Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

Leads end-to-end development of scalable software systems, including architecture, coding, debugging, testing, deployment, monitoring, and incident response. Drives API-first development, performance optimization, cloud-native applications, and modernization of legacy systems. Leads code reviews, establishes engineering standards, mentors junior engineers, collaborates cross-functionally, supports production systems, and participates in on-call rotations.

Own and evolve patient-facing clinical application surfaces, including a React widget, clinician portal, and Python service layer. Lead full-stack architecture, AI application integrations, encounter data flows, internal tooling, versioned shared components, and operational reliability. Partner with AI engineers on LLM-enabled workflows, maintain dependencies, protect consumers from breaking changes, and mentor junior engineers. The role requires durable ownership of rapidly built systems and delivery of critical healthcare technology.

Lead the technical direction of Attentive’s compute and networking platform. Build reusable AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes systems, APIs, and self-service tools while improving reliability, scalability, cost efficiency, security, and developer productivity. Own complex cross-team initiatives from design through production, diagnose sophisticated infrastructure issues, improve CI/CD and observability, mentor engineers, and establish effective AI-assisted development practices.

Lead architecture and development of scalable software solutions for the Seller Platform. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, research emerging technologies, and solve complex technical challenges. The role requires strong Java and Ruby experience, distributed systems expertise, software architecture knowledge, and proficiency with modern AI coding tools.

Lead the development of foundational iOS platform systems, shared frameworks, developer tools, architecture standards, and multi-quarter migrations across Cash App and Square. Drive performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, release safety, and AI-assisted development practices. This hands-on individual contributor role influences multiple teams, develops technical leaders, and partners broadly to improve iOS engineering quality, productivity, and product outcomes.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Build and scale accounting software synchronization solutions connecting BILL’s payment network with third-party accounting platforms. Lead end-to-end software design and delivery, develop scalable AWS microservices, improve platform performance, guide testing and CI/CD practices, resolve customer problems, mentor engineers, and use generative AI to accelerate development.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Own the architecture and technical strategy for Square’s go-to-market technology stack. Build and operate production AI agents, automated workflows, and integrations that improve sales productivity. Lead complex technical initiatives, establish AI reliability and security guardrails, define evaluation metrics, and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Partner with Sales, Product, Data, and Engineering leaders while mentoring engineers and remaining hands-on across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.

Design and build complex customer-facing product features, own technical decisions, contribute to architecture and technical direction, uphold code quality, mentor engineers, and support production incidents. The role collaborates closely with Product and Design across a modern web stack including React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, relational databases, and Microsoft Azure.

Lead design and implementation of Pinterest Edge systems (CDN, TLS, DNS, proxies) to manage automation traffic and rate limiting at scale. Develop request-processing logic in Envoy, collaborate with vendors and platform teams, mentor engineers, use AI to accelerate workflows, and participate in on-call incident response and reliability improvements.

Lead hands-on software engineering and architecture across multiple teams, designing and delivering Angular and .NET applications, APIs, integrations, cloud solutions, and reusable engineering platforms. Modernize legacy systems, improve reliability and security, troubleshoot production issues, strengthen CI/CD and testing, and mentor engineers. Establish practical AI-assisted development practices and customer-facing AI capabilities with appropriate security, validation, traceability, and human oversight.

Provide technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, designing and implementing reliable data migration, CDC, APIs, and distributed systems. Lead major architectural initiatives, solve data consistency and performance challenges, improve observability and operational readiness, investigate incidents, mentor engineers, and partner with product, support, solutions, and customers. Remain hands-on while advancing testing, documentation, release practices, and AI-assisted migration capabilities.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, migration, reliability, scalability, performance, and security of cloud-native authentication services. Drive complex multi-quarter initiatives using Go and Python across AWS and GCP, establish engineering standards, support incident response and observability improvements, and influence cross-functional roadmaps. Mentor engineers through technical guidance, reviews, and collaboration while participating in on-call support.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

Build and guide full-stack systems supporting healthcare eligibility, claims, authorizations, clinical data, integrations, and analytics. Own technical architecture, data modeling, infrastructure, migrations, reliability, standards, and technical debt across a domain. Develop core systems, improve engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, and lead technical hiring and decision-making. The role requires hands-on software development with TypeScript, SQL, React, Docker, public cloud infrastructure, and AI development tools.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Design, build, and operate AI-powered testing tools, agent harnesses, Temporal-based workflows, and telemetry/evaluation systems to improve CI/CD reliability and developer productivity across Snapchat's mobile and multi-cloud backend services. Lead cross-team initiatives, ensure availability and scalability, and mentor engineers.

Leads architecture and development of Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, selecting technologies, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, guiding product direction, mentoring engineers, and improving scalability and sustainability. The role collaborates across engineering, product, design, QA, Mozilla, and open-source communities in a fully remote environment.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Thunderbird’s web-based Services products, including calendar and secure file storage offerings. Responsibilities include writing code, prototyping, making technology decisions, developing analytics and infrastructure, solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, collaborating across product and design teams, and improving system scalability and maintainability. The role also contributes to product growth, open-source collaboration, and data-informed decisions within a fully remote international team.

Own and architect a space-based storage platform spanning Linux kernel drivers, NVMe recovery, ZFS pool design, NFS serving, and automated fault recovery. Develop radiation-resilient storage systems, reliability models, fault-injection tests, and integration between drivers and filesystems. Prototype on commodity hardware, validate sustained high-throughput operation, and carry the architecture through platform integration and launch.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Lead the architecture, development, and operation of enterprise-grade full-stack software for clinician-facing and performance-management experiences. Design distributed systems, drive technical initiatives, improve scalability and maintainability, adopt modern technologies, deliver iterative releases, and collaborate across organizations. Mentor engineers and establish strong engineering practices. The role requires polyglot programming, cloud platforms, modern front-end development, SQL, distributed systems, and production operations experience.