Top Engineering Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Build and operate Forge, a full-stack engineering platform for developing, testing, deploying, and diagnosing AI autonomy capabilities. Design composable user interfaces, typed versioned APIs, backend services, application lifecycle workflows, and AI-agent tool integrations. Ensure consistent behavior across local and remote environments while partnering with simulation, autonomy, ML, infrastructure, security, product, and design teams.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, and supports secure, scalable backend applications, REST APIs, microservices, and data-intensive services. Builds distributed processing workflows with Python, PySpark, Azure Databricks, and Azure Data Factory. Responsibilities include API design, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and production support. Collaborates with application, data, platform, architecture, security, and product teams while using approved AI tools to improve engineering productivity.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

Own end-to-end delivery of greenfield, full-stack product areas for Gusto Solo. Design scalable architectures and data models, build backend APIs and frontend experiences, use AI tools and develop AI-native features including MCP tools, and collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, and GTM. Help shape product direction, engineering practices, and technical foundations in a high-autonomy environment.

Design, build, test, and scale Gusto’s invoicing and billing platform, including subscriptions, orders, invoice generation, payments, reporting, and accounting integrations. Lead architecture, performance, reliability, and large-scale refactoring for high-throughput distributed systems. Mentor engineers, collaborate across product and business teams, support new billing models, and use AI tools to accelerate development and testing.

Lead technical development for a new entity-management and compliance product. Execute the technical roadmap, design solutions, implement functionality in legacy systems, collaborate with Product, Design, Support, and Marketing, mentor engineers, improve development processes, and participate in code reviews. The role requires technical leadership, greenfield product development experience, strong communication, and the ability to solve complex software engineering challenges.

Build software, automation, observability, and telemetry systems for a large-scale global enterprise network. Define and measure reliability targets, replace manual operational processes with code, improve incident detection and recovery, support a resilient global DMZ, and codify disaster recovery across regions.

Architect and build native iOS and Android financial products using SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL. Lead mobile architecture, infrastructure, testing, release pipelines, and multi-quarter initiatives while applying AI workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally in a regulated banking environment, resolve ambiguous technical problems, maintain performance and security, and mentor engineers across both platforms.

Leads technical vision, architecture, modernization, and engineering standards across complex domains. Designs scalable cloud, data, microservice, and event-driven systems; ensures implementation quality and operational performance. Partners with engineering and architecture leaders on platform strategy, mentors engineers, drives technical excellence, communicates best practices, and leads cross-divisional initiatives. The role requires hands-on software engineering, solution and enterprise architecture, cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, and extensive technical leadership experience.

Lead and mentor engineering teams building full-stack, cloud-based solutions with distributed microservices and modern technologies. Define service boundaries and integration patterns, establish engineering standards, improve system performance, reduce technical debt, and guide technology strategy. Collaborate with product managers, architects, and Agile teams while developing scalable solutions using languages including Java, Python, and JavaScript and platforms such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spark.

Leads technical vision and architecture for Card Tech while remaining hands-on in software development. Modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, ensures scalable and secure implementations, and mentors engineering teams. The role requires expertise in cloud computing, data architecture, distributed systems, enterprise architecture, and AI-native development, along with leadership of cross-divisional initiatives and talent recruitment.

Lead electrical engineering design and delivery for hyperscale data center facilities. Develop scalable electrical infrastructure solutions, review consultant and contractor designs, validate electrical loads and system performance, conduct technical studies, ensure code compliance, and support testing, inspections, commissioning, troubleshooting, budgets, and schedules. Coordinate with consultants, vendors, IT, operations, mechanical, and project teams. Travel to various data center sites is required.

Provides electrical engineering and operations consulting for IoT and connected hardware products. Analyzes product development lifecycles, identifies bottlenecks, designs and troubleshoots electronic circuits, applies digital electronics and chip design expertise, and improves speed to market, quality, costs, lean manufacturing, and supply chain integration while managing client relationships.

