Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve reliability, performance, observability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call and incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews and documentation.

Design, build, scale, and operate high-volume payment APIs and distributed systems serving global traffic. Lead complex engineering projects from requirements through production, improve performance, observability, reliability, fault tolerance, and security, and participate in on-call incident response. Collaborate across product and engineering teams, use AI-assisted development tools responsibly, and mentor engineers through technical reviews, documentation, and guidance.

The Back-End Engineer will design and build core platform services, operate production services, and work on AI-powered features while collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring junior engineers.

Own and evolve Vercel’s agentic infrastructure and build/deployment systems at scale. Design high-performance microservices, scalable APIs, resilient database schemas, and reliable workflows processing millions of builds daily. Lead projects from technical direction through production operation, improve performance and developer experience, collaborate cross-functionally, participate in on-call rotation, contribute to open source, and establish standards for scalability and reliability.

As a Senior or Staff Deployed Software Engineer, you will design and build software solutions, collaborate with teams, and drive technical strategy while engaging with customers to solve complex problems.

Build full-stack, agent-driven software for SOX control testing and internal audit workflows. Design reliable and observable LLM agent systems, create structured audit deliverables, own end-to-end technical workstreams, and collaborate with product, design, auditors, and domain experts. Engineers will help shape agentic architecture, AI tooling, evaluation practices, and product direction while working on ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives.

Build and scale database infrastructure that enables customers to use Postgres without DBA expertise. Responsibilities include taking a product from alpha to general availability, optimizing queries and data loading, managing schema changes and concurrency, automating database provisioning and fleet operations, improving observability, and shaping architecture through customer collaboration. The role requires hands-on backend engineering, technical leadership, product judgment, and willingness to work across the stack.

Build high-scale internal observability systems covering metrics, logs, traces, cost attribution, chargeback, compliance, and auditing. Partner with backend and platform teams to instrument services, evaluate observability infrastructure, and scale systems for Vercel’s production traffic. The role requires TypeScript, production experience with Go, Rust, or Zig, distributed systems expertise, cloud infrastructure knowledge, and familiarity with observability tooling.

Build and ship production software across Superhuman’s AI-powered productivity products. Develop features using modern web frameworks, large language models, natural language processing, and intelligent automation. Contribute to scalable distributed systems, testing, deployment, and system design while collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams. The role emphasizes mentorship, rapid growth, independent execution, and delivering reliable user experiences to millions of users.

Build and maintain native Android applications and infrastructure for Redfin’s mobile home-buying experience. Responsibilities include designing complex technical projects, writing maintainable and testable code, reviewing code, documenting systems, collaborating with product and design teams, improving performance, applying Android best practices, and using AI code-generation tools. The role may include on-call support for production systems.

Build and ship full-stack software for CoreWeave’s internal data infrastructure and operational applications. Develop TypeScript, React, and Next.js frontends; Python services on Kubernetes; SQL queries and data models; and AI-enabled interfaces such as text-to-SQL tools, retrieval systems, and agents. Own scoped features through production, including testing and post-release fixes, while collaborating with senior engineers and internal users.

Build and operate high-scale CDN serving and caching services for ISR, PPR, image optimization, and other content. Work across Go, Lua, and TypeScript; execute projects from implementation through progressive rollout and production validation. Develop dashboards, metrics, alerts, logs, and end-to-end tests; participate in on-call and incident follow-ups. Collaborate with Next.js and CI/CD teams while improving globally distributed systems and performance.

Own the technical direction and delivery of Benchling’s internal tools and automation portfolio. Build production systems, SaaS integrations, workflow orchestration, CI/CD, and secure enterprise infrastructure. Partner with internal teams to identify automation opportunities, graduate prototypes into reliable systems, support production operations, enable non-engineering builders, and establish engineering standards. The role also includes technical hiring, mentoring, architecture, threat modeling, and selective application of LLMs and agentic workflows.

