Software Engineer jobs in California

Sentry

San Francisco, CA · $190,000 – $400,000 · Remote

This role involves designing and operating stateful storage systems that power Sentry's application monitoring platform, along with building APIs and abstractions to make storage accessible to product teams. It suits engineers with deep experience in distributed systems who enjoy working on the infrastructure that others depend on, from architectural design through production operation.

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Shield AI

Full-time · San Diego, CA · $130,000 – $240,000

Shield AI seeks a full-stack engineer to build tools within Forge, their platform for developing and validating autonomous systems. This role bridges frontend and backend work, bringing together simulation, data generation, and testing capabilities that enable autonomy developers to move from local development to deployed systems.

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Crusoe

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

You'll architect and operate the control plane for one of the world's largest GPU fleets, building a platform that enables other teams to manage complex infrastructure through APIs, SDKs, and self-serve workflows instead of manual operations. This role combines distributed systems, hardware-software integration, and internal developer platform design to automate fleet operations at unprecedented scale.

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StubHub

Full-time · Aliso Viejo, CA · $200,000 – $250,000

StubHub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build systems that manage seller ticket inventory at scale, focusing on speed, fraud prevention, and compliance. The role combines backend and frontend development with mentoring responsibilities, suited for someone with 6+ years of experience ready to impact millions of users worldwide.

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Bend Studio

Contract · Aliso Viejo, CA

Sony is hiring a senior engineer to design and operate the server infrastructure powering their cloud gaming service across a global network. This role suits someone with deep production systems experience who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems and wants to work on technology that delivers games to millions of players.

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Menlo Ventures Portfolio

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $320,000 – $485,000

This role owns the production systems that process every token Claude generates, managing latency and reliability across all platforms at massive scale. It suits engineers experienced in high-QPS distributed systems who thrive owning operational excellence and making critical trade-offs between performance, reliability, and cost.

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Anyscale

San Francisco, CA · $240,000 – $270,000

This role owns the core architecture and development of Ray Data, a distributed data processing engine that underpins AI workloads at scale. It suits experienced systems engineers comfortable defending tradeoffs between competing technical approaches and solving problems across scheduling, fault tolerance, and performance optimization.

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Vercel

Internship · San Francisco, CA

Join Vercel's engineering team as a summer intern and own a complete project from planning through shipping to production, working alongside experienced engineers in a hybrid San Francisco office. You'll write real code, debug live systems, and ship features that customers use while developing your skills in a fast-paced infrastructure company.

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Intuit

Mountain View, CA · $261,500 – $353,500

A Principal Forward Deployed Engineer working directly with Intuit's highest-value customers and partners to architect and execute complex payment migrations from competitors onto QuickBooks Payments, acting as the hands-on technical lead through discovery, design, execution, and production stabilization. This role suits payments domain experts with deep processor integration experience who thrive owning high-stakes technical relationships end-to-end and can translate nuanced fintech problems into reusable solutions.

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Descript

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $200,000 – $275,000 · Remote

Descript is hiring a product-focused engineer to own meaningful features across their video editing platform, from conception through shipping and measurement. This role suits mid-to-senior engineers who enjoy full-stack work, want to shape product direction alongside designers and PMs, and are drawn to creative tools or AI-assisted workflows.

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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $272,000 – $431,250

This is a hands-on storage systems engineering role focused on designing and implementing block and distributed file storage for NVIDIA's cloud platform. The position suits experienced C developers who have deep Linux kernel expertise and want to architect next-generation storage infrastructure for AI workloads.

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Mixpanel

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $157,500 – $213,000

Build and maintain the distributed systems that execute Mixpanel's analytics queries at massive scale, working on the data execution layer that handles hundreds of trillions of events. This role suits senior engineers who thrive in high-performance backend infrastructure and want to shape the architecture powering an AI-driven analytics platform.

