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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
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HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
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Senior Systems Engineer
Carlsbad, California, United States
$125k-$140k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Alphatec Spine
Alphatec SpineNASDAQ: ATEC: Designs and manufactures surgical implants and instruments for spine surgery.
7+ YOEBS in engineering, 7+ years engineering experience with 2+ years systems engineering for software/cloud products; expertise in distributed/cloud systems, SDLC/Agile, requirements management, design control, QMS, and regulated product development.
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), REST APIs, microservices, DevOps, Quality Management System (QMS)
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HPC Systems Engineer (Linux / Infrastructure)
San Diego, California, United States
$116k-$209k/yr OnsiteFull Time
General Atomics
General Atomics: Designs and manufactures unmanned aircraft and nuclear technology systems.
15+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 15+ years systems administration experience, deep Linux stack knowledge (NFS, ZFS, BTRFS, mdadm, LVM), scripting with Python/Ansible/Bash, troubleshooting distributed systems; SLURM and parallel file system experience desirable.
Lustre, BeeGFS, WEKA, Ceph, SLURM, Ansible, Python, Bash, Docker, Podman, Apptainer, NFS, ZFS, BTRFS, mdadm, LVM
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Systems Software Engineer, Generalist
Austin or San Diego
OnsiteFull Time
Saronic
Saronic: Building autonomous surface vessels for maritime defense operations.
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience; proficiency in C++, Python, Rust, or Go; Linux development; experience with hardware-integrated systems, distributed and real-time systems, debugging, testing, and performance optimization.
C++, Python, Rust, Go, Linux, ROS, ROS2, RTOS
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Software Engineer, Database Systems
San Diego or Austin
$145k-$175k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Cirrascale
Cirrascale: Provides specialized GPU-based cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.
5+ YOEU.S. citizen required; 5+ years backend/database engineering experience; expert Python; production experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL); Docker and distributed systems experience; C++, Go, or Rust advantageous.
Cassandra, AlloyDB, PostgreSQL, Python, Docker, C++, Go, Rust
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Principal Systems Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$258k-$275k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Foresite Labs
Foresite Labs: Incubating data-driven healthcare and life sciences companies.
15+ YOE15+ years software engineering; expert C/C++ on Linux; CUDA; GPU pipelines; distributed HPC; data pipeline design and reliability.
CUDA, Linux, Python, Perf, Nsight, ftrace
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Senior Engineer, Satellite Resource Optimization
Austin or San Diego
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
5+ YOESenior engineer with distributed systems, satellite networks experience; proficiency in Python/Go/C++; MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 5+ years of distributed systems or satellite networks; export-controlled information access eligibility.
Python, Go, C++
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Advanced Concepts Engineer
Arlington or Mount Laurel or San Diego or Fall River
$90k-$184k/yr HybridFull Time
Innovative Defense Technologies
Innovative Defense Technologies: A defense technology delivering mission-critical software and automated solutions to the U.S. government.
3+ YOEBachelor's in STEM or equivalent experience, 3-5+ years relevant experience, ability to obtain/maintain Secret clearance, experience with distributed systems, cloud deployment, Agentic AI/LLM, systems engineering, and ~10% travel.
Agentic AI, LLM, SysML, UML, C++, Python, MATLAB, DOORS, Agile
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Senior Engineer - Machine Learning
San Diego, California, United States
$141k-$211k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Qualcomm
QualcommNASDAQ: QCOM: Designs and manufactures semiconductors and wireless telecommunications products.
2+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems (or higher) with 2+ years relevant experience; strong Python and systems-language skills; experience with ML frameworks, model optimization, deployment, and distributed/GPU environments.
Python, C++, Rust, Go, PyTorch, TensorFlow, vLLM, ONNX, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, OpenSearch, Qdrant
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Principal Software Engineer, Cloud
San Diego, California, United States
$180k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
Brain Corp
Brain Corp: Develops AI software for commercial autonomous mobile robots.
12+ YOE12+ years in software engineering/cloud architecture; proven leadership; strong Go/Python; GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform/Pulumi; distributed systems; GenAI tooling.
Go, Python, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Pub/Sub, Kafka, Bazel
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Engineer III (Electrical Engineering) (San Diego, CA, US, 92108)
San Diego, California, United States
$98k-$138k/yr OnsiteFull Time
General Dynamics NASSCO
General Dynamics NASSCONYSE: GD: Designs and builds ships for naval and commercial markets.
4+ YOEElectrical Engineer for shipboard electrical systems; power gen/distribution, control systems, navigation electronics, CAD/simulation tools; 4+ years experience; PE license desirable.
CAD, Simulation tools
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Staff Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering & SDLC Governance
Carlsbad or Germantown
$165k-$261k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Viasat
ViasatNASDAQ: VSAT: Provider of global satellite-based connectivity and secure communication solutions.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience; proven SDLC governance and SRE/DevOps expertise; customer-first mindset; experience with complex full-stack and distributed systems; ability to drive organizational change.
