Software Engineer jobs in California

Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000 · Remote

This role involves building and deploying AI products for U.S. government and allied democracies, with a focus on meeting compliance, security, and operational requirements specific to the public sector. It suits experienced full-stack or backend engineers who thrive in early-stage product work and can navigate the unique constraints of government environments.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $165,000 – $276,000

This role combines engineering with customer success, placing you directly in enterprise implementation engagements where you'll architect solutions, write production code, and drive measurable outcomes. It suits engineers who thrive owning projects end-to-end and prefer building for real customers over traditional support work.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $290,000

A backend engineer role focused on building and optimizing the inference platform that serves large language models and multimodal AI at scale. Ideal for someone who thrives on low-latency optimization, distributed systems design, and making cutting-edge ML research production-ready across thousands of GPUs.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $120,000 – $230,000

This role involves building shared infrastructure and services that span Shield AI's autonomy software, aircraft, and simulation platforms. It suits experienced full-stack engineers who want to own significant technical decisions and shape how multiple product teams interact.

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Crusoe

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $215,000 – $260,000

Crusoe Cloud is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of their Software Defined Networking infrastructure, focusing on kernel-level optimization and high-performance packet processing. This role suits experienced systems engineers who have built production networking systems and want to architect next-generation cloud networking at scale.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $220,500 – $298,500

A senior technical leadership role at Intuit's emerging fintech division, tasked with architecting and validating next-generation payment protocols for AI-driven financial systems. This suits someone with deep distributed systems expertise and a track record of shaping technical strategy across complex, interdependent teams at scale.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $184,000 – $287,500

This role develops the workflow platform that orchestrates NVIDIA's chip-design infrastructure, converting engineering specifications into automated, reliable production pipelines that handle dependencies, job execution, and validation across complex projects. It suits experienced systems engineers with strong Linux fundamentals and a track record of owning build, release, or HPC infrastructure at scale.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $154,000 – $230,000

You'll develop full-stack applications that automate manufacturing and launch operations for Relativity's rocket factory, collaborating directly with engineers and operators to build tools for planning, scheduling, and data analysis. This role suits experienced engineers who enjoy cross-functional problem-solving and are excited to shape the software backbone of a space technology company from an early, critical stage.

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Bend Studio

San Mateo, CA · $193,300 – $289,900

This role focuses on architecting and optimizing video codecs for PlayStation's SDK and cloud gaming platform, combining low-level performance engineering with machine learning techniques. It suits engineers with deep GPU programming expertise who want to work on high-impact multimedia infrastructure at scale.

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Notion

San Francisco, CA · $213,000 – $320,000 · Remote

This role leads the development of Notion's database block and related features, requiring an experienced engineer to design database properties, views, and permission systems at scale. It suits senior engineers with a strong track record of shipping complex products end-to-end and an interest in shaping how teams model and work with data.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $198,000 – $331,000

This role involves deep technical work on Amplitude's Nova OLAP engine, optimizing a distributed query system that powers analytics for thousands of customers and increasingly autonomous AI agents. It's ideal for a systems engineer who enjoys solving complex performance and reliability problems across the full stack of a modern data platform.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role leads the technical architecture for Sentry's core issue-tracking platform, which processes billions of events daily. You'll make strategic decisions on distributed systems design, performance optimization, and product features while mentoring engineers and collaborating across teams.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000 · Remote

Staff+ Software Engineer position building AI-native tools for hiring, onboarding, and people operations at Anthropic. This role is ideal for experienced fullstack engineers comfortable shipping features independently and working directly with HR stakeholders to solve real people-management problems using LLMs.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $250,000

A high-leverage systems engineering role building the CI/CD pipelines, release infrastructure, and developer tooling that let Together AI's engineering team ship reliably. You'll own production systems end-to-end, from deployment orchestration to local dev environments, working across the organization to eliminate friction and keep engineers focused on products rather than fighting their tools.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $212,000 – $318,000

This role is for a systems integration engineer who builds cross-language software and improves CI/CD pipelines for a defense-tech company's autonomy and simulation products. It suits experienced C++ developers comfortable with distributed systems and third-party integrations.

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Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $170,000 – $205,000

Crusoe Cloud is seeking an experienced distributed systems engineer to design and operate the network control plane that manages edge, backbone, and data center infrastructure as the company scales its cloud services. This role suits someone who enjoys solving hard scalability problems, mentoring peers, and taking ownership of mission-critical infrastructure that directly enables rapid network operations.

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Intuit

San Diego, CA · $188,500 – $255,000

Intuit is seeking a cloud software engineer to build and operate a self-service platform that automatically onboards their public-facing traffic to Akamai CDN and WAF, with responsibility for designing security policies, DNS lifecycle management, and directing AI agents to automate edge infrastructure work. This role suits someone with deep Akamai expertise, strong networking knowledge, and the ability to write software in Python, Go, and React while managing critical 24/7 infrastructure for 100 million customers.

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NVIDIA

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $152,000 – $241,500

NVIDIA is looking for a senior systems software engineer to develop diagnostic software for next-generation GPUs, taking hardware from design through production and into customer systems. The role suits experienced low-level systems programmers with deep knowledge of hardware architecture and the ability to work across complex codebases spanning kernels, drivers, and emulation.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $181,000 – $271,000

This role focuses on building a fault-tolerant storage platform for a space-based data center, handling custom Linux kernel drivers, ZFS pool architecture, and automated recovery systems that must survive years of radiation exposure in orbit. It suits experienced kernel engineers who combine deep storage systems knowledge with the ability to design and validate hardware-adjacent software for mission-critical environments.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $405,000 – $485,000

A software engineer role building Claude Security, Anthropic's cybersecurity product suite. You'll work across the full stack from prototype to production, balancing research insights with customer needs to ship features that matter.

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Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $155,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role builds the infrastructure that powers AI agents diagnosing production issues for Sentry's customers, requiring expertise in distributed systems, LLMs, and languages like Python and TypeScript. It suits senior engineers who want to own foundational AI platform work and thrive in cross-functional teams shipping real features.

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