Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Build AI applications and workflows that drive revenue using Vercel AI Cloud. Partner with Sales, Marketing, Success, and Data to identify user pain, ship high-impact solutions, test new features, and publish best practices. The role involves daily software development, AI model and API integration, automation, and collaboration with GTM teams. It is remote, with office anchor days for employees near select offices.

Lead the design and development of secure, scalable, high-throughput payment platform services. Build payment orchestration, fraud and risk capabilities, multi-provider integrations, and global bill payment products. Contribute hands-on to production code and proofs of concept, establish technical direction, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and promote AI tools that improve engineering productivity.

Develop firmware for battery-powered IoT sensors, Linux gateways, and connected devices. Responsibilities include hardware selection, board bring-up, peripheral drivers, bootloaders, firmware updates, power and connectivity management, low-level debugging, and cross-functional product delivery. The role provides senior technical leadership, mentors engineers, and guides firmware from architecture through production launch, with emphasis on BLE, cellular IoT, embedded security, OTA reliability, and manufacturing quality.

Designs, deploys, and supports enterprise infrastructure across data centers, offices, engineering environments, and hybrid cloud platforms. Responsibilities include Active Directory, compute, virtualization, storage, Windows and Linux systems, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring, automation, Kubernetes support, and infrastructure resiliency. The role leads complex technical initiatives, troubleshoots critical incidents, develops infrastructure standards, partners with cybersecurity and networking teams, and mentors engineers. Regular on-site presence in the San Mateo Bay Area and occasional travel are required.

Build and maintain internal developer platforms, shared services, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability systems, automation, and self-service tooling. Partner with engineering teams to improve development workflows, deployment reliability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity. Lead foundational technical projects from architecture through rollout and ongoing maintenance while balancing scalability, reliability, and developer experience.

Lead technical direction of Airwallex's mobile platform across iOS and Android. Design and evolve core architecture, own shared libraries and CI/CD pipelines, improve security, reliability, performance and observability, manage mobile releases and on-call, drive cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers while defining mobile best practices and developer experience.

Lead the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems, modernize monolithic applications, and improve developer experience through CI/CD, automated testing, refactoring, and TDD. Make major architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers through complex technical challenges. Collaborate with product owners and designers in an agile environment while building and operating reliable software for millions of users.

Lead organization-wide technical initiatives for Gusto’s API and AI agent platform. Design reliable, scalable API contracts and agent-facing tools, write clean Ruby on Rails code, mentor engineers, improve reliability and observability, engage developer customers, and troubleshoot production issues.

Build and maintain infrastructure tooling for thousands of servers and distributed services. Responsibilities include host provisioning, configuration management, rapid code deployment, service monitoring, automated testing, linting, and infrastructure supporting high-volume real-time data pipelines. The role involves end-to-end project ownership, frequent code delivery, debugging complex distributed systems, and collaboration within a high-performing engineering team.

Design, build, deploy, and operate Philo’s scalable server-side ad insertion and programmatic advertising services. Develop resilient data pipelines, ad integrations, identity and measurement solutions, monitoring tools, and highly available microservices. Collaborate with ad ecosystem partners, video delivery, ad operations, data science, and business stakeholders to optimize ad delivery, reliability, performance, security, and compliance with industry standards.

Own the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems supporting growth across acquisition, activation, conversion, retention, and expansion. Design distributed systems, experimentation platforms, event-driven architectures, and data pipelines. Build intelligent decision systems and personalized journeys using customer and product signals. Lead ambiguous cross-functional initiatives, improve reliability and observability, mentor engineers, and uphold secure, compliant engineering standards.

Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and operation of secure, scalable backend applications, APIs, microservices, and data-intensive services. Build Python and PySpark solutions using Azure technologies, establish API and engineering standards, improve observability and reliability, troubleshoot production issues, and drive secure software delivery. Partner across technical teams, mentor engineers, conduct architecture and code reviews, modernize systems, and responsibly apply AI tools to development and operations.

