Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines; integrate AI-powered infrastructure; implement and support complex computing algorithms and distributed services; own systems end-to-end including architecture, observability, reliability, and operational support; lead architectural initiatives and reduce system complexity while maintaining performance on large-scale real-time data.

Lead design and evolution of customer-facing digital commerce systems (checkout, billing, payments, subscriptions, catalog, cart, orders). Use AI-assisted workflows to accelerate coding, review, testing, and documentation while ensuring security and production readiness. Drive architecture and API decisions across modern web apps, improve engineering excellence (testing, automation, observability, DevOps), build reusable patterns, and coach engineers to raise team productivity and technical delivery.

Lead design and implementation of Kubernetes-based cloud platform capabilities across Azure and GCP. Build operators, reusable abstractions, platform tooling, and improve monitoring, observability, deployment patterns, reliability, and developer experience. Drive architecture, on-call/incident response, cross-team technical influence, and mentor engineers.

Develop and support Ambiq's Trusted Execution Environment and related security implementations for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with security standards and seamless integration with customer builds.

Lead design and architecture of scalable full-stack systems for Avail renter technology. Drive technical direction, mentor engineers, ensure code quality, reliability, and security, collaborate with Product and Design, evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot production issues, and participate in hiring and onboarding.

Lead DevOps and platform engineering for VCU/CCU infotainment systems. Define CI/CD architecture, optimize Yocto embedded builds, implement distributed build systems, automate releases, build self-service developer platforms, improve observability and developer workflows, apply AI/ML for predictive build/test optimization, and mentor engineers while driving cross-functional delivery from design to production.

Senior individual contributor responsible for architecture, design, implementation, testing, and optimization of software for robotics and autonomous systems. Drive cross-functional technical direction, deliver high-performance C++/Python code, ensure reliability, scalability, and production readiness across perception, controls, and embedded platforms.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of scalable applications using React and NodeJS, optimize development processes, and manage projects within an Agile framework.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of a billing platform, drive architecture, mentor engineers, and migrate services to Azure, using modern frameworks and event-driven architectures, while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Senior individual-contributor owning architecture and technical direction for cross-platform, cross-language SDKs. Split time between hands-on coding and setting standards for API design, versioning, performance, reliability, and AI-assisted tooling. Mentor peers, drive consistency across Unreal/Unity/C++/Go/JavaScript SDKs, and partner with managers and studios.

Lead technical design and end-to-end delivery of full-stack, scalable features; mentor engineers; integrate ML/data-science where useful; own production monitoring, performance, and refactoring; collaborate cross-functionally.

Lead and deliver end-to-end software features, refactor legacy code, architect scalable and secure systems, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure high-quality user-focused code and designs.

Lead cross-functional engineering efforts to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure features. Own projects end-to-end, refactor legacy code, mentor engineers, write technical designs, and collaborate with product partners to deliver high-quality user-focused software.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for backend marketplace/search systems. Collaborate with PM, design, and analytics; own operational reliability, monitoring, on-call, testing, and runbooks; set code/design standards; drive major feature delivery and deprecations; mentor and develop engineering talent.

Lead technical direction for GM's MBFF platform and core microservices. Design scalable APIs and integrations (REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, event-driven), drive DevOps/CI-CD and observability standards, champion AI-enabled operational tooling, guide architecture and production readiness, mentor senior engineers, and align platform strategy with product, security, and SRE teams.

Lead architecture, design, and delivery of high-throughput, low-latency distributed services. Drive performance optimizations, incident RCA, system design reviews, and adoption of AI/LLM tooling. Provide cross-team technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product to manage roadmaps and delivery risks.

Design, implement, and optimize high-performance backend systems in Rust for an xOT security platform. Participate across the development lifecycle—debugging, testing, and performance tuning—while integrating relational and NoSQL data stores, microservices, third-party devices, and AI tools. Provide technical leadership, code review feedback, and promote secure, reliable, observable distributed systems.

Serve as the technical IC leader for the Provider organization: set technical roadmap and engineering standards, design and review architectures, drive cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, and deliver high-throughput, low-latency, cloud-based microservice systems for provider-focused products.

Lead design and delivery of complex web and mobile product areas, build and maintain React/React Native applications, architect scalable systems and APIs, optimize databases and performance, drive engineering standards and test coverage, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership and stakeholders in a fully remote environment.

Senior individual contributor responsible for technical direction, architecture, and implementation of the MyAccount web platform. Lead design of scalable web applications and APIs using Next.js/React/TypeScript, improve reliability/observability, own deployments and operational stability, remediate security and quality issues, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team architectural alignment and engineering strategy.

Lead development of whole-body and learning-based robot control systems, translating state-of-the-art model-based and RL methods from simulation to hardware. Improve control architecture, performance, safety, and deploy production-grade controllers while mentoring engineers and coordinating cross-functional teams.

The Staff Software Engineer will design, develop, and optimize large-scale cloud software systems, focusing on user-centric solutions and performance. Responsibilities include system architecture, hands-on coding, and cross-functional collaboration, leveraging modern software practices and technologies.

Lead technical strategy and delivery for mobile app infrastructure, owning shared components (design system, networking, CI/CD, observability, releases, tooling). Collaborate cross-functionally, set code/design standards, ensure operational readiness and on-call processes, mentor engineers, and drive large, business-impacting projects and migrations across the JS↔native boundary.

Lead design, build, and deploy scalable, reliable Java-based microservices in a cloud-native, event-driven AWS environment. Own backend feature design, code quality, automated testing, and FedRAMP release processes. Mentor engineers, participate in on-call/TechOps, integrate AI tools into development, and drive architecture, observability, and cross-team initiatives.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.