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Staff Software Engineer / Technical Lead
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$250k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Tamarind Bio
Tamarind Bio: AI-powered platform for computational biology and drug discovery.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience; staff/principal/technical lead experience; strong software architecture, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS) experience; mentorship and technical leadership; onsite in San Francisco.
AWS, EC2, S3, DynamoDB, Docker, MLOps, DevOps
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Staff Software Engineer
Costa Mesa, California, United States
$220k-$330k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries: Defense technology building autonomous military hardware and software.
12+ YOE12+ years in software engineering; experience leading cross-team architectural initiatives; strong full-stack skills (JavaScript/TypeScript, React); U.S. person for export-controlled data.
JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Remix
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Staff Software Engineer, Audit (Full Stack)
San Francisco, California, United States
$210k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
Fieldguide
Fieldguide: AI-native platform for automating audit and advisory workflows.
5+ YOESenior staff software engineer with full-stack experience, AI tooling, and ability to lead complex, ambiguous projects; strong collaboration with product/design
TypeScript, React, GraphQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL
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Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences
San Francisco or United States
$217k-$303k/yr RemoteFull Time
Reddit
RedditNYSE: RDDT: Social platform for community-driven discussion and content sharing.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering; distributed systems; technical leadership; strong communication; lead cross-functional initiatives.
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Staff Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$190k-$210k/yr HybridFull Time
Art of Problem Solving
Art of Problem Solving: Provides advanced K-12 math curriculum and online learning platforms.
4+ YOE4+ years full-stack web development with Typescript, React, Next.js; strong JavaScript; startup experience; can lead and mentor; build consumer experiences; scale foundations.
Typescript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL
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Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack Software Discipline Lead)
San Diego or Melbourne or El Segundo or Palmdale or Manhattan Beach or Oklahoma City or Redondo Beach
$158k-$289k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Northrop Grumman
Northrop GrummanNYSE: NOC: Designs and manufactures advanced aerospace and defense systems.
9+ YOESTEM degree with 9+–14+ years software engineering experience (depending on degree), active U.S. Secret clearance (in-scope within 6 years) and eligibility for TS/SCI, subject-matter expertise in full stack/cloud/geospatial/interoperability/cybersecurity, and ~25% travel.
AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Docker, OCI, Kubernetes, Istio, Jenkins, GitLab, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Ansible, DTED, GeoTIFF, OGC, CesiumJS, Web-GL, PostGIS, Selenium, Cypress, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, HTTP, websockets, OMS, Universal Command and Control Interface (UCI), STANAG 4586, RMF, NIST 800-53
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Sr. Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack Software Discipline Lead)
Melbourne or Palmdale or San Diego or El Segundo or Redondo Beach or Manhattan Beach or Oklahoma City
$158k-$289k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Northrop Grumman
Northrop GrummanNYSE: NOC: Develops and manufactures advanced aerospace, defense, and space systems.
9+ YOERequires STEM degree plus extensive software engineering experience (Bachelor+14 / Master+12 / PhD+9), active U.S. Secret clearance (eligible for TS/SCI), expertise in cloud, containers, CI/CD, front- and back-end stacks, geospatial and cybersecurity competencies, and ~25% travel.
AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Docker, OCI, Kubernetes, Istio, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Ansible, CesiumJS, Web-GL, PostGIS, Selenium, Cypress, Java, Python, Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, HTTP, websockets, OMS, Universal Command Interface (UCI), RMF/NIST 800-53
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Internal Tools
Redwood City, California, United States
$241k-$331k/yr HybridFull Time
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Funds and builds technology to solve major societal challenges.
12+ YOE12+ years building production software, tech-leading small teams, full-stack engineering, cloud infrastructure/IaC, API integrations, LLMs/agents and retrieval/knowledge systems.
MCP, LLM, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), knowledge graphs, vector stores, RAG
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Senior Staff Software Engineer
California or United States
$115k-$260k/yr RemoteFull Time
GEICO
GEICO: Provides vehicle and property insurance services to consumers.
10+ YOEProvide technical leadership to design, build, and improve enterprise systems using .NET, Python, SQL/NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure; mentor engineers and lead technical roadmaps. 10+ years development and cloud experience preferred.
.NET, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP
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Staff Software Engineer
United States or Alabama or Arizona or Arkansas or California or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Hawaii or Idaho or Illinois or Indiana or Iowa or Kansas or Kentucky or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New Mexico or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oklahoma or Oregon or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Vermont or Virginia or Washington or Wisconsin
$178k-$223k/yr RemoteFull Time
Fuze Health
Fuze Health: Integrated digital health, home diagnostics, and virtual pharmacy platform.
