Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

Own and evolve Vercel’s agentic infrastructure and build/deployment systems at scale. Design high-performance microservices, scalable APIs, resilient database schemas, and reliable workflows processing millions of builds daily. Lead projects from technical direction through production operation, improve performance and developer experience, collaborate cross-functionally, participate in on-call rotation, contribute to open source, and establish standards for scalability and reliability.

Build full-stack, agent-driven software for SOX control testing and internal audit workflows. Design reliable and observable LLM agent systems, create structured audit deliverables, own end-to-end technical workstreams, and collaborate with product, design, auditors, and domain experts. Engineers will help shape agentic architecture, AI tooling, evaluation practices, and product direction while working on ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives.

As a Senior or Staff Deployed Software Engineer, you will design and build software solutions, collaborate with teams, and drive technical strategy while engaging with customers to solve complex problems.

Build and scale database infrastructure that enables customers to use Postgres without DBA expertise. Responsibilities include taking a product from alpha to general availability, optimizing queries and data loading, managing schema changes and concurrency, automating database provisioning and fleet operations, improving observability, and shaping architecture through customer collaboration. The role requires hands-on backend engineering, technical leadership, product judgment, and willingness to work across the stack.

Build high-scale internal observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, cost attribution, chargeback, compliance, and auditing. Partner with backend and platform teams to instrument services, evaluate observability infrastructure, and scale systems for Vercel’s production traffic. The role requires TypeScript, production experience with Go, Rust, or Zig, distributed systems expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, and familiarity with observability tooling.

Architect and build a high-performance trading platform for active traders. Develop responsive web interfaces integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools. Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams on large-scale initiatives, emphasizing scalability, performance, API quality, maintainability, developer experience, and end-user usability.

Develop and maintain native iOS applications using Swift and SwiftUI for DraftKings’ financial platform. Responsibilities include building user-facing features, integrating APIs, managing data and state, optimizing performance, monitoring crash analytics, participating in code reviews and testing, and troubleshooting reliability issues. The role collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, compliant mobile experiences.

Build and launch backend identity decisioning systems that validate consumer identity and satisfy KYC regulations. Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Auth, Fraud, Analytics, and engineering teams; decompose projects, write tested and extensible code, monitor system metrics, support availability and on-call operations, debug code, participate in reviews, and contribute to technical decisions and team development.

Build and ship production software across Superhuman’s AI-powered productivity products. Develop features using modern web frameworks, large language models, natural language processing, and intelligent automation. Contribute to scalable distributed systems, testing, deployment, and system design while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams. The role emphasizes mentorship, rapid growth, independent execution, and delivering reliable user experiences to millions of users.

Lead the architecture and evolution of native iOS foundations supporting seller-facing applications. Identify systemic problems, define platform strategy and standards, build prototypes and reference implementations, lead multi-quarter migrations, and establish practices for quality, testing, observability, release safety, and maintainability. Develop senior engineers and create scalable ownership models across teams.

Build and deploy full-stack healthcare financial products used by millions of patients. Develop AI- and ML-powered features, integrate LLMs, enhance an AI billing assistant, and create patient payment solutions. Collaborate with product, design, and partner engineering teams to deliver production-ready software. Contribute to technical planning, coordinate complex development efforts, mentor peers, and maintain high standards for testing, code quality, efficiency, and technical debt management.

Build and operate high-scale CDN serving and caching services for ISR, PPR, image optimization, and other content. Work across Go, Lua, and TypeScript; execute projects from implementation through progressive rollout and production validation. Develop dashboards, metrics, alerts, logs, and end-to-end tests; participate in on-call and incident follow-ups. Collaborate with Next.js and CI/CD teams while improving globally distributed systems and performance.

Own the technical direction and delivery of Benchling’s internal tools and automation portfolio. Build production systems, SaaS integrations, workflow orchestration, CI/CD, and secure enterprise infrastructure. Partner with internal teams to identify automation opportunities, graduate prototypes into reliable systems, support production operations, enable non-engineering builders, and establish engineering standards. The role also includes technical hiring, mentoring, architecture, threat modeling, and selective application of LLMs and agentic workflows.

Build and extend Braze’s Core Objects systems, including high-scale data ingestion pipelines and complex backend services. Improve system performance and cost efficiency while developing new data capabilities and product features. The role involves full-stack development, technical leadership, collaboration in an agile environment, and use of AI-assisted tools to navigate and enhance a large Ruby monolith.

Lead architecture and development of high-scale segmentation systems, data pipelines, APIs, and dashboard experiences. Own backend systems end to end, improve performance and reliability, influence product direction, mentor engineers, and drive operational excellence. Work with massive data volumes and complex real-time workloads while collaborating across engineering, product, and stakeholder teams.

Build and own backend and full-stack systems for partner integrations and patient access. Design scalable platform capabilities for multi-state healthcare programs, convert partner requirements into reusable systems, collaborate with product, data, operations, and clinical teams, and lead projects from architecture through rollout. The role also includes shaping technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.

Lead backend architecture and deliver reusable solutions, unblock engineering teams across the development lifecycle, drive complex design and bug fixes, set code review standards, mentor engineers, collaborate on company-wide projects, and make technical decisions balancing correctness, performance, and customer impact.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Twelve-week software engineering internship building production crypto and blockchain products at Coinbase. Interns write tested code, collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams, participate in code reviews, own an end-to-end project, and learn blockchain concepts. Candidates need programming experience, problem-solving ability, familiarity with web, mobile, backend, or infrastructure development, and responsible generative AI usage with human oversight.

Build and improve full-stack software for engineers operating mission-critical hardware. Responsibilities include developing React and TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces, contributing to backend services and APIs, creating reliable data flows, debugging across systems, writing tested code, and collaborating on greenfield products. The intern will work closely with software engineers and operators while gaining experience across frontend, backend, databases, and hardware-connected systems.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, developer tools, migrations, and lifecycle automation. Solve database scaling, performance, reliability, and availability problems across distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend services. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and queries, lead technical projects, modernize platforms, participate in incident response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Build and operate database and storage platform software, including services, APIs, and developer tools for provisioning, migrations, upgrades, and lifecycle management. Solve scaling, performance, reliability, and data correctness challenges across databases, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and networking. Partner with engineering teams on schemas and platform adoption, lead technical projects through rollout, participate in on-call response, and use AI-assisted tools in development.

Build and operate full-stack applications and AI-facing features for CoreWeave’s internal data platform. Responsibilities include developing TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Python services; designing APIs and relational data models; integrating analytical data platforms; deploying on Kubernetes; and owning production reliability, testing, observability, and on-call support. The role also involves collaborating with non-engineers to define processes, shipping LLM-backed applications, and evaluating AI output quality.