Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

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.

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.

Own reliability, monitoring, and incident response for AI infrastructure; build automation and CI/CD tooling; manage Kubernetes/Docker production workloads; partner with infrastructure, security, and compliance; improve observability and documentation; develop internal full‑stack tooling in Go or Python.

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.

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.

Take end-to-end ownership of a Kubernetes-based, multi-region data platform: architect for high availability and low latency, scale infrastructure, optimize CI/CD, implement observability and IaC, enforce cloud-native security, lead incident response, and ensure production readiness and capacity planning.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.

Lead architecture and technical vision for Rula's RCM Payments team. Design scalable, distributed payment and claims systems, partner with product and clinical stakeholders, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and apply modern engineering practices including microservices, event-driven systems, and full-stack TypeScript/React/Node.js development.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and evolve the monetization platform, focusing on billing systems and integrations across various departments to ensure accurate customer outcomes and financial operations.

Lead front-end technical strategy for Coinbase Advanced trading platform: define and execute a scalable roadmap, deliver a low-latency interface across web and mobile, mentor engineers, anchor complex projects, and ensure high standards for code quality and system design.

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

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.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

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.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and develop high-performance cloud services, resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, ensure engineering best practices, and mentor junior members.

Lead architecture and hands-on implementation of a full-stack platform and production AI systems (LLM integration, RAG, agentic workflows). Ship user-facing features across frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure, testing, and monitoring. Set technical direction, tooling, and engineering practices while partnering with product and program teams.

Senior individual-contributor full-stack engineer who designs, builds, and ships end-to-end product features. Leads technical direction, modernizes legacy systems, debugs distributed systems, owns production reliability and on-call, and mentors engineers. Drives AI-native development adoption while collaborating with Product and Design and improving team practices, observability, testing, and deployment workflows.

Lead architecture, development, and operation of the company data and AI platform. Define technical strategy, build and mentor a high-performing data platform team, drive company-wide initiatives, deliver scalable multi-region data pipelines, oversee ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure and data security, and advocate best practices for lakehouse-style data processing and model governance.

Build and lead internal AI-driven security tooling and automation, support incident response with threat-hunting tools, maintain Kubernetes/serverless and ETL/log pipelines, partner with product teams to reduce risk, and mentor engineers.

Design and build Fieldguide's core platform services, including APIs and systems. Mentor engineers and improve product delivery and system reliability.

As a Staff Frontend Engineer, you'll architect scalable frontend components, lead technical direction, and enhance developer workflows while integrating AI tools at GlossGenius.

Build and enhance AI applications for enterprises, focusing on frontend development using modern technologies like Next.js and React. Collaborate with teams to create intuitive user experiences and optimize UI performance.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll scale the Scale Generative AI Platform, owning product areas, working across multiple tech stacks, and solving engineering challenges.

As a Staff Software Engineer (iOS), you will collaborate with teams to build mobile solutions for media manipulation, promote code quality, and shape the technical vision of VSCO's mobile platform.