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

Designs and develops IAM and security software, automation, APIs, and microservices. Integrates security into cloud and CI/CD environments, conducts code reviews and threat modeling, monitors security events, supports incident response, and advises teams on identity architecture and best practices. Requires extensive IAM administration, programming, cloud, containerization, and secure-coding experience.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting retirement money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, compliance integrations, payroll, and financial workflows. The role involves shipping reliable production code, debugging incidents, improving observability, partnering with product, compliance, and operations, and mentoring engineers. Candidates should have extensive software engineering experience, financial systems expertise, end-to-end ownership, and Ruby on Rails or comparable backend framework experience.

Own the technical strategy and architecture for Vanta’s government product line. Design and build scalable compliance capabilities for federal, state, local, and education customers; establish reusable platform patterns; lead multi-quarter initiatives; collaborate with design partners and cross-functional teams; and mentor engineers while raising technical quality and engineering practices.

Lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of an internal agent platform, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and workflow automation. Build reliable, governed agents and tools, establish adoption practices and success metrics, partner cross-functionally, contribute feedback to Temporal products and open-source architecture, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call operations.

Set the multi-year technical direction for the Builder Platform, leading agent platforms, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Establish governance, architecture, standards, metrics, and adoption strategies across the company. Partner with engineering and business leaders to prioritize AI opportunities, improve developer productivity, guide customer-zero feedback into products and open-source frameworks, mentor technical leaders, and reduce operational burden through systemic improvements.

Own and evolve the architecture of Agiloft’s AWS-based cloud services and infrastructure. Lead scalable, secure, reliable, and observable distributed-system design; define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns; and drive modernization, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Partner with CloudOps and engineering leadership on reliability, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, improve developer experience, and guide long-term platform evolution.

Lead architecture and hands-on delivery of an event-driven platform integration layer. Define event, API, identity, data, schema, connectivity, and tenant-boundary contracts; ship production use cases; build reusable client libraries and onboarding processes; establish engineering standards; guide technical direction across teams; and own production operations through SLOs, observability, on-call, incident response, and mentoring.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading design reviews and sprint delivery, mentoring engineers, collaborating with product managers, and driving technical strategy, quality, security, performance, observability, and operational excellence.

Leads and grows an engineering team responsible for customer-facing web, mobile, and backend products. Owns delivery, technical direction, architecture, reliability, hiring, coaching, and career development. Partners with Product and Design to prioritize work and deliver dependable releases. Establishes AI-assisted engineering practices, supports AI-powered customer experiences, and builds systems for scheduling, payments, client management, notifications, and integrations.

Lead development of scalable backend services and platform infrastructure for an AI agent platform. Responsibilities include architecture and code reviews, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, reliability, distributed systems, ML/NLP workload support, and mentoring engineers. The role requires expertise in Java, Python, cloud environments, Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring tools, and data infrastructure.

Lead the technical direction, design, development, and operation of Airbnb’s large-scale Observability platform. Build distributed systems for metrics, logs, traces, querying, anomaly detection, and telemetry cost management. Scale high-throughput pipelines, improve reliability and performance, guide build-versus-buy decisions, mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help teams self-serve production debugging while collaborating across infrastructure and product teams.

Co-own the architecture and long-term health of a Laravel platform, including its database, APIs, background jobs, integrations, CI/CD, observability, and security. Lead scaling initiatives, modernization decisions, reliability improvements, and agent-ready engineering practices. Set technical direction, review designs and code, mentor engineers, collaborate with product teams, and help prepare systems for growth and SOC 2 compliance.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Build and own AI-enabled developer experience infrastructure, including agent orchestration, coding-agent runtimes, cloud development environments, CI/CD and build systems, developer portals, and automated compliance guardrails. Make architectural decisions, write production code, lead large platform initiatives, mentor engineers, own major platform components, and partner with engineering leadership on multi-quarter delivery strategy.

Lead the technical direction of Carrum Health’s billing and payments platform. Centralize pricing, define billing service boundaries and data models, and build reliable systems for invoicing, provider payments, and financial reporting. Partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Data on cross-team initiatives, write architectural documentation, mentor engineers, and ensure financial correctness, observability, auditability, and safe rollbacks. Work primarily with Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Docker, and AWS in a remote-first startup environment.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Lead the Firewall pod by designing and building secure, reliable WAF integrations, policy assessment workflows, remediation guidance, and safe configuration-change automation. Own technical direction from problem framing through production operation, including correctness, authorization, auditability, observability, retries, rollback, and failure handling. Contribute code, shape architecture, conduct reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, AI research, Engineering, and security teams to deliver customer outcomes.

Provide technical leadership for platform engineering across shared systems supporting 250+ engineers and AI practitioners. Define platform architecture and standards, build developer productivity capabilities, lead cross-functional initiatives, and advance Azure cloud-native, DevSecOps, infrastructure automation, observability, security, reliability, and software delivery practices. Mentor senior engineers and guide technical decisions that improve engineering velocity and resilience.

Lead technical strategy and execution for build, test, release, and deployment systems. Drive initiatives to improve developer productivity, deployment safety, and platform reliability. Coordinate cross-team projects and migrations, contribute high-impact code, coach engineers, and lead incident response and resilience improvements for shared engineering systems.

Lead platform and infrastructure architecture for scalable AI workloads. Design resilient distributed systems, foundational platform services, and cloud environments; solve complex infrastructure challenges; mentor junior engineers; and collaborate with product, research, and security teams to improve reliability, performance, developer experience, and operational efficiency.

Build and own backend services and APIs supporting money movement, payments, settlements, reconciliation, payroll integrations, retirement workflows, and financial compliance. Ship reliable production code, debug incidents, improve observability and operational tooling, and collaborate with product, compliance, operations, and engineering teams. Mentor engineers and ensure systems handling customer funds are correct, scalable, and well tested.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.