Top Entry Level Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Designs, builds, and integrates ride-experience platforms and microservices. Develops and improves APIs, performance, monitoring, testing, validation, and documentation. Troubleshoots application and platform issues, contributes to architecture and technology roadmaps, and manages project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Build Zip’s core procurement products and architecture as a new graduate software engineer. Responsibilities include designing reliable and scalable features, developing frontend applications and APIs, writing maintainable code, collaborating with product and customer-facing teams, and solving complex technical and product challenges with mentorship from an experienced engineering team.

Design and develop Instabase services, applications, user interfaces, platform components, and reusable frontend technologies. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to deliver features from ideation through production. Evaluate frontend libraries, maintain the frontend stack, and create capabilities used by other teams. Early-career engineers contribute to the codebase quickly and help shape product direction.

Build product features, AI coding agents, cloud infrastructure, and platform capabilities for Replit’s software creation platform. The role involves full-stack development, distributed systems, real-time collaboration, one-click deployments, automation, and scalable development environments. Candidates will collaborate cross-functionally, solve complex technical problems, communicate effectively, and grow into greater responsibility. This is a hybrid full-time role based in Foster City, California, with required office days on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Build and maintain core products and collaborate on larger consulting projects using TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Next.js, GCP, and generative AI frameworks. The role involves hands-on software development within a rapidly growing, remote team serving Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

Build and maintain versioned data ingestion and conflation pipelines that transform complex retail and spatial data into accurate, reliable insights. Responsibilities include entity resolution, golden-record creation, rules-based normalization, RegEx logic, LLM integration, schema evolution, and cost-effective scaling. The role emphasizes engineering rigor, high-fidelity outputs, and production-ready data for consumer dashboards.

Designs and operates production data infrastructure, ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, containerized AWS services, and graph-based systems. Responsibilities include relational, document, and graph database architecture; data quality and lineage; CI/CD automation; and integration of blockchain, financial, and investigative data. Partners with R&D, data scientists, and investigations teams to deliver production software for federal and commercial clients.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Build and maintain enterprise web applications, APIs, and containerized microservices using Python and Django. Develop workflow engines, financial validation logic, relational database schemas, asynchronous integrations, role-based access controls, and CI/CD automation. Support complementary applications across multiple technology stacks while maintaining secure, auditable, and reliable systems.

Build and evolve Netflix’s shared JavaScript application platform, including internal CLIs, SDKs, CI/CD workflows, development tooling, monorepo infrastructure, deployment integrations, and supporting services. Improve platform observability, performance, reliability, and developer experience while partnering across teams, supporting users, defining interfaces, validating infrastructure changes, and providing technical leadership without direct management.

Build and maintain AI-assisted developer productivity tools, coding agents, secure sandboxes, reproducible development environments, and engineering guardrails. Standardize tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex; support personalized AI workflows; collaborate with researchers and engineers; and monitor tool usage, reliability, and costs while preserving code quality and security.

Design, build, and operate secure sandboxing infrastructure for untrusted, model-generated code and tool calls. Develop isolation, scheduling, resource management, lifecycle, observability, abuse detection, and reliability systems supporting thousands of concurrent executions. Improve performance and security across containers, microVMs, kernels, APIs, and virtualization layers while partnering with researchers and product teams.

Research, architect, design, develop, integrate, verify, and test software for high-speed optical networking products. Own a key system component, implement features, solve customer requirements, and collaborate across R&D teams. The role emphasizes C++ development on Linux, object-oriented software, system components, and operational automation, with desirable experience in device drivers, BSP software, and optical networking protocols.

Build and ship end-to-end features for Augment’s iOS app, collaborate closely with product, design, backend, and fellow iOS engineers, and contribute to architecture, code quality, tooling, and long-term product health. The role emphasizes Swift and SwiftUI development, ownership, thoughtful collaboration, feedback, and effective use of AI-assisted development tools.

Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend services, APIs, libraries, and tooling using Java or Go. Diagnose production issues, improve reliability, security, performance, observability, and operational readiness, and participate in monitoring and incident response. Collaborate with product, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams while contributing to reviews, documentation, technical decisions, and technical debt reduction.

Develop and deploy reliable software for a distributed SQL database in a fast-paced production environment. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and owning projects throughout the product lifecycle. Work may involve LLMs, vector indexes, database fault tolerance, SQL query performance, SIMD, LLVM code generation, search, and query optimization. Collaborate with engineering, product, marketing, and sales teams while developing professionally alongside experienced engineers.

Develop and deploy reliable software for SingleStore’s distributed SQL database. Responsibilities include designing, coding, testing, and improving systems involving query optimization, fault tolerance, concurrency, multithreading, server architectures, LLMs, vector indexes, SIMD, and LLVM code generation. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, collaboration across teams, and participation throughout the product lifecycle.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Develop kernel-centric reliability solutions for AI compute clusters and production services. Responsibilities include debugging failures, building diagnostic tools, supporting incident response, performing root-cause analysis, improving kernel and software reliability, and collaborating with systems, hardware, ASIC, and architecture teams on reliability-focused designs.

Designs, develops, deploys, tests, and reviews software applications, features, and defect fixes. Collaborates with team leaders and users to support a product roadmap, analyze requirements, document software, provide developer-level support, and learn existing codebases. The role also involves participating in planning meetings, conferences, and occasional team travel.

Build reliable, scalable software products for Zip’s enterprise procurement platform. Responsibilities include designing frontend applications and components, developing APIs, writing maintainable code, collaborating with product and customer-facing teams, understanding requirements, and shipping customer-facing features. The role offers mentorship while requiring engineers to independently scope and solve complex technical challenges.

Build and ship customer-facing software products and AI applications, including data pipelines, evaluation infrastructure, agentic systems, fraud detection, matching algorithms, contributor tools, and RAG applications. Collaborate directly with customers, process large-scale data, integrate APIs and services, and iterate quickly on high-quality products.

Develop distributed computing algorithms, performance metrics, and analysis tools for Zoox’s Collision Avoidance System. Analyze petabytes of urban driving data, evaluate system performance, and collaborate with CAS Perception, Planning, Systems Design, Mission Assurance, and QA engineers to define autonomous-driving validation metrics and plans.

Build and ship full-stack product experiences that leverage new AI model capabilities. Identify promising technical and product opportunities, rapidly prototype and validate ideas, collaborate with research, applied, product, design, data science, and engineering teams, and use user feedback and experimentation to determine which concepts should scale into larger products.

Build core multimodal backend systems for robotics and Physical AI, including real-time WebRTC video pipelines, hardware-accelerated codecs, petabyte-scale ingestion and storage, LiDAR and telemetry processing, sensor synchronization, and high-performance React and TypeScript interfaces. Engineers may work across infrastructure, spatial data, video, frontend, and AI-native product workflows while independently solving complex technical challenges.