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

As a Staff Software Engineer at Samsara, you will lead and develop a high performing team, champion company culture, and contribute to the development of IoT platform solutions.

Develop and lead implementation of mathematical optimization models for supply chain applications. Investigate heuristics and optimization techniques, translate real-world problems into software, and design comprehensive testing strategies. Build robust C++ software, automated functional, regression, and performance tests, and collaborate with agile teams. Apply AI and other tools to accelerate development while maintaining architectural consistency, security, and code quality. Review AI-generated code for correctness, integration risks, and edge cases.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile engineering teams, designing, developing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, translating requirements into scalable designs, leading architecture and code reviews, resolving delivery impediments, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product managers on roadmap planning and prioritization. The role requires expertise in backend development, cloud platforms, microservices, databases, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, and operational excellence.

Leads the design, development, and production integration of Generative AI solutions into distributed software systems. Evaluates AI models and tools, builds robust AI-enabled applications, leads design and code reviews, manages multiple sprint teams, mentors engineers, and partners with product, data science, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, measurable AI capabilities.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing, developing, testing, and maintaining complex distributed software systems. Leads architecture and code reviews, translates product requirements into scalable solutions, removes delivery impediments, collaborates with product managers and stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend development, cloud technologies, microservices, APIs, messaging, containerization, DevSecOps, observability, and technical strategy experience.

Design, develop, and maintain complex test automation frameworks, tools, libraries, and performance tests. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, establish coding standards, analyze test results, and drive automation strategies. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code, troubleshoot framework issues, and mentor junior testing engineers. The role also supports cloud, containerization, DevSecOps, API, UI, and performance testing initiatives.

Provides technical leadership across multiple agile teams, designing and developing complex distributed software systems. Responsibilities include coding, system design, code and design reviews, roadmap delivery, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring engineers, and driving technical strategy, quality, scalability, security, observability, and operational excellence. The role requires extensive software engineering experience, multi-team leadership, distributed systems expertise, and proficiency with modern programming languages, cloud platforms, microservices, containers, APIs, messaging, and DevSecOps.

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.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

Lead end-to-end engineering of an AI-driven biomanufacturing platform: design and deploy LLM-powered agents and RAG systems, build full-stack React/Node/MongoDB pipelines, harden AWS infrastructure for regulated (GxP/Part 11) production, and deploy/integrate with customer LIMS/ERP/QMS.

Leads the design, development, deployment, and support of scalable software systems. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, code reviews, performance optimization, API development, testing, cloud-native deployments, monitoring, incident response, and maintaining development standards. The role mentors engineers, collaborates cross-functionally with product and design teams, supports production systems through on-call rotation, and advances AI-driven engineering practices and modernization.

Provide hands-on technical leadership for reusable cyber ranges, virtual-machine images, network architectures, and infrastructure automation. Design standards and automation with Ansible and Packer; troubleshoot complex networks, Windows, Linux, VMware, Active Directory, security tooling, and ICS/OT environments. Lead cross-team technical decisions, improve testing and release practices, mentor engineers, delegate ownership, and develop scalable, secure, supportable range solutions.

Leads the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of scalable full-stack software systems. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, code reviews, API development, cloud-native deployment, testing, monitoring, performance optimization, production support, incident response, technical mentoring, and establishing development standards. The role collaborates cross-functionally, drives API-first and AI-enabled engineering practices, and participates in on-call support.

Establishes and operates CI/CD solutions and cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, OpenShift, and IBM Cloud. Responsibilities include IAM and security compliance, observability and centralized logging, Jenkins and Travis CI pipelines, Kubernetes and Helm administration, Rancher cluster management, cloud cost optimization, and Terraform-based infrastructure provisioning. The role is fully remote within the United States and requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience plus at least five years of progressively responsible experience.

Architect and scale cloud-based ML infrastructure supporting large-scale training, massive datasets, model development, and customer services. Own platform design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, reliability, cost optimization, and usability. Collaborate with data science, product, and operations teams, solve complex distributed-systems challenges, and mentor engineers while driving technical innovation.

Lead quality assurance for storage and filesystem features, designing test strategies, executing system, stress, regression, and cross-functional testing, and developing automation. Collaborate with developers, tools teams, and customer support to improve testability, reproduce issues, and debug defects. The role requires expertise in NFS, SMB, NAS filesystems, Linux, Windows, VMware, shell scripting, Python, packet capture, test infrastructure, and release management.

Lead development of Airbnb’s data catalog infrastructure, including metadata management, data discovery, quality, lineage, governance, privacy, access control, retention, and classification. Build scalable metadata integrations, onboarding tools, and metadata-driven policies across online, offline, machine learning, visualization, and third-party data systems. Collaborate with infrastructure and cross-functional teams to meet business and regulatory requirements.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will define technical strategy for Drive-Thru solutions, standardize Android practices, and ensure seamless integration between mobile clients and backend services while mentoring peers.

Drive the Continuous Integration team, ensuring build systems' reliability and scalability, and mentor CI engineers while improving developer productivity through automation and tooling.

Lead the design and evolution of infrastructure, platforms, and services that run machine learning workloads in production. Build scalable distributed systems, cloud-native applications, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and ML model-serving infrastructure on AWS. Drive architecture, performance, reliability, cost optimization, and GPU workload management while collaborating with ML scientists, data engineers, and product teams. Mentor engineers and lead complex technical initiatives across a globally distributed organization.

Lead design, development, and production deployment of ML and generative AI solutions at scale. Drive personalization, pricing, experimentation, agentic AI, and simulation modeling. Partner with engineering and product teams, mentor engineers, influence technical strategy, and measure business impact through data-driven experimentation.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead design and delivery of enhancements to a next-generation AI agent platform. Own large features and infrastructure, mentor engineers, set technical standards, drive cross-team initiatives, improve reliability and SLOs, and influence product and process decisions to scale systems supporting millions of interactions.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of the end-to-end video pipeline (live ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and developer SDKs). Mentor engineers, collaborate across mobile/web/ML/platform teams, own monitoring and on-call support, and help scale video streaming and VoD capabilities for millions of streams and clips.