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.

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.

Design and build complex customer-facing product features, own technical decisions, contribute to architecture and technical direction, uphold code quality, mentor engineers, and support production incidents. The role collaborates closely with Product and Design across a modern web stack including React, TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, relational databases, and Microsoft Azure.

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.

Build and ship Looma Marketplace features end-to-end in a small, ambiguous product environment. Develop backend-first Go services across GCP, Postgres, Redis, and BigQuery while contributing to Angular. Improve scalability through asynchronous workflows, queues, concurrency, caching, service boundaries, testing, CI/CD, observability, and performance tooling. Own integrations, data pipelines, infrastructure, and internal tools, while raising engineering quality and applying AI-assisted development with strong verification practices.

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.

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.

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 technical design and implementation of the ISPM product using Ruby on Rails. Build scalable data pipelines and systems to process large-scale identity telemetry, collaborate with security researchers and product teams, mentor engineers, and set architectural direction for detection and remediation features.

Build and lead development of the ESPM platform using Ruby on Rails. Define technical vision, design scalable data pipelines and architectures for petabyte-scale ingestion, implement features across the stack, collaborate with security researchers, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality, tested deliveries.

Design, build, and operate low-latency authentication and authorization services (OAuth, sessions, tokens, 2FA, account recovery). Lead technical designs, ensure strong security and observability, collaborate cross-functionally, simplify integrations, and mentor engineers while running production services with measurable SLOs.

Leads the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and support of scalable web applications. Responsibilities include coding, debugging, code reviews, API-first development, performance optimization, testing, cloud-native deployments, database and caching strategy, production monitoring, incident response, mentoring engineers, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, customers, and vendors.

Lead design and implementation of Headway's insurance systems (eligibility, pricing, matching, claims). Build data-intensive, ML-powered platforms and automation, mentor engineers, write high-impact code, and improve accuracy and reliability across state and payer complexity to scale insurance-covered therapy.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, architecture, complex feature design, implementation, scalability, and greenfield development. The role mentors engineers, leads design and code reviews, drives technical alignment, addresses technical debt, participates in hiring, and remains a hands-on contributor to full-stack enterprise software development using technologies such as PHP, Laravel, Vue.js, and MySQL.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Affirm Bank's cloud, data, vendor integrations, and operational tooling. Design, build, and operate high-stakes systems end-to-end, own incident response, vendor selection, and the Bank↔Affirm Inc integration boundary. Ensure examiner-ready documentation, compliance, reliability, and observability while mentoring engineers and pushing AI-assisted engineering practices to increase velocity and product safety.