Top Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the Data Storage team, managing data stores and developing strategies for high-scale batch workloads and low-latency data access, while fostering engineering excellence.

Lead end-to-end SDLC and architecture for AI-infused, enterprise-grade full-stack applications. Build Copilot/agent solutions, enforce engineering best practices, mentor engineers, collaborate with PMs and UX, maintain reliability, and drive continuous improvement and automation.

Lead design and delivery of scalable Azure Storage control-plane services for AI-scale workloads. Architect distributed systems and orchestration, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, own service reliability as a DRI, and partner across teams to define the technical roadmap enabling training, inference, and agentic AI at hyperscale.

Build and operate high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines and observability capabilities for Azure AI/HPC cloud infrastructure. Design and deliver scalable services, identify operational and reliability improvements, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and influence architecture and roadmaps. Partner across engineering and platform teams while mentoring engineers and applying distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and cloud operations practices.

Build developer-experience tooling and frameworks that streamline development, testing, packaging, and production releases. Lead release tooling designed to move code to production within 10 minutes, implement quality feedback loops, improve engineering workflows through user feedback, and promote effective engineering practices. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers while helping scale Benchling’s tools, processes, and engineering organization.

Build and scale database infrastructure that enables customers to use production-grade Postgres without DBA expertise. Lead architecture and roadmap from alpha to general availability, improve query performance, indexing, schema evolution, reliability, permissions, recovery, provisioning, observability, and fleet operations. Partner directly with early customers, contribute across backend and client systems, and provide technical leadership while remaining hands-on.

Lead and grow the Money Movement engineering team responsible for Gusto’s payment rails, APIs, partner integrations, and tier-one money movement systems. Coach engineers, recruit talent, guide technical execution, own reliability and on-call operations, and collaborate with Product, Operations, Accounting, and Treasury. Drive migration from the monolith to a standalone Payments Service with modular APIs, expand domestic and international payment capabilities, and ensure secure, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective payment processing.

The Senior Rendering Engineer will develop rendering technologies, optimize performance, modify shaders, and mentor junior engineers, collaborating within a creative team to enhance game visuals.

Lead Workday functional engineering for HCM, Recruiting, Compensation, Payroll, and Benefits. Configure business processes, calculated fields, reports, and integrations; translate business needs into scalable solutions; provide production support; troubleshoot and test changes; maintain documentation; research Workday updates; and collaborate with product owners, HR partners, stakeholders, and business teams to improve processes.

Build and operate blockchain network infrastructure connecting protocols such as Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase services. Design reliable APIs, SDKs, data contracts, observability, and SLOs while leading multi-quarter chain integrations, re-architecture, and migration initiatives. Develop high-throughput distributed systems, decompose legacy architectures into microservices, improve latency, reliability, and cost, and participate in on-call ownership.

Lead development and ownership of the Roku BrightScript client platform: map OTT modules to BrightScript, design scalable SceneGraph stacks and thread-safe task models, integrate DRM and ad architectures, optimize playback and memory on low-memory devices, and establish linting, static analysis, device benchmarking, automated testing, and AI-assisted workflows.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll build systems for autonomous buildings, develop product features collaboratively, and enhance core infrastructure scalability and reliability.