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

The Staff Software Engineer will build and maintain GoGuardian's Safety product suite, lead architectural decisions, mentor developers, and champion AI adoption in engineering workflows.

Lead iOS platform initiatives that improve developer productivity and AI-agent effectiveness across software development workflows. Build and enhance frameworks, tooling, libraries, build systems, CI, and testing infrastructure for Airbnb’s large-scale Swift codebase. Collaborate cross-functionally to identify inefficiencies, drive roadmap projects, support migrations, and improve AI-agent execution time, token efficiency, reliability, and quality.

Design and implement experiments deep within browser engine subsystems, including DOM, layout, rendering, accessibility, JavaScript runtimes, and networking. Investigate browser behavior, prototype capabilities for programmatic web interaction, measure performance and correctness, profile overhead, and document results. The role requires hands-on systems engineering, browser platform expertise, large-codebase development, and collaboration on AI-agent tooling.

Build and maintain large-scale healthcare data platform software using HL7/FHIR, Apache Spark, Python, Scala, Databricks, and cloud technologies. Shape technical roadmaps, architecture, and implementation approaches; collaborate with product and business stakeholders; maintain CI/CD and staging environments; and mentor junior engineers. The role requires deep healthcare data expertise, technical leadership, and experience with modern software engineering and integration practices.

Lead hands-on full-stack development of scalable product features, from database models through UI components. Set technical direction, architect and optimize systems, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, improve workflows, and champion testing, code quality, and continuous deployment. Collaborate with product and design teams, resolve technical bottlenecks, and lead production releases in a fast-paced startup environment.

Provides technical leadership for SingleStore Flow, a data migration and integration product. Designs and implements reliable distributed systems spanning CDC pipelines, migration engines, APIs, and cloud services. Leads architecture, complex technical initiatives, production troubleshooting, observability, testing, and operational improvements. Partners with product, support, customers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and advancing AI-assisted development and migration capabilities.

Lead the technical vision for test automation and quality architecture across cloud, web, and mobile systems. Design scalable testing frameworks, integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines, analyze quality metrics, mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and communicate outcomes to engineering leadership. The role emphasizes Playwright with TypeScript, Maestro with YAML, API and integration testing, system validation, and AI-first automation practices.

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of Pantheon’s data platform, extending ingestion, curation, retention services and ML/LLM infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive architecture and engineering standards, operate in a DevOps model, partner cross-functionally, and participate in on-call support to ensure reliable, compliant data access and analytics.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads technical direction for Everand’s backend platform, including architecture, reliability, observability, CI/CD, databases, queues, and scalable distributed systems. Partners with product, design, analytics, web, mobile, and ML teams to deliver personalized reading and listening experiences. Mentors engineers, drives architecture reviews and modernization efforts, improves technical quality, and owns platform health, performance, cost, and resilience.

Lead front-end architecture and cross-team technical initiatives for the NodeZero platform. Build scalable React and TypeScript systems, reusable components, developer tooling, and shared frameworks while improving performance, reliability, accessibility, observability, and CI/CD workflows. Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, guide technical strategy, reduce technical debt, and collaborate with Product, Design, Platform, Security, and engineering teams.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Build and productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

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.

Leads architecture and development of highly available, distributed backend systems supporting Airbnb’s AirCover insurance platform. Owns policy, coverage, enrollment, regional rules, experimentation, and scalable multi-region capabilities. Partners with product, data science, legal, and engineering teams; analyzes conversion data; ensures auditability, privacy, reliability, and data integrity; mentors engineers; and applies emerging technologies such as LLMs where beneficial.

Lead architecture and reliability for a high-scale alerting platform. Design rule-based, ML-driven, and correlated detection systems; own Kafka-based event delivery, webhook reliability, idempotency, and sustained-load performance. Transform security and network telemetry into topology and dependency models that support LLM-assisted investigation and remediation. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and guide long-term platform strategy across multiple alerting teams.

Design and build the core vCluster Platform using Go and deep Kubernetes expertise. Own backend features end to end, from technical design through release, while solving complex systems architecture challenges involving networking, storage, isolation, and resource sharing. Contribute to open-source projects and the Kubernetes community, operate autonomously in a high-growth startup, and help define scalable Kubernetes multi-tenancy solutions.

Staff Backend Engineer responsible for building data and machine learning systems that provide competitive travel-market intelligence. The role involves setting technical strategy, designing APIs and backend architecture, prototyping solutions, partnering with product and ML engineers, conducting design and code reviews, driving engineering best practices, and mentoring junior engineers.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting and delivering backend-focused member and care team experiences. The role partners with product and clinical teams, sets technical direction, builds scalable and secure systems, maintains high-quality tested code, mentors engineers, and guides architecture across the stack. Responsibilities include API design, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and thoughtful use of AI-assisted development tools.

Build and operate production agentic workflows, runtimes, orchestration systems, tool integrations, and AI platform infrastructure. Develop guardrails, observability, evaluation, secure access controls, event-driven architectures, and continuous delivery practices. Partner across Engineering to drive adoption, improve software delivery, and take systems from design through production operations. The role includes evaluating AI tooling, supporting agentic coding workflows, defining success metrics, and potentially participating in on-call duties.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable distributed systems, shipping high-impact features, and building AI-powered tools for a virtual healthcare platform. The role includes mentoring engineers, partnering with product and clinical leadership, translating user needs into technical solutions, and guiding frontend and backend application development in a fast-paced startup environment.

Owns end-to-end security engineering, including risk identification, secure-by-default libraries, least-privilege guardrails, developer machine hardening, supply-chain security, and identity and authentication protections. Partners with compliance to implement effective controls for healthcare requirements such as HIPAA and HITRUST. The role requires production software engineering and security expertise, with broad autonomy in a fully remote environment.

Own and build Hercules’ billing, payments, subscriptions, usage-based billing, monetization, and commerce infrastructure. Integrate payment providers, support currencies and payment methods, and design reliable, low-latency systems with webhook processing, retries, reconciliation, and scalable usage metering. The role requires strong system design, architecture, data modeling, API design, code quality, product judgment, and proficiency with Hercules’ TypeScript-based stack, including React, Postgres, Redis, containers, and Temporal.

Lead development of Hercules's AI-focused platform-as-a-service, including its database-like object model, backend services, APIs, SDKs, hosting infrastructure, and distributed systems. Build reliable, scalable, multi-tenant services with strong isolation, observability, resilience, low latency, and high throughput. Apply advanced Rust, data systems, architecture, API design, performance optimization, and AI-assisted development skills.