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Relativity Space

Long Beach, CA · $154,000 – $230,000

Relativity Space seeks a senior software engineer to lead the development of safety-critical flight control systems for their Terran R rocket, working across GNC integration, telemetry, and testing infrastructure. This role suits experienced systems programmers who want to architect real-time software for extreme conditions and mentor a growing team.

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Assort Health

San Francisco, CA · $190,000 – $240,000 · Remote

You'll be the technical lead for deploying AI agents into healthcare organizations, handling everything from initial scoping and integration work through production launch and optimization. This role suits experienced engineers who want hands-on impact with customers while solving complex healthcare infrastructure problems.

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Krea AI

Full-time · San Francisco, CA

Krea is hiring a full-stack engineer to build AI-powered creative tools with a strong focus on frontend work. You'll own both the web and mobile experience while maintaining backend services, working on real-time features and scalable infrastructure in a creative-focused team.

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Agility Robotics

Full-time · Fremont, CA · $230,000 – $299,000

This role involves designing and developing low-level C++ software that controls humanoid robots operating in warehouses and manufacturing plants, with responsibility for hardware interfaces, real-time performance, and system reliability. It suits experienced software engineers comfortable bridging hardware and software domains who want to work on robotics systems at scale.

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Kong Company

San Francisco, CA · $150,000 – $275,000 · Remote

Kong is seeking a senior engineer to lead the architectural design of Kong Identity, a multi-tenant identity platform that handles authentication, authorization, and compliance at enterprise scale. This role suits someone with deep expertise in OAuth 2.0, identity federation, and cryptographic systems who has previously built identity platforms serving millions of daily authentication requests.

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Notion

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $135,000 – $155,000 · Remote

This is an entry-level engineering position at Notion for recent graduates, involving full-stack development on product features, internal tools, and system improvements. It suits developers with some internship experience who want to learn in a collaborative environment while building real product impact.

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Amplitude

San Francisco, CA · $220,000 – $331,000

This role leads developer experience and infrastructure initiatives at Amplitude, focusing on cloud-native development platforms and automating engineering workflows. It suits experienced backend and systems engineers who want to set technical direction for how an entire organization builds and ships software.

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KLA-Tencor

Milpitas, CA · $136,300 – $231,700

KLA seeks a software engineer to develop high-performance computing systems for semiconductor manufacturing inspection platforms, working on multi-threaded distributed systems and Linux kernel-level optimization. This role suits experienced systems programmers comfortable with C++, Java, and infrastructure challenges at scale.

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Juniper Networks

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $155,500 – $315,000

HPE is hiring a Principal Software Engineer to architect and lead their next-generation SD-WAN security platform, working on high-performance networking with advanced cryptography and performance optimization. This role suits a seasoned systems architect with deep expertise in secure networking, Linux kernel development, and proven leadership experience shipping large-scale products.

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Workday

Full-time · Pleasanton, CA · $160,100 – $285,100

This role focuses on designing and optimizing high-performance distributed systems that power Workday's core platform, handling mission-critical workloads at enterprise scale. It suits experienced engineers who excel at both architectural design and hands-on optimization, comfortable diving deep into profiling and performance tuning across the full stack from code to cloud infrastructure.

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CrowdStrike

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $140,000 – $215,000

CrowdStrike is hiring a senior back-end engineer to build distributed cloud systems for their identity product group, working closely with UI and sensor teams. The role suits experienced engineers comfortable with ambiguity who can mentor others and leverage AI to solve complex scaling challenges.

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Boeing

Full-time · El Segundo, CA · $135,150 – $182,850

Boeing seeks an experienced engineer to design and implement real-time spacecraft simulation and emulation software for satellite systems, working across hardware platforms and interfacing with diverse technical teams in a CI/CD environment.

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Unity

Full-time · Mountain View, CA · $244,500 – $317,800

Build and operate the distributed systems that power ad ranking and bidding decisions across billions of daily gaming impressions. This role is for experienced backend engineers who can design low-latency, high-throughput inference infrastructure at massive scale.

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