Software Engineer jobs in California

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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Kong Company

San Francisco, CA · $250,000 – $270,000 · Remote

This role leads the architectural design and implementation of Kong's agent marketplace infrastructure, building the transaction systems and coordination layer that enables machine-to-machine commerce. It suits an experienced distributed systems architect who has shipped autonomous agent applications and wants to establish Kong's platform leadership in the agentic era.

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AeroVironment

Full-time · Moorpark, CA · $147,000 – $224,250

This role leads embedded software development for unmanned aircraft and robotic systems, writing low-level code for sensors, processors, and payloads that fly in real devices. It suits experienced engineers comfortable with C/C++, Python, hardware protocols, and the embedded Linux stack who want to move into a leadership position on defense technology.

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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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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA · $272,000 – $431,250

A principal-level systems software engineer role focused on designing and implementing core GPU kernel scheduling features within NVIDIA's CUDA Driver platform. This position suits experienced C/C++ developers with deep OS-level knowledge who want to shape the software foundation enabling AI, scientific computing, and graphics workloads on NVIDIA hardware.

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Intel

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA · $149,600 – $211,200

A mid-level software engineer will build and own key subsystems for Intel's chassis automation tool, which translates high-level SoC infrastructure requirements into RTL, register definitions, and verification collateral. The role suits someone comfortable with full-stack tool development who wants to influence next-generation chip architectures from the ground up.

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CrowdStrike

Full-time · Sunnyvale, CA · $120,000 – $180,000

This role builds globally distributed cloud systems for CrowdStrike's asset detection platform, handling infrastructure at massive scale using Go, Python, and AWS. It suits engineers with 3+ years of production experience who want to grow in cloud architecture and distributed systems without requiring prior security expertise.

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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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Broadcom Inc.

San Jose, CA · $143,800 – $230,000

A Principal-level software engineer position developing control software and firmware for complex electronic products, with ownership spanning from initial design through customer deployment and field support. This role suits experienced embedded systems engineers who want deep technical leadership in a small-team environment without large organizational overhead.

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NIO

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $192,100 – $249,600

This role develops the operating system and networking core for autonomous vehicle platforms at NIO, requiring deep expertise in embedded systems, kernel-level code, and hypervisor technologies. It suits experienced systems engineers who thrive on performance optimization and can mentor others in a collaborative environment.

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Expedia Group

Full-time · San Jose, CA · $199,000 – $278,500

This is a senior full-stack engineering role building AI-powered loyalty and engagement systems for Expedia's global travel platform. The role suits experienced engineers who can own complex distributed services end-to-end and integrate AI/ML capabilities into customer-facing products.

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XPeng

Full-time · Santa Clara, CA

This is a campus recruiting position for a new graduate joining a team building autonomous driving and physical AI systems using foundation models and reinforcement learning. The role suits someone with machine learning fundamentals who wants to work on large-scale AI infrastructure or software engineering in autonomous systems.

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Front

San Francisco, CA · $177,900 – $203,700

Front seeks an experienced backend engineer to lead technical strategy and ownership of high-volume email delivery infrastructure that processes tens of millions of messages daily. This role combines system architecture and hands-on development for a critical platform serving thousands of B2B companies.

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Motive

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $140,000 – $193,000

This role involves designing and operating backend systems that process IoT telemetry from hundreds of thousands of devices to give fleet operators real-time visibility into equipment location and health. It suits experienced engineers comfortable with distributed systems, stream processing, and cloud infrastructure who want to work near hardware while building scalable cloud services.

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Intercom

San Francisco, CA · $215,000 – $237,000

This role pairs deep technical expertise with strategic customer engagement, embedding engineers within key accounts to solve complex problems with AI customer service software. It suits experienced engineers who thrive on customer collaboration, technical leadership, and influencing product direction.

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Together AI

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

A fullstack engineer at an AI platform company who will own product features end-to-end across developer-facing surfaces like model playgrounds and fine-tuning tools. This role suits engineers who care about shipping real value to users and enjoy moving between backend and frontend code within a small, fast-moving team.

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Gofundme

San Francisco, CA

GoFundMe is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the technical direction of their checkout platform for nonprofits, owning architecture decisions, testing strategy, and observability while mentoring a team and collaborating across product and design. This role suits an experienced frontend engineer who thrives on clean code, performance optimization, and the satisfaction of building critical infrastructure that directly enables charitable giving.

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Pylon

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $180,000 – $280,000

Pylon is hiring a full-stack software engineer to build features that help customer support and success teams use AI more effectively, with a focus on LLM observability, prompt execution, and search infrastructure. This role suits engineers with 3+ years of product experience who thrive in early-stage startup environments, move fast, and want hands-on ownership of projects from conception through delivery.

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Pika Labs

Palo Alto, CA · $250,000 – $350,000

Pika seeks a Staff-level backend engineer to architect and scale the distributed systems, APIs, and cloud infrastructure supporting their AI video creation platform. This role suits experienced backend leaders who thrive designing systems for real-time collaboration and high-traffic creative workflows, and who want to mentor engineers while shaping technical direction at a well-funded startup.

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Astranis

Full-time · San Francisco, CA · $150,000 – $215,000

Astranis seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design test automation software and ground control systems for satellites in orbit, working across hardware integration and flight validation. This role suits experienced developers comfortable with low-level debugging, embedded systems, and collaborative work in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

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Thrive Market

Full-time · Playa Vista, CA · $160,000 – $190,000 · Remote

A fullstack engineer role focused on architecting and operating high-traffic systems that members interact with daily, across checkout, accounts, and renewal flows. Suited for engineers with strong fundamentals in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and relational data modeling who prefer designing solutions over syntax and can reason about systems at scale.

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