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, AS9115
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Senior Staff Engineer, Agentic Databases
San Diego, California, United States
$183k-$274k/yr RemoteFull Time
Teradata
TeradataNew York Stock Exchange: TDC: Provides cloud data analytics and enterprise AI software platforms.
12+ YOEDeep Postgres internals and systems programming experience, C/C++ proficiency, 12+ years building distributed systems/databases, PoC leadership, familiarity with agentic/AI systems and integration (MCP, LangChain), strong communication.
Postgres, C, C++, Go, Python, Ruby, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Teradata Fabric, Teradata Context Engine, AgentStack
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Senior Electrical Engineer - water/wastewater (remote allowed)
United States or Honolulu or Wailuku or San Diego or Irvine or Los Angeles or San Francisco or San Jose or Rancho Cordova or Portland or Tacoma or Seattle or Las Vegas
$117k-$191k/yr HybridFull Time
Brown and Caldwell
Brown and Caldwell: Provides environmental engineering services for water and infrastructure systems.
10+ YOEProfessional engineer licensure, typically 10+ years electrical engineering experience in low/medium-voltage power distribution, motor control, power system studies (arc flash), NEC/NFPA 70E knowledge, Revit/BIM and AutoCAD P&ID experience, and mentorship/supervisory skills.
Revit, BIM, AutoCAD P&ID, SKM, ETAP, EasyPower
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Navigation Engineer (Simulation Software)
Mountain View or San Diego
$190k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Logos Space
Logos Space: Develops secure LEO satellite networks for enterprise connectivity.
5+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 5+ years building simulation or distributed systems software, proficiency in C++ and/or Python, Linux and Git experience, knowledge of orbital mechanics and network modeling.
C++, Python, Linux, Git, CCSDS, SDN
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Principal / Distinguished Engineer - Multi-Cloud Control Plane - Kubernetes
San Diego or Santa Clara or Kirkland
$255k-$445k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Provides a cloud platform for automating enterprise digital workflows.
12+ YOE12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems with expertise in Kubernetes, hyperscalers, Go, platform architecture, and technical leadership.
Kubernetes, Crossplane, GitOps, CNI, Go, EKS, AKS, GKE, SPIFFE/SPIRE, Kata Containers, OCI
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Colorado Springs or Fort Carson or Charleston or Denver or San Diego
$110k-$180k/yr OnsiteFull Time
The Marlin Alliance
The Marlin Alliance: Provides digital transformation and automation services to defense agencies.
U.S. citizen with active Top Secret clearance; strong Python and ML experience; experience with distributed systems, cloud-native development, containerization, GIS, and DevOps; able to work aboard Navy vessels.
Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, AWS Lambda, Dask, Spark, AWS S3, RDS, EFS, SNS, SQS, AirByte, Apache Airflow, dbt, Apache Iceberg, Snowflake, ArcGIS, PostGIS, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, Git, Java, C++, Go, Rust, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, AWS, Azure
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Staff Product Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$171k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
ResMed
ResMedNew York Stock Exchange: RMD: Developing cloud-connected medical devices for sleep and respiratory care.
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering; distributed cloud-native systems; backend Java/Spring Boot; event-driven; UX/system design; enterprise standards; AI tooling proficiency.
Java, Spring Boot, Event-driven architecture, AI coding tools (Claude Code, Augment Code, Copilot)
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Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Content Understanding
San Francisco or Atlanta or Austin or Boston or Chicago or Dallas or Denver or Houston or Jacksonville or Los Angeles or Miami or New York City or Phoenix or Portland or Sacramento or Salt Lake City or San Diego or Seattle or Washington, D.C. or Ottawa or Toronto or Vancouver or Mexico City
$120k-$228k/yr HybridFull Time
Scribd
Scribd: Subscription-based digital library for e-books, audiobooks, and documents.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering; Python 5+ years; distributed systems; AWS; Terraform; leadership; bachelor’s in CS.
Python, Scala, Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Terraform, AWS, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Datadog
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend FinPlatform
New York City or San Francisco or Salt Lake City or Los Angeles or Seattle or Austin or Washington or Philadelphia or San Diego or Chicago or Atlanta or Australia or Canada or South America
$146k-$215k/yr RemoteFull Time
Flex
Flex: A financial platform allowing renters to split monthly rent payments.
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, 4+ years with Java, experience with backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, AWS, and distributed teams.
Java, Spring, Gradle, JUnit, JVM, AWS, EKS, Aurora RDS, Elasticache, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, git, DataDog, Snowflake, CDK, Terraform
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Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform
San Diego, California, United States
$140k-$190k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Netradyne
Netradyne: Develops AI-powered vision technology for commercial fleet safety.
7+ YOE7+ years backend/software engineering experience; strong AWS, containerization, CI/CD, monitoring, distributed systems, event-driven and time-series data skills; proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript; bachelor’s in CS/Engineering; experience designing multi-tenant systems.
AWS, CI/CD, Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Temporal, WorkOS, Auth0, Clerk, Spark, PySpark
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