Top Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Lead the architecture and evolution of Cloudflare’s global network infrastructure. Own capacity planning, hardware and platform strategies, routing and traffic engineering standards, multi-year infrastructure roadmaps, and network automation frameworks. Evaluate emerging technologies, optimize cost and reliability, guide major architectural transitions, and collaborate with engineering, procurement, finance, and operations teams. Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions across the organization.

Lead the technical vision, architecture, and delivery of Toast’s pricing engine across multiple teams. Design and operate highly available distributed systems, APIs, databases, and event-driven services at scale. Serve as the pricing domain expert, improve correctness and performance, lead incident response and reliability initiatives, mentor engineers, establish operational excellence, and align technical priorities with Product and engineering leadership.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s search and recommendation platform. Design and launch highly available distributed systems, guide technical architecture and execution, improve team operations and reliability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate with product, design, and analytics, and mentor engineers. The role focuses on search, recommendations, consumer shopping experiences, monetization, and scalable platform foundations.

Lead backend engineering strategy for Affirm’s international Identity team. Design and launch highly available distributed systems supporting KYC, user lifecycle management, and identity decisioning. Drive technical planning, cross-functional collaboration, operational excellence, monitoring, testing, and on-call readiness. Establish engineering quality standards, influence architecture, mentor team members, and deliver scalable systems using Python or Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.

Lead technical strategy and execution for foundational Trust and Safety systems supporting consumer risk and credit reporting. Design and operate highly available backend systems, improve reliability and monitoring, establish engineering standards, guide complex cross-functional initiatives, and mentor engineers. The role involves ownership of system architecture, technical planning, operational readiness, code quality, and team development.

Provides technical leadership for full-stack platform development, including architecture, scalable service design, machine learning integrations, code quality, production monitoring, modernization, and cross-functional delivery. The role mentors engineers, leads major projects, and develops secure, maintainable systems using Python, ReactJS, databases, microservices, and GCP.

Lead the technical vision and architectural evolution of Huntress’s Core Platform. Build complex Ruby on Rails features, solve scaling challenges, manage cross-team dependencies, drive architectural decisions, and oversee system lifecycle and technical risk. Mentor engineers, establish engineering excellence, collaborate with managers and product leaders, and help teams adopt AI coding tools responsibly.

Design, develop, and architect scalable Golang software supporting enterprise data architecture. Lead technical design, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, solve complex technical problems, and contribute to Agile delivery practices. Ensure software quality through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and operational support while shaping technical roadmaps and architectural direction.

Design and implement scalable, secure, high-performance software systems and public-facing APIs. Lead system design, apply agentic coding workflows, collaborate with Product and Data Science, mentor engineers, and own initiatives improving efficiency, performance, and customer satisfaction. The role requires extensive experience with highly available distributed systems, API versioning and rate limiting, modern backend and frontend technologies, AWS, and Domain-Driven Design.

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 software engineering for the Patient Onboarding team, building and improving registration, insurance verification, and care-access workflows. Write full-stack production code, lead complex cross-team initiatives, shape technical direction, improve engineering foundations, and support modern AI-enabled development practices. Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and Engineering to improve patient conversion and system reliability.

Designs, builds, and scales backend services and integrations for payments, billing, identity, and partner connectivity. Sets technical vision and architecture for distributed systems, leads cross-team delivery, manages production rollouts, builds fault-tolerant services and data pipelines, and mentors engineers. The role partners with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver frequent, reliable improvements for Flex’s rent payment platform.

Build and own full-stack MarTech services, scalable APIs, event-driven systems, data pipelines, and customer-facing web experiences. Integrate advertising, analytics, messaging, and marketing platforms while supporting attribution, identity resolution, experimentation, acquisition, and retention. Collaborate cross-functionally with marketing, product, data, design, and engineering teams to launch measurable growth initiatives. Mentor engineers and establish technical best practices across high-scale marketing infrastructure.

Lead architecture, design, and implementation of scalable MyAccount web and platform capabilities. Drive technical strategy across teams, develop applications and APIs, improve reliability, performance, observability, and security, and ensure robust automated testing. Mentor engineers, influence architectural decisions, connect technical initiatives to business goals, and maintain operational ownership of customer-facing systems.

Designs and maintains automated testing frameworks and test cases to improve product quality, coverage, reliability, and efficiency. Identifies quality gaps and risks, conducts software and process testing, analyzes performance metrics, investigates defects, and implements corrective actions. Collaborates with product, development, and operations teams on process improvements, reviews code and workflows for standards compliance, and provides guidance to junior team members. This is an in-office role based in Austin, Texas, or Madison, Wisconsin.

Design and scale a feature flagging and A/B testing platform, including high-throughput event ingestion, warehouse-native analytics, real-time feature flag delivery, multi-database SQL support, and distributed systems infrastructure. The role involves full-stack development, architecture, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and technical product influence within a remote startup team.

Own and extend Airbnb’s Minerva semantic layer and data-authoring platform. Build core services, including query rewriting, and deliver reliable systems that help internal users define and consume business metrics. Scope ambiguous, cross-team initiatives, partner with users and product teams, evaluate data and database technologies, and manage design, implementation, testing, deployment, and on-call responsibilities.

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.

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.