8+ YOEBachelor's in CS or equivalent, 8+ years software engineering with 3+ years as tech lead/architect, expertise in Ruby on Rails or Python, PostgreSQL, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS; system design and healthcare compliance experience required.
Ruby on Rails, Python, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, ECS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, EHR
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Staff, Software Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$143k-$286k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Walmart
WalmartNYSE: WMT: Multinational retail operating discount stores and supermarkets.
4+ YOELead full software lifecycle, design scalable systems, mentor engineers, manage CI/CD, apply data-driven decisions and AI-first approaches; 4+ years experience (or 6 years without degree).
CI/CD, WCAG 2.2
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - Cloud (Technical Lead Manager)
San Diego or United States
$214k-$267k/yr HybridFull Time
Brain Corp
Brain Corp: Develops AI software for commercial autonomous mobile robots.
10+ YOE3+ Mgmt10+ years software engineering experience, 3+ years cloud architecture and 3+ years technical leadership; bachelor’s or master’s in CS or Software Engineering; proven GCP and ML systems experience.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Vertex AI, Cloud Storage, Go, Python, TypeScript, Pulumi, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kubeflow, TensorFlow Serving, Kafka
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Staff Software Engineer
Irvine, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
BD
BDNYSE: BDX: Manufactures medical devices, surgical instruments, and pharmacy automation systems.
7+ YOEBachelor's in CS/IS/engineering required (Master's preferred); 7+ years building large-scale healthcare software; 2-3 years running production on AWS; experience leading engineers; expertise in Go, Java, React/JavaScript, HL7/FHIR, RESTful APIs, cloud services and testing.
Go, Java, React, JavaScript, AWS, AWS Step Function, Airflow, HL7/FHIR, RESTful APIs
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Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform
San Francisco or Seattle
OnsiteFull Time
Stripe
Stripe: Provides online payment processing and financial infrastructure for businesses.
10+ YOE10+ years of software development; technical lead; production ML platform experience; cross-functional collaboration; autonomous; AI tooling experience.
AWS, SageMaker, Databricks, OpenAI, Python, Java, SQL, ML platforms
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Staff Software Engineer – Secondary Driving System
Sunnyvale or Sunnyvale
$219k-$335k/yr RemoteFull Time
General Motors
General MotorsNYSE: GM: Manufactures and sells automobiles and automotive parts globally.
8+ YOELead SDS software development; strong C++/ROS; 8+ years in robotics or real-time systems; experience in perception/prediction; leadership and collaboration across teams.
Modern C++, Python, ROS, TensorRT, ML tooling
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
San Francisco or New York City
$250k-$295k/yr HybridFull Time
Unify
Unify: AI-powered platform for automating B2B sales outbound workflows.
8+ YOE8+ years software-engineering experience, 3+ years leading projects or teams, deep PostgreSQL expertise, production-grade systems experience, strong mentoring and technical leadership skills.
PostgreSQL
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Staff Software Engineer
Oakland or United States
$208k/yr RemoteFull Time
Earnest
EarnestNASDAQ: NAVI: Provides student loan refinancing and personal lending services.
3+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related plus 3 years software development; 3 years with distributed microservices, PostgreSQL, Node.js/TypeScript, client frameworks; 2 years with AWS and leading large-scale projects; strong communication.
Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, React/Redux, React Native, Angular, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, Docker, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, FullStory, AWS, Jira
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Staff Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$143k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Exact Sciences
Exact SciencesNASDAQ: EXAS: Provides molecular diagnostic tests for early cancer detection.
12+ YOEBachelor's in CS/related or HS+12yrs experience; expert in object-oriented programming, RESTful services, relational DBs, cloud frameworks; mentor junior engineers and lead technical design.
RESTful web services, Postgres, SQL Server, JPA2, Hibernate, Entity Framework, Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, JIRA, Confluence, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Google Web Toolkit
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Staff Software Engineer
New York City or San Francisco or Seattle
$252k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Scale AI
Scale AI: Provides data and infrastructure for training artificial intelligence models.
7+ YOE7+ years engineering experience as tech lead/architect; experience with LLMs or vector databases preferred; proficient in Javascript/Typescript, SQL, Kubernetes, cloud providers; strong communication and critical thinking.
Javascript, Typescript, SQL, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, LLMs, vector databases
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Lead/Staff Software Engineer - AI Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Dynamo AI
Dynamo AI: A that provides infrastructure and evaluation frameworks to help enterprises deploy AI systems reliably, securely, and at scale.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience with 4+ years on large-scale distributed systems; deep Kubernetes and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) expertise; hands-on with Python, TypeScript, Go; proven technical leadership and customer-facing experience.
Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, TypeScript, Go
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