Build and own backend and full-stack systems for partner integrations and patient access. Design scalable platform capabilities for multi-state healthcare programs, convert partner requirements into reusable systems, collaborate with product, data, operations, and clinical teams, and lead projects from architecture through rollout. The role also includes shaping technical direction and mentoring engineers.

Develop and deploy customer-focused web, mobile, and backend applications across the full software stack. Design major features, contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code reviews, and ensure secure, high-quality implementations. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams using Agile and SDLC practices. Manage version control, CI/CD, environments, and releases; maintain automated test coverage and perform root-cause analysis. Build and optimize relational data solutions using SQL Server, including complex queries, stored procedures, and performance tuning.

Lead backend architecture and deliver reusable solutions, unblock engineering teams across the development lifecycle, drive complex design and bug fixes, set code review standards, mentor engineers, collaborate on company-wide projects, and make technical decisions balancing correctness, performance, and customer impact.

Twelve-week software engineering internship building production crypto and blockchain products at Coinbase. Interns write tested code, collaborate with engineering, design, and product teams, participate in code reviews, own an end-to-end project, and learn blockchain concepts. Candidates need programming experience, problem-solving ability, familiarity with web, mobile, backend, or infrastructure development, and responsible generative AI usage with human oversight.

Build and improve full-stack software for engineers operating mission-critical hardware. Responsibilities include developing React and TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces, contributing to backend services and APIs, creating reliable data flows, debugging across systems, writing tested code, and collaborating on greenfield products. The intern will work closely with software engineers and operators while gaining experience across frontend, backend, databases, and hardware-connected systems.

Design, build, deploy, and support scalable Java microservices on AWS. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, code reviews, troubleshooting, proof-of-concept development, and cross-functional collaboration. Work with high-throughput data, messaging systems, distributed architectures, observability, and AI-assisted development tools. Participate in on-call support, mentor engineers, lead architectural initiatives, and deliver reliable SaaS platform features.

Design, build, test, launch, and operate full-stack services automating responses to legal, regulatory, and civil requests. Develop backend systems, internal web tools, and integrations across microservice and event-driven architectures. Collaborate with Counsel, Compliance, and Operations while handling sensitive customer data. Participate in on-call, incident response, code reviews, modernization efforts, and responsible use of AI-powered development tools.

Develop server-side poker game features and gameplay functionality in Go for high-performance, large-scale applications. Build and integrate REST and gRPC APIs, SDKs, tools, and technologies; extend core systems; contribute to architecture, security, scalability, testing, and operations. Collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders, participate in long-term initiatives, review code, improve processes, and deliver solutions for live mobile game titles.

Lead the technical direction and implementation of large-scale SaaS product features. Build secure, reliable, maintainable, well-tested software; evaluate architectural trade-offs; debug team inefficiencies; and contribute to code reviews, documentation, and complex bug fixes. Collaborate across product, design, and engineering, influence strategy, identify organizational blockers, mentor engineers, and improve engineering practices around testing, performance, security, privacy, and reliability.

Build full-stack developer experience tooling for Superhuman Docs, including internal platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment tools, build systems, local development environments, testing workflows, golden paths, and documentation. Partner with engineers, business-unit leaders, and the central platform team to define developer productivity roadmaps and metrics. Improve release speed, reliability, and engineering workflows across a hybrid monolith and microservices architecture.

Paid 12-week software engineering internship involving coding and shipping product features, full-lifecycle development, technical training, mentorship, and collaboration on Atlassian cloud and core products. Interns will apply programming, data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals while working with senior engineers. Preferred experience includes prior software engineering projects or internships, AI/ML exposure, and familiarity with design patterns.

Own the development and maintenance of large-scale React Native applications for iOS and Android. Lead architecture improvements, React Native upgrades, native module development, performance optimization, automated testing, CI/CD reliability, and production debugging. Collaborate with cross-functional product pods, contribute to technical discovery and architecture, mentor engineers, and raise engineering standards while delivering scalable, maintainable mobile experiences.