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

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase's Blockchain Platform, overseeing nodes, indexers, wallets, and asset lifecycle. Drive cross-team platform rearchitectures, enforce security and reliability standards, champion AI-driven automation, use observability to improve reliability, and represent the platform to executives to secure alignment and resources for large-scale blockchain infrastructure initiatives.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives; build and maintain AI-driven systems; mentor and raise the technical bar across teams; collaborate cross-functionally; ensure data security and HIPAA-compliant practices; operate in an AWS + Kubernetes environment while introducing new technologies as system load grows.

Define and drive Payments technical strategy and architecture for rails, routing, and funds-flow systems. Lead large cross-team initiatives, ensure financial correctness, improve reliability and cost via observability, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and regulatory teams.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Lead architecture and delivery of AI-native features for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Drive cross-functional technical initiatives, design scalable microservice systems, integrate LLMs and agent frameworks, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers to elevate technical execution.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

Lead design and development of high-performance endpoint agents in Go across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Build concurrent, performance-sensitive telemetry systems, integrate with backend REST APIs, use AI tools responsibly, mentor engineers, and collaborate on testing and DevOps to support threat-hunting at scale.

Lead and build a new Trust & Safety engineering domain: design and implement systems to detect and mitigate fraud, billing anomalies, and credential abuse. Architect product and operational solutions, mentor engineers, define processes, and deliver scalable, auditable safety tooling across internal and external workflows.

Lead design and operation of test infrastructure at scale: test orchestration, smart selection, parallel sharding, flaky-test detection, observability, SLOs, and on-call. Define technical strategy, drive cross-team projects, mentor engineers, and reduce test feedback time to accelerate engineering velocity.

Design, develop, and field high-performance Ground Control Station and C2 software using C++/Qt/QML and QGroundControl. Lead architecture and technical direction, mentor engineers, define APIs/ICDs, debug integration/latency issues, support field tests, implement post-mission debrief tools, and ensure interoperability with C2 standards.

Design, build, and operate reliable backend systems while mentoring engineers, participating in design discussions, and improving system performance.

Lead architecture and delivery for a product engineering team, design and build production-grade distributed and LLM/agent-based AI systems, mentor engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate with product and design to secure customers' environments.

As a Principal/Staff Software Engineer, you will design, implement, and lead embedded software for Optical DCI transport systems, ensuring performance and reliability.

Engineer end-to-end frontend and backend for an LLM-powered platform serving youth aging out of foster care. Design and optimize RAG systems, prompt engineering, embeddings, and agent interactions. Build accessible, Section 508-compliant interfaces and secure, federally compliant APIs. Ensure retrieval quality, safety, automated testing, CI/CD, and mentor teammates within a cross-functional, remote U.S.-based team.

Own and improve the end-to-end developer experience for AIMS ML teams: local/remote dev environments, build/test infrastructure, CI/CD, and internal platforms. Design, build, and operate large-scale build and CI systems, remove developer friction, instrument workflows, drive adoption, and set technical standards. Partner with ML researchers to prioritize productivity investments and evaluate/integrate GenAI-powered developer tooling with safety guardrails.

Own and scale the search, indexing, and data-scanning infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Optimize hybrid lexical and vector retrieval for sub-second latency, design cost-effective hot/warm/cold data tiering and massive asynchronous scans, drive down latency and cost, and provide technical leadership for resilient, highly available indexing and retrieval systems.

Lead and deliver secure, full-stack software for DoD customers through pair-programming, TDD, continuous delivery, and client-facing mentoring. Teach agile practices, build and test APIs, run software in Linux, use container and DevSecOps tooling, and champion AI-augmented workflows while ensuring week-over-week delivery and client success.

Lead technical direction and architecture for Android-native POS and handheld apps. Build offline-first, high-performance systems, mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability, modularize codebase, and enhance CI/CD and observability for production at scale.

Lead architecture and backend development for the vCluster platform by designing and implementing Kubernetes-native solutions in Go, owning features end-to-end, contributing to open-source, and solving deep systems challenges around multi-tenancy, isolation, and GPU infrastructure.

Lead technical direction and architecture for the Fable backend, own platform reliability (databases, CI/CD, queues, observability), run incident response and postmortems, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally with product/design/ML, and build platform capabilities enabling faster, safer delivery.

The Staff Software Engineer will enhance developer productivity by designing tools, automating workflows, and mentoring teams on best practices in developer experience.

The Staff Software Engineer - Platform will design and build core services for scalable data analytics, mentor teams, enhance platform reliability, and implement cloud-native solutions.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and operate high-integrity financial systems including ledgering, transaction processing, and money movement while ensuring system correctness and resilience.

The Staff Software Engineer will design and operate financial systems involving ledgering, transaction processing, decisioning, and money movement, ensuring correctness and reliability while mentoring engineers and improving system resilience.