Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Own Songkick engineering across backend, mobile, data pipelines, APIs, and notifications. Lead its technical integration with Suno, architect systems that aggregate and normalize touring data, evaluate and modernize a large codebase, and influence engineering roadmaps and practices. The role requires hands-on software development, strong API and architecture skills, collaboration with mobile and product teams, and comfort working in ambiguous, fast-paced startup environments.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.

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

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.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Provide technical leadership and hands-on development for Teamfight Tactics build services, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, release management, developer tools, and foundational deployment systems. Optimize build performance, monitoring, metrics, and workflows across mobile and desktop environments. Collaborate with gameplay, backend, and core technology teams, drive architectural decisions, maintain engineering standards, support production and internal builds, and mentor engineers.

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 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 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.

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 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.