Principal Software Engineer role at Atlassian with flexible work-location options. The provided description contains no specific responsibilities or qualification requirements. Compensation includes a U.S. base salary range varying by geographic pay zone, plus potential benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Architects and builds BuildOps’ integration and data platform, including APIs, services, databases, workflows, event-driven systems, observability, and scalable cloud infrastructure. Leads technical decisions across teams, improves reliability and performance, establishes testing and deployment practices, evaluates technologies, mentors engineers, and drives engineering-wide initiatives through cross-functional influence.

Lead company-wide strategy for software quality, production reliability, and safe delivery. Build shared platform capabilities for release safety, observability, validation, testability, and developer self-service. Identify systemic risks, improve resilience and failure recovery, define reliability metrics, lead cross-functional technical programs, influence architecture without direct authority, and mentor engineers and technical leaders.

Own quality and automation for enterprise SaaS and PaaS deployments. Build agentic workflows for bug triage, reproduction, routing, and resolution; improve automated testing, CI quality gates, environment parity, and release confidence. Collaborate directly with enterprise customers, communicate quality trends, run bug bashes, create evaluation datasets, and ship code fixes. Senior and staff scopes may include setting organization-wide quality strategy, mentoring engineers, and defining automation standards.

Architects, develops, and optimizes a full-stack platform using modern frontend and backend technologies. Leads technical decisions, API and database optimization, observability, testing, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure efforts. Mentors engineers, drives cross-team technical initiatives, evaluates new technologies, and collaborates with product, QA, customers, and business leaders to deliver reliable, scalable software.

Build and operate scalable full-stack software and AI-powered products for physical operations. Own technically complex areas, define technical strategy, develop backend services, APIs, frontend and potentially mobile experiences, and translate customer problems into measurable outcomes. Lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, participate in technical reviews, and raise engineering quality and velocity.

Lead the development of foundational iOS platform systems, shared frameworks, developer tools, architecture standards, and multi-quarter migrations across Cash App and Square. Drive performance, reliability, security, testing, observability, release safety, and AI-assisted development practices. This hands-on individual contributor role influences multiple teams, develops technical leaders, and partners broadly to improve iOS engineering quality, productivity, and product outcomes.

Build and operate data platform infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI systems. Responsibilities include developing Lakehouse and Spark systems, improving performance and reliability, implementing data quality, governance, lineage, metadata, security, and access controls, evaluating query and OLAP technologies, enhancing observability and deployment processes, supporting incident response, collaborating with data teams, contributing to open-source projects, and mentoring engineers.

Own the end-to-end PEO onboarding experience, from discovery through setup. Set technical direction, design durable abstractions, build customer-facing full-stack features, integrate across teams, and improve conversion through funnel instrumentation and experimentation. Use AI tools in engineering workflows and create AI-assisted customer guidance. Raise engineering standards through reviews, testing, observability, and sound tradeoffs while mentoring and influencing engineers across teams.

Build and ship impactful features for Notion’s Android and iOS applications during a 12-week internship. Responsibilities include writing clean, secure, tested, documented code; collaborating with mobile engineers; improving app performance, reliability, and user experience; and potentially optimizing web-stack components. Interns work with mentors and cross-functional teammates from Notion’s New York or San Francisco offices.

Lead technical vision and software architecture for Card Tech while contributing production-ready code. Design scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems and API platforms, ensure performance and operability, leverage cloud-native and AI-enabled development tools, mentor engineers, recruit talent, and promote engineering excellence across the organization.

Leads software engineering and architecture for Card Tech, combining hands-on development with technical mentorship. Defines technical vision, modernizes monoliths into microservices and event-driven platforms, establishes API and design standards, and drives scalable, secure, operable solutions. Partners across divisions, mentors senior engineers, evaluates AI-generated code, and leads architectural strategy and engineering excellence initiatives.