

Lead technical vision and implement high-impact Ruby on Rails solutions for an internal demo platform. Improve reliability, observability, instrumentation, and integrations; partner with Product, Sales, and cross-functional teams; mentor engineers and drive architecture, testing, and engineering best practices.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives; build and maintain AI-driven systems; mentor and raise the technical bar across teams; collaborate cross-functionally; ensure data security and HIPAA-compliant practices; operate in an AWS + Kubernetes environment while introducing new technologies as system load grows.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Design, build, and maintain full-stack healthcare software: responsive frontends (React/Vue/Angular), Python/FastAPI backends, secure/scalable AWS deployments, databases, and TDD practices to support contactless IoT monitoring and clinical workflows.

Design, implement, test, and maintain safety-critical embedded flight software. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to build controllers, simulation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and test infrastructures. Mentor junior engineers and apply functional safety processes to support aircraft certification and deployment.

Lead technical direction and architecture for the Fable backend, own platform reliability (databases, CI/CD, queues, observability), run incident response and postmortems, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product/design/ML, and build platform capabilities enabling faster, safer delivery.

The Staff Software Engineer will design scalable software architectures for robotics, guide cross-functional integration, and establish engineering standards and practices for embedded systems.

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.

Lead design and implementation of metagame systems and tooling across client and backend microservices. Define architecture, build UI/data models in engine, establish content workflows, mitigate technical risk, and mentor engineers to accelerate iteration and delivery.

Lead design and build of scalable AWS cloud-based backend services and APIs powering web and mobile customer experiences. Own end-to-end feature delivery, improve grading and authentication workflows for scale and reliability, leverage AI tools to accelerate development, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across teams.

The Staff Software Engineer designs scalable software architectures for robotics systems, collaborates with cross-functional teams, and guides standards for modern C++ in embedded environments.

Lead technical efforts to build and maintain applications, mentor engineers, manage complex projects, and improve technology quality in healthcare.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

The Staff Flight Software Engineer will design and develop flight-critical software for spacecraft, ensuring integration and operational success. Responsibilities include full lifecycle software development, collaboration with various teams, and support for testing and mission simulations.