Software Engineer jobs in California

Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · $250,000 – $300,000

Crusoe seeks a software engineer to develop diagnostics, automation, and observability tooling for their GPU compute infrastructure and data centers. This role suits experienced engineers who thrive solving complex hardware and fleet management problems at scale.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $181,000 – $271,000

A staff-level infrastructure engineer role focused on building and operating a stack of interconnected agentic AI systems that support aerospace engineering work. This suits someone with deep production infrastructure experience who has deployed agent frameworks in real environments and wants to evolve emerging technologies from prototypes into reliable systems that other engineers depend on daily.

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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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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $405,000

This role leads the GTM Systems team through a maturation of its engineering practices, establishing standards for code review, CI/CD, testing, and AI-assisted development as the platform scales to handle critical sales and transaction data. It suits someone who has grown delivery pipelines for teams, led adoption of new engineering practices, and can influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $130,000 – $150,000

Join Notion as an early-career software engineer (0–2 years experience) building core product features, AI integrations, and platform infrastructure that millions use daily. This role suits engineers who want meaningful ownership, customer impact, and mentorship from experienced teams while shipping real features end-to-end.

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Amplitude

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

This role involves designing and optimizing Amplitude's Nova OLAP engine to handle AI agent workloads at scale, working across query execution, storage, and cloud infrastructure. It suits experienced systems engineers who excel at making distributed data systems faster, cheaper, and more reliable while mentoring peers.

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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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Astranis

San Francisco, CA · $115,000 – $150,000

A satellite communications company seeks a test engineer to design software architectures for hardware validation and automated testing across vehicle integration and flight operations. This role suits experienced embedded systems developers comfortable collaborating across electrical and mechanical teams to deliver ground control systems and test automation for advanced spacecraft.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $195,840 – $293,760

This role develops autonomous control and coordination systems for defense platforms across air, sea, and space domains, combining advanced control theory with practical software integration. It suits engineers who enjoy blending theoretical optimization with real-world implementation on systems that have immediate operational impact.

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Crusoe

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

Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to develop diagnostics, automation, and observability tooling for managing their growing fleet of GPU servers and data centers. This role suits experienced engineers comfortable with hardware-adjacent infrastructure work who can independently solve complex problems in high-performance computing environments.

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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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Bend Studio

Full-time · San Mateo, CA · $137,300 – $205,900

You'll develop and maintain SDKs and frameworks that power user experiences across PlayStation platforms, working with application teams to ensure features meet performance requirements. This role suits software engineers with C++ experience who want to work on foundational systems for a major entertainment platform.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $405,000

Build foundational infrastructure and shared components that power Claude.ai across all platforms, enabling product teams throughout Anthropic to ship features faster and more reliably. This role suits engineers who excel at platform architecture and developer experience, and want their work to have multiplied impact across the entire organization.

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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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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $299,000 – $352,000 · Remote

Lead the rollout and long-term operation of Go as a production-grade platform at Notion alongside TypeScript. This role suits experienced backend engineers who have built and maintained platform infrastructure that other teams depend on, and who want to shape how a growing organization standardizes its backend technology stack.

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Together AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $160,000 – $230,000

Together AI is seeking a senior backend engineer to build distributed systems and cloud infrastructure for their AI acceleration platform, managing GPU scheduling, global compute resources, and customer-facing cloud services. This role suits experienced system builders comfortable with large-scale distributed architecture, Kubernetes, and database design.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $280,000

Astranis seeks a senior embedded software engineer to develop flight control software for satellites in high orbits, working across firmware, ground systems, and hardware integration. This role suits experienced C++ developers interested in space technology who can architect complex systems and mentor junior engineers on government and commercial programs.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $150,000 – $230,000

Staff-level role designing and building a data platform that integrates configurations, training data, and operational signals through a knowledge-graph API. Suits experienced engineers who want hands-on technical leadership balancing developer productivity, system performance, and long-term maintainability in a defense-tech context.

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