Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

Design and implement experiments in browser engine subsystems, investigate DOM, layout, rendering, navigation, events, and execution behavior, and evaluate performance, correctness, and compatibility. Prototype new engine capabilities, instrument and profile browser behavior, develop repeatable tests, document results, and optimize validated improvements. Collaborate with technical leadership while using AI coding and analysis tools and verifying outputs through debugging, testing, and measurement.

Lead technical execution and architecture for the Loyalty product. Own roadmap, design distributed services and APIs, ensure reliability/observability, integrate with ZMP and AthenaOS, build and coach engineering teams, and drive cross-team delivery of scalable multi-tenant loyalty capabilities.

Design and lead secure secrets management and credential injection systems for Docker’s sandboxed agentic platform. Build scalable cloud and runtime infrastructure, resolve security and reliability issues across macOS, Windows, and Linux, guide architecture, mentor engineers, participate in on-call rotations, and engage with open-source sandboxing and agentic development communities.

Set technical direction for Toast’s Developer Experience platform, including local development, build tooling, shared libraries, testing frameworks, and developer portals. The role combines hands-on software engineering with architecture, cross-team technical leadership, AI-assisted development, developer productivity measurement, mentorship, and roadmap prioritization.

Staff Software Engineer for the Job Seeker Apps team, building user-facing interfaces, backend systems, proactive communications, and AI assistant integrations. Responsibilities include end-to-end systems engineering, collaboration with Product and Decision Science, technical leadership and mentorship, impact measurement, and architecting safe, scalable agentic integrations. The role requires extensive software development experience and may involve ReactJS, TypeScript, data lake technologies, and distributed data processing frameworks.

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.

As a Lead Data Scientist, you'll design experiments, build predictive models, and lead a team while shaping data-driven strategies to enhance AI deployments.

Lead the design and development of scalable .NET services and APIs for a real-time trading platform. Own systems through production, contribute to architecture and observability, support incident response, mentor engineers, and drive cross-team technical initiatives. Collaborate with product and design while occasionally contributing to React and TypeScript frontend development. Build reliable, high-throughput distributed systems and improve engineering standards, tooling, testing, and operational excellence.

Provides technical leadership for scalable Kubernetes-based infrastructure across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Architects control plane services, tenancy models, deployment pipelines, observability, and reliability capabilities. Drives modernization through GitOps, policy-as-code, networking, autoscaling, CI/CD, and container lifecycle practices. Collaborates with SRE, platform, and application teams, mentors engineers, influences technical roadmaps, participates in on-call rotations, and improves infrastructure performance, resilience, and developer experience.

Leads the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s static analysis engine and evaluation tooling. Owns program modeling, vulnerability detection quality, SAST rules, AI-assisted development guardrails, and benchmark validation. Sets technical direction, mentors engineers, coordinates complex initiatives, contributes to research and open source, and participates in on-call rotations. The role requires deep program analysis, application security, systems programming, performance optimization, containerized CI/CD, and experience building trustworthy LLM tooling.

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 the design and delivery of production AI capabilities that coordinate workflows, retrieve information, invoke authorized tools, and connect directly to application state. Partner with Product, Design, engineers, customers, and domain experts to define workflows, evaluate quality, manage dependencies, improve reusable orchestration foundations, and ensure reliability, observability, secure rollout, and measurable customer outcomes.

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 the design and implementation of Aalyria’s security platform, including identity, authentication, authorization, PKI, workload identity, secrets, key management, audit evidence, and security standards. Build systems that operate securely in commercial, government, classified, and disconnected environments. Set technical direction across teams, mentor engineers, threat-model distributed systems, and operate production services through upgrades, maintenance, and incidents.

Develop and maintain software integrations connecting Cribl’s stream processing engine with systems such as Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kafka, and cloud storage platforms. Research third-party technologies, build robust Node.js and TypeScript code, create automated and integration tests, and collaborate with engineering, product, design, and business teams. Participate in code reviews, documentation, customer support, and a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Lead the design, development, and operation of scalable backend and platform software for a Real World Evidence engine. Build secure data integrations and pipelines, improve data curation and quality, and support analytical workflows involving sensitive health data. Partner with product, clinical, research, and data teams to translate requirements into technical strategy. Lead architecture and code reviews, evaluate technologies, mentor engineers, and contribute to hiring and engineering best practices.

Build scalable AI and machine learning platform capabilities across model development, deployment, monitoring, cataloging, tagging, and LLM hosting. Collaborate with customers and cross-functional teams to integrate platforms such as AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Develop secure APIs and distributed backend systems, optimize cloud and containerized services, and establish robust testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.

Designs and develops IAM and security software, automation, APIs, and microservices. Integrates security into cloud and CI/CD environments, conducts code reviews and threat modeling, monitors security events, supports incident response, and advises teams on identity architecture and best practices. Requires extensive IAM administration, programming, cloud, containerization, and secure-coding experience.

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.

Build and maintain a full-stack sewer inspection analysis platform using React, TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, AWS, computer vision, geospatial analysis, and Temporal.io. Responsibilities include developing interactive dashboards, scalable APIs, video-processing workflows, mapping and risk-assessment tools, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and automated testing and deployment pipelines.

Lead technical strategy and architecture for Nextdoor’s monetization platform, building scalable, reliable, secure systems for advertising and subscription products. Partner with Product, ML, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives. Improve engineering standards, observability, release safety, and developer productivity while remaining hands-on in implementation, debugging, launches, and production operations. Mentor senior engineers and develop technical leaders.

Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.