Lead technical execution, architecture, roadmap, and delivery for the Loyalty product. Manage and grow engineering teams, drive design and operational excellence, ensure reliability/observability, coordinate cross-team integrations, and deliver scalable multi-tenant SaaS features integrated with Zeta’s platform and AI capabilities.

Own and improve Hex’s corporate IT infrastructure, including identity, endpoints, SaaS applications, employee lifecycle systems, office technology, and asset management. Build automation and AI agents, manage macOS fleets, strengthen monitoring and security practices, resolve complex operational issues, and partner with Security, People, Finance, Engineering, vendors, and consultants. The role is hands-on and expected to progressively assume day-to-day leadership of the IT function.

Develop software for clinical brain-computer interface applications, including BCI data curation, neural decoding algorithms, simulated and real-data evaluation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, code reviews, and feature development. Collaborate with engineering, neuroscience, machine learning, and quality teams to define requirements and support clinical studies. Regular travel between Austin and Oakland offices is required.

Designs portfolio construction algorithms, prototypes, production tools, analytics, and reporting for index fixed income investments. Partners with portfolio managers, traders, and technology teams to automate workflows, improve investment processes, and develop scalable algorithm platforms. The role also involves portfolio management activities, process optimization, user feedback integration, and communicating quantitative and technical concepts to stakeholders.

Design and build Genius AI’s software factory, including CI platforms, deployment tooling, infrastructure-as-code guardrails, observability, alerting, SLOs, and incident-response systems. Lead infrastructure platform direction, enable safe self-service for engineers and AI agents, improve deployment velocity and reliability, review complex technical changes, and mentor engineers. The role requires hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD at scale, progressive delivery, and internal developer tooling.

Lead camera ISP tuning and image quality evaluation for autonomous vehicle cameras. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and vendors to define specs, characterize sensors, develop ISP configurations, run objective/subjective IQ tests (Imatest), and optimize ISP for perception performance in production vehicles.

Design, build, deploy, and operate extensibility platform systems, including apps, extensions, APIs, event and webhook platforms, notifications, MCP, and customizable UI infrastructure. Lead projects end to end, collaborate cross-functionally, improve platform scalability and maintainability, and establish engineering best practices. The role focuses on domain modeling, product distribution, installation, configuration, lifecycle management, and developer experience.

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.

Develop and maintain Crunchyroll’s iOS and Apple TV applications using Swift and SwiftUI. Implement features, coordinate technical designs and cross-team dependencies, conduct code reviews, improve automated testing and code coverage, and optimize performance for memory-constrained, multithreaded devices. Collaborate with product and engineering teams while supporting scalable Apple platform solutions. The role is hybrid in San Francisco.

Design and implement high-performance Go services for a distributed cloud control plane. Lead complex technical initiatives, develop gRPC and REST microservices, solve distributed-systems and operational challenges, mentor engineers, improve architecture and workflows, and support production systems through on-call monitoring and incident response.

Lead full stack development for BlackRock’s Arya fintech platform, building React and TypeScript interfaces, Python microservices, relational database structures, and Kubernetes deployments. Own features end to end, modernize enterprise technologies, collaborate with users and project teams, lead initiatives, mentor junior engineers, contribute to recruitment, and support agile software development.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing and developing backend services, APIs, and data models powering healthcare scheduling and availability systems. The role leads architecture for complex, scalable scheduling logic, drives cross-team technical initiatives, ensures operational excellence, collaborates with product and design teams, mentors engineers, and contributes to engineering quality. Primary technologies include C#/.NET and AWS, with opportunities to work across the stack using React and TypeScript.

Design, build, and maintain blockchain and payments infrastructure; develop scalable microservices and secure RESTful APIs to transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols; integrate with banks and fintech; own system design, testing, deployment, and troubleshooting; ensure reliability, code quality, and strong test coverage while collaborating with product and engineering teams.