Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Design, build, and own scalable microservices and secure APIs that transfer value across blockchain and banking protocols. Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure, integrate with banks and cloud services, troubleshoot production issues, document system and testing procedures, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable payment experiences.

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.

Staff Software Engineer leading the architecture, development, and operation of Braze’s large-scale user segmentation systems. Responsibilities include building real-time data pipelines, APIs, and customer-facing dashboard capabilities; owning product direction and core system performance; mentoring engineers; driving technical initiatives; and improving reliability, cost, and scalability. The role involves close collaboration with product and engineering teams and supports systems processing billions of users daily.

Lead architecture and engineering for a new Provider Onboarding team. Build scalable, database-backed systems and custom tools supporting pricing, payments, client panels, and forms. Establish engineering practices, mentor senior engineers, guide cross-functional delivery, and oversee the full software development lifecycle from planning through post-launch maintenance. The role requires healthcare systems experience and ownership of complex, reliable products.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial APIs, map-matching and routing foundations, and reusable platform capabilities. Scale storage, querying, and computation for real-time features, consolidate team-specific solutions, mentor engineers, lead cross-team technical projects, and represent the company in the geospatial community.

Lead fraud decisioning engineering initiatives by architecting, building, launching, and maintaining complex backend systems. Drive cross-functional projects from definition through monitoring, write high-quality and resilient code, review technical work, mentor engineers, collaborate with Product, ML, Analytics, and Business teams, and contribute to hiring and interview design.

Lead architecture and hands-on delivery of production-critical software across Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Java, cloud, data, security, and manufacturing integrations. Build distributed and event-driven services, improve reliability and observability, guide CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and support edge-to-cloud computer-vision and machine-learning solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, align cross-functional teams, make architectural decisions, and evolve reusable platform capabilities across manufacturing sites.

Lead backend engineering for a video platform that uses generative AI to create cinematic real estate walkthroughs. Design scalable GraphQL services, data models, asynchronous video-generation pipelines, and reliable cloud infrastructure. Guide architecture, prototype emerging AI technologies, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics teams. The role requires strong Java, Python, Spring Boot, GraphQL, SQL, AWS, distributed systems, observability, and system design expertise.

Lead full-stack development for Huntress’s SOC platform, building analyst-facing investigation, triage, remediation, queueing, and customer reporting experiences. Shape architecture, data models, interfaces, security practices, reliability, observability, and testing while mentoring engineers and partnering with Product, UX, and SOC stakeholders. The role emphasizes Ruby on Rails, modern frontend development, cloud infrastructure, relational databases, and technical leadership across complex cybersecurity software products.

Lead the design and delivery of complex distributed systems and high-impact product initiatives for Toast’s Catering & Events platform. Own critical architecture, drive technical strategy, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, establish engineering best practices, and collaborate with Product and Design. The role also involves applying AI tools to improve developer productivity and enable new capabilities.

Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable payroll onboarding software. Drive technically complex initiatives, influence architecture and roadmaps, collaborate across product, design, and engineering, improve reliability, promote coding best practices, mentor engineers, and use AI tools to enhance development productivity.

Leads technical initiatives for Toast’s restaurant scheduling product, designing and delivering scalable full-stack software. Responsibilities include architecture, API and system design, roadmap influence, cross-functional collaboration, engineering quality, performance, and technical leadership. The role also promotes AI-assisted development and improved employee and customer experiences.

Leads modernization of a large-scale embedded software test system for software-defined vehicles. Defines architecture, roadmaps, automated headless testing, configuration and variation management, change-impact analysis, risk-based regression, standardized test-result data, APIs, diagnostics, and CI/CD integrations. The role drives engineering productivity, test reliability, deployment speed, failure triage, and cross-team technical direction across virtual and physical environments.

Lead modernization of General Motors’ embedded-software build infrastructure by migrating legacy Make and shell workflows to Bazel. Design reusable rules, toolchains, platforms, and repository standards; integrate build systems with CI/CD, testing, release, security, and artifact workflows; and improve reproducibility, performance, reliability, and developer productivity. The role also involves mentoring engineers, guiding strategy, measuring migration outcomes, and evaluating AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Leads enterprise engineering platforms for embedded software, simulation, and cloud workloads. Designs CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, progressive delivery, observability, security, and compliance architectures. Establishes branching, release, quality, and engineering standards across teams while improving productivity, release confidence, and product quality. Mentors DevOps and simulation developers and provides hands-on technical leadership for complex, safety-critical software environments.

Own the frontend architecture for realtor.com’s Authentication & Identity platform across React and Next.js surfaces. Lead auth convergence, shared libraries, Auth0 and GraphQL integrations, passkeys, OAuth/OIDC, token and session management, reliability, observability, and high-risk migrations. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, write architecture documentation, and govern AI-assisted development with strong security and maintainability standards.

Build and operate production network software for GM’s secure hybrid AV infrastructure. Responsibilities include developing Go and Python services, APIs, controllers, network automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD workflows, observability, and SRE capabilities. The role designs scalable GCP and on-premises connectivity, supports high-throughput data ingestion, improves security and reliability, participates in on-call and incident response, and provides technical leadership and mentorship.

Leads technical strategy and architecture for a scalable advertising platform supporting video, server-side advertising, connected TV, programmatic advertising, and new ad formats. Designs distributed systems, evaluates ad technologies, improves reliability and observability, partners across engineering and product teams, mentors engineers, and guides long-term technical investments and roadmaps.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for designing scalable distributed systems and full-stack web applications supporting provider acquisition, onboarding, and marketplace supply growth. The role leads cross-team technical initiatives, shapes engineering strategy, mentors developers, and delivers provider-facing products from discovery through post-launch support. Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and technologies such as Node.js, React, TypeScript, Kafka, AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes is valued.

Design and evolve scalable referral, partner data, and patient booking systems. Lead complex technical projects across teams, make architecture and API decisions, improve security, performance, reliability, and scalability, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product, design, engineering leadership, partners, and stakeholders while using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code to improve delivery velocity and quality.

Lead the design and delivery of complex backend systems, provide architecture guidance, develop scalable and reliable software, mentor engineers, prototype technologies, and collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams. The role involves evaluating technical trade-offs, applying software engineering best practices, and building cloud-based products and data platforms for real estate professionals and consumers.

Leads technical direction across multiple teams while designing and developing scalable full-stack applications for Avail’s renter platform. Responsibilities include architecture, hands-on software development, mentoring engineers, code reviews, testing, debugging production issues, evaluating technologies, improving engineering practices, contributing to roadmaps, and participating in recruitment and onboarding.

Lead architecture and delivery of complex backend systems, develop scalable and reliable software, mentor engineers, evaluate technologies, and collaborate with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams. The role requires system-wide technical influence, self-directed problem solving, software development best practices, cloud experience, data platform knowledge, and proficiency with Python-based technologies, React, Node.js, GraphQL, and databases.

Leads technical strategy and engineering for large-scale SEO, organic social sharing, and deep-linking platforms. Owns crawl, indexation, rendering, structured data, AppsFlyer attribution, reliability, SLOs, incident response, observability, regression testing, and cross-team technical influence. Writes production code, drives architecture and design reviews, mentors engineers, and partners with Organic Growth product leaders to improve search visibility and listing-sharing experiences.

Provides technical leadership for backend systems, designing scalable content ingestion pipelines, APIs, AI integrations, third-party services, and real-time notification systems. Establishes architecture, infrastructure, observability, and reliability standards while partnering with product managers, mentoring engineers, and guiding complex technical decisions.