Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Lead technical strategy for Solana staking at Coinbase, optimizing validator performance and driving cross-product integration while mentoring engineers.

Lead architecture and delivery of Control Center platform capabilities (MCP tool registries, AI orchestration, access automation). Design agentic AI integrations, HITL workflows, and evaluation/guardrail frameworks. Own backend services, SLOs, observability, incident response, and operational readiness for Tier-1 systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, author TDDs, run design reviews, mentor engineers, and partner with Product and Security to deliver secure, scalable platform primitives.

Design and implement AI systems for customer support and compliance, architect solutions, mentor team members, and manage project deliverables.

Lead the technical strategy for Coinbase's Data Platform, architecting data systems for AI/ML workloads and ensuring data reliability, performance, and cross-functional alignment.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase Payments, building high-availability, low-latency payment rails and funds-flow systems. Drive cross-team initiatives, enforce financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, auditability), improve reliability and cost efficiency using observability data, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and compliance to deliver scalable global payment solutions.

Develop and manage high-performance back-end systems, design secure APIs, optimize performance in cloud environments, conduct testing, and manage ML model lifecycles.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will lead major projects, drive architectural innovation, interface with customers for solutions, and mentor engineers. Experience in software engineering and a strong grasp of AI, cloud scale, and evolving technologies is essential.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance video capabilities, support live streaming and storage infrastructure, and collaborate on platform development. Responsibilities include coding, mentoring, and ensuring platform reliability for millions of users.

Design, build, deploy, and operate a high-concurrency, resilient configuration and publishing platform. Lead cross-team projects, set technical direction, improve engineering productivity, optimize performance, and maintain end-to-end ownership of distributed systems at scale.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and implement solutions for the Websites product, collaborate across teams, and innovate on a scalable web platform for restaurants.

Design and implement full‑stack, low‑latency web-based Ground Control Station and C2 systems (map-centric UIs, real-time telemetry, video streaming), lead architecture and APIs, mentor engineers, support field tests and mission deployments, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

The Senior Staff Software Engineer will architect Affirm's lakehouse analytics platform, lead data governance efforts, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to optimize data solutions using Snowflake and other big data tools.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect and develop high-performance cloud services, resolve infrastructure bottlenecks, ensure engineering best practices, and mentor junior members.

Lead cross-pod technical direction and system design for high-scale backend services, embed AI-native development practices, collaborate with product and design, mentor engineers, and drive ambiguous initiatives from design through production.

The Engineering Manager for Developer Productivity will lead a remote team to enhance developer productivity, focusing on AI integration, tooling evaluation, and team development while collaborating with cross-functional partners.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and develop operational code for satellite ground systems, troubleshoot issues, and support Agile Scrum projects.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy, ensure system availability, and develop backend systems at scale, collaborating across teams to drive capacity modeling and operational quality.

Develop ML/RL models and infrastructure for AV simulations, optimize training loops, and support project timelines in autonomous vehicle tech.

Design, build, and operate backend systems for prediction markets, including order management, trade matching, settlement, and market resolution. Architect distributed, low-latency systems with strict financial correctness, lead multi-quarter technical projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Risk to meet regulatory requirements.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Design, build, and launch reliability engineering projects to scale production services. Improve scalability, observability, secrets/configuration management, canary-based deployments, and deployment safety. Partner with teams, support critical services, participate in on-call rotations, and promote reliability best practices.

Lead design and delivery of major product areas across web and mobile. Build and improve React/React Native apps, design scalable systems and data models, optimize performance, mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

Build and operate Coinbase's LLM and agent platform: design the LLM gateway, agent runtime, knowledge bases, AI spend governance, observability/eval tooling, and ship production agents while partnering cross-functionally to ensure secure, cost-effective, and responsible generative AI at scale.

Lead design and implementation of developer tooling (SDKs, CLI, workflows), set API governance and technical standards, advocate developer experience across product teams, run community events and livestreams, and deliver high-impact cross-team SDK and platform initiatives to improve reliability, performance, and developer adoption.