Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will architect and optimize a full-stack platform, lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence engineering direction for high-quality software products.

The Staff Frontend Engineer will design and implement complex frontend systems, lead engineering efforts, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a sophisticated SaaS platform.

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 Software Engineer, you'll lead AI-powered product delivery, shape platform architecture, and drive initiatives like advertising systems and AI-generated content.

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.

Lead design and delivery of backend and data-driven services: translate product requirements into technical designs, implement and deploy production cloud services, mentor engineers, review code, drive technical decisions, and own the technical excellence and roadmap for your team.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead design, development, and mentoring in building Embedded Finance capabilities while ensuring high-quality production services.

The Staff ML Platform Engineer will design and develop real-time ML systems, focus on infrastructure components, and set technical direction, partnering with other teams to meet business goals.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

Lead and build a new Trust & Safety engineering domain: design and implement systems to detect and mitigate fraud, billing anomalies, and credential abuse. Architect product and operational solutions, mentor engineers, define processes, and deliver scalable, auditable safety tooling across internal and external workflows.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance the core platform to automate leasing processes, develop new features, and improve software architecture while driving engineering best practices.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll develop full-stack software applications, mentor team members, and participate in design discussions while advocating for best coding practices.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will enhance platform engineering by improving deployment strategies and developer experiences, establishing reliable systems and mentorship across teams.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll develop an AI-first platform, design cloud-native APIs, and collaborate on Site Builder experiences with a focus on scalability and quality code.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement the backend architecture for Marimo's molab, focusing on high availability, low latency, and system stability, while utilizing CoreWeave's infrastructure.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Lead the technical direction of Care & Onboarding platforms by driving architectural decisions, overseeing large initiatives, and enhancing engineering quality.

Lead architecture and multi-year technical strategy for financial data pipelines and reporting. Design and deliver backend services in Go, ensure accuracy, timeliness, and auditability of financial data, and partner with Finance/Accounting/Tax to translate regulatory requirements into scalable systems. Mentor senior engineers and set architectural standards across Financial Engineering.

Lead architecture and technical strategy for an internal platform that provides operational visibility into high-volume fund movements. Drive AI-first tooling, build fault-tolerant search and remediation systems, align cross-functionally, and elevate engineering quality through mentorship, design reviews, and process improvements.

Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability.

The role involves owning the architecture and technical direction of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing high-reliability systems for global payment processing, and leading cross-functional collaborations to create efficient, compliant solutions. Responsibilities also include mentoring team members and enhancing operational excellence through AI-driven improvements.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Lead long-term technical vision and roadmap for the Overseer platform to ensure correctness across Coinbase fund flows. Own architecture, design and delivery of real-time detection, invariant frameworks, and partner APIs. Drive cross-team alignment, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, lead P0 initiatives, and apply generative AI responsibly to scale automated guardrails and enforcement capabilities.