Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Design and build MoonPay’s unified identity and KYC platform across products, partners, and regulated jurisdictions. Responsibilities include defining architecture and technical strategy, modeling identity lifecycles, building secure APIs and SDKs, integrating verification providers, protecting sensitive data, and establishing consent, authorization, auditability, observability, versioning, and failure-handling practices. The role requires hands-on engineering, cross-functional influence, and leadership through ambiguity.

Set technical strategy for Boulevard’s external developer platform and app ecosystem. Lead cross-team API platform initiatives, architecture decisions, integrations, security, identity, audit trails, eventing, observability, and reliability improvements. Write and ship high-impact code, mentor engineers, align stakeholders without formal authority, translate partner needs into roadmap proposals, and guide platform incidents through resolution and improvement.

Lead Airbnb’s enterprise-wide Site Reliability Engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and incident management practices. Design reliable, highly available infrastructure and platforms; establish production-readiness standards; automate operational processes; reduce toil; and proactively mitigate failures. Partner with engineering leaders on large-scale distributed systems, mentor SREs, influence technical direction across teams, and promote blameless learning and a proactive reliability culture.

Lead the technical direction, architecture, and development of Compass, an LLM-powered agent platform. Design multi-agent systems, MCP and A2A integrations, orchestration, evaluation, and observability infrastructure. Drive cross-team technical projects, production support, engineering quality, mentoring, and adoption of AI-assisted development practices. Partner with Product, QA, Design, Operations, and Engineering stakeholders to deliver reliable agentic systems.

Leads architecture and technical direction for a high-traffic Next.js and React web platform. Responsibilities include improving Core Web Vitals, technical SEO, rendering, caching, APIs, CMS capabilities, experimentation, analytics, testing, deployment, production reliability, and developer mentorship. The role also architects AI-powered web features, establishes responsible AI standards, and partners with product, marketing, SEO, and engineering teams.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical strategy and building infrastructure for vulnerability remediation across Anaconda’s package distribution platform. The role includes architecting build, test, scanning, signing, SBOM, and release systems; remediating complex CVEs; improving reliability, observability, access controls, and automation; defining security SLAs; partnering with open-source maintainers; and leading cross-team technical initiatives.

Designs, implements, integrates, tests, and debugs software for an integrated air and missile defense system. Decomposes roadmap features, participates in architecture discussions, conducts peer reviews, and collaborates with cross-functional teams and international stakeholders in an Agile environment. The role supports technology refresh, foundational cybersecurity enhancements, cloud-native and microservices architectures, automated testing, and continuous integration.

Lead end-to-end development of reliable care-agent tooling and software services integrating contact-center platforms with backend systems. Own architecture, performance, security, production operations, and technical direction while partnering with product, care operations, QA, and engineering teams. Translate operational workflows into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and improve tools using agent feedback, operational metrics, and AI-assisted development practices.

Lead technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Cards backend engineering organization. Architect scalable and reliable platforms, guide cross-team initiatives, champion AI adoption and engineering excellence, influence technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers through Staff level. The role requires strong architectural expertise, organizational leadership, project management, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Design and implement experiments in browser engine subsystems, investigate DOM, layout, rendering, navigation, events, and execution behavior, and evaluate performance, correctness, and compatibility. Prototype new engine capabilities, instrument and profile browser behavior, develop repeatable tests, document results, and optimize validated improvements. Collaborate with technical leadership while using AI coding and analysis tools and verifying outputs through debugging, testing, and measurement.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Design and lead secure secrets management and credential injection systems for Docker’s sandboxed agentic platform. Build scalable cloud and runtime infrastructure, resolve security and reliability issues across macOS, Windows, and Linux, guide architecture, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and engage with open-source sandboxing and agentic development communities.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Staff Software Engineer for the Job Seeker Apps team, building user-facing interfaces, backend systems, proactive communications, and AI assistant integrations. Responsibilities include end-to-end systems engineering, collaboration with Product and Decision Science, technical leadership and mentorship, impact measurement, and architecting safe, scalable agentic integrations. The role requires extensive software development experience and may involve ReactJS, TypeScript, data lake technologies, and distributed data processing frameworks.

Lead the technical evolution of Kilo Code, a large-scale VS Code AI coding extension. Responsibilities include setting architecture and performance direction, building advanced AI-assisted workflows, optimizing startup time and memory usage, driving cross-team initiatives, mentoring engineers, owning production delivery, and establishing engineering standards for context optimization and LLM workflows. The role partners with Product and Design to shape roadmaps and requires hands-on technical leadership across a mature codebase serving millions of users.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll design experiments, build predictive models, and lead a team while shaping data-driven strategies to enhance AI deployments.

Lead the design and development of scalable .NET services and APIs for a real-time trading platform. Own systems through production, contribute to architecture and observability, support incident response, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team technical initiatives. Collaborate with product and design while occasionally contributing to React and TypeScript frontend development. Build reliable, high-throughput distributed systems and improve engineering standards, tooling, testing, and operational excellence.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead the design and delivery of production AI capabilities that coordinate workflows, retrieve information, invoke authorized tools, and connect directly to application state. Partner with Product, Design, engineers, customers, and domain experts to define workflows, evaluate quality, manage dependencies, improve reusable orchestration foundations, and ensure reliability, observability, secure rollout, and measurable customer outcomes.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Lead the design and implementation of Aalyria’s security platform, including identity, authentication, authorization, PKI, workload identity, secrets, key management, audit evidence, and security standards. Build systems that operate securely in commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Set technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, threat-model distributed systems, and operate production services through upgrades, maintenance, and incidents.

Develop and maintain software integrations connecting Cribl’s stream processing engine with systems such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and cloud storage platforms. Research third-party technologies, build robust Node.js and TypeScript code, create automated and integration tests, and collaborate with engineering, product, design, and business teams. Participate in code reviews, documentation, customer support, and a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable backend and platform software for a Real World Evidence engine. Build secure data integrations and pipelines, improve data curation and quality, and support analytical workflows involving sensitive health data. Partner with product, clinical, research, and data teams to translate requirements into technical strategy. Lead architecture and code reviews, evaluate technologies, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and engineering best practices.