Top Remote Staff Software Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Lead technical strategy and execution for multi-quarter initiatives, build and maintain software systems using AI, mentor and elevate engineers, collaborate across disciplines, and protect user privacy and security. The role involves working in an AWS and Kubernetes environment with technologies including Python, TypeScript, React, Go, Airflow, dbt, and Claude Code.

Leads architecture and technical direction for scalable, high-availability software services. Owns complex, multi-team initiatives, makes autonomous technical decisions, partners cross-functionally, mentors engineers, establishes standards, and advocates for quality. The role develops mission-critical systems supporting millions of endpoints and requires deep Java expertise, scalable system design, API development, relational databases, and strong testing practices.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput, low-latency ad-serving infrastructure processing millions of requests per second. Optimize GPU-powered TensorRT inference, feature stores, model serving, benchmarking, experimentation tooling, and system reliability. Partner with machine learning engineers to productionize models and own systems through design, deployment, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and optimization.

Build and productionize agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, AI services, backend systems, and ML pipelines for sales automation. Integrate Salesforce, quoting engines, data lakes, and internal platforms using scalable, event-driven architectures. Lead 0-to-1 development of tools for account research, lead prioritization, and quoting while ensuring reliability, observability, performance, and resilience across the GTM technology stack.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Lead modernization of high-throughput cybersecurity detection engines and event pipelines in Go. Own distributed-system reliability, observability, liveness monitoring, load management, schema standards, drift detection, migration validation, and safe cutovers. Provide hands-on technical leadership across teams, set platform direction, write and review production code, and support Sigma-based detection capabilities. Collaborate across a broad stack including Kafka, Temporal, Redis, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and Ruby on Rails.

Leads technical vision and strategy for Affirm’s Marketplace, Search, Ads Platform, and consumer experiences. Designs scalable full-stack platforms, guides architecture and technical excellence, coordinates initiatives across engineering teams, mentors engineers, and drives reliable delivery of customer-focused products across iOS, Android, and Web.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture of the FCM platform, ensuring financial correctness and system integrity, while modernizing systems and improving operational tooling.

Architect and build LLM-based, agentic AI systems and production pipelines (RAG, orchestration, memory, tool integration). Lead cross-functional delivery across frontend, backend, and ML, drive tooling/infrastructure choices, mentor engineers, and ensure scalable, observable, production-ready GenAI features.

Own and lead Coinbase’s developer infrastructure platforms, including CI, build systems, and deployment orchestration. Set technical direction for complex cross-team initiatives, improve build and deployment performance, manage reliability and observability, and drive platform migrations and adoption. Partner with engineering leaders, operate production systems, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable tools used across the organization.

Design, build, and operate production AI automations and agentic workflows for Toast’s customer care systems. Integrate LLMs with Salesforce Service Cloud, Amazon Connect, and workflow platforms; develop autonomous actions with human oversight; test, monitor, and improve system reliability, accuracy, latency, and cost. Collaborate with software engineers, Salesforce developers, and care operations stakeholders to translate workflows into scalable intelligent solutions.

Define the technical vision and multi-quarter strategy for Coinbase’s FinHub financial infrastructure. Architect scalable ledger and money-movement primitives across fiat and crypto, ensuring double-entry accounting, idempotency, reconciliation, auditability, reliability, and safe failure recovery. Lead complex cross-team architectural initiatives, collaborate with finance, risk, compliance, and operations stakeholders, and mentor senior engineers while improving system design and operational excellence.

Define architecture and metrics for autonomous driving evaluation, lead cross-functional integration across autonomy and simulation teams, develop statistical and machine learning methods, analyze large-scale time-series data, manage evaluation KPIs and release gates, and communicate safety and readiness insights through dashboards and stakeholder presentations.

Architect and deliver distributed backend systems and infrastructure supporting customer service and KYC compliance workflows. Set technical direction, define roadmaps, lead end-to-end project delivery, mentor engineers, and build reliable high-scale services using Go, gRPC, TypeScript, React, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps tooling. Partner across teams and time zones to improve platform capabilities, workflow efficiency, cost, quality, customer satisfaction, and compliance outcomes.

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 architecture and delivery of complex web and mobile product initiatives. Build React and React Native applications, scalable components, APIs, data models, and shared libraries. Establish engineering standards, improve testing, performance, security, and reliability, and optimize database queries. Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and partner with leadership and stakeholders to shape the product roadmap. This is a fully remote role supporting veterinary clinic operations and supply-chain workflows.

Own the design, development, and automation of Coinbase’s routing infrastructure connecting services to Kubernetes backends. Build scalable capabilities using Envoy, Istio, Ambient Mesh, and SPIFFE; improve routing latency, reliability, and performance; enhance developer tooling with responsible AI; and collaborate with security, reliability, and observability teams to resolve complex distributed-systems issues.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable backend services and platform components for Toast's Voice AI platform. Lead cross-cutting architecture and projects, integrate AI platforms (LLMs), implement observability and evaluation for AI systems, set engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Own technical strategy and architectural decisions across multiple engineering squads. Design scalable distributed systems, APIs, data models, and cloud-native platforms while building shared systems that improve delivery. Partner with product and engineering leadership, resolve ambiguous technical challenges, establish AI-assisted development practices, and mentor engineers through design reviews and cross-team collaboration. The role requires full-stack expertise and strong influence, communication, and technical leadership in a high-stakes B2B SaaS environment.

Lead the technical direction of Samsara’s shared geospatial platform. Build scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines, map data models, spatial services, routing and map-matching foundations, and reusable APIs. Scale storage, queries, and computation for real-time products, consolidate fragmented geospatial solutions, develop customer self-service capabilities, and provide mentorship through code reviews and design leadership. Collaborate across teams and represent Samsara in the mapping and geospatial community.

Architect and build production agentic AI systems for customer support and compliance automation. Lead technical direction for distributed systems, APIs, orchestration frameworks, guardrails, and evaluation systems. Create reusable automation primitives, improve grounding and reliability, reduce hallucinations, and mentor engineers on LLM application design and production readiness. Collaborate cross-functionally to scale AI automation across Coinbase.

Lead the technical direction of Zocdoc’s patient acquisition platform, building scalable APIs, microservices, AWS infrastructure, and React experiences. Improve SEO, page speed, system reliability, and patient-facing data access. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Marketing, integrate third-party data and Contentful, apply LLM technology, promote engineering excellence, mentor engineers, and drive AI-focused innovation across distributed teams.

Join MongoDB's Query Execution team to improve the database's core execution engine, build high-performance query features, and mentor team members. You will drive roadmap initiatives and ensure production-ready code for complex analytical workloads.

Lead design and evolution of SentiLink's data platform for fraud detection. Architect scalable batch and streaming pipelines, improve reliability, performance, and observability, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, drive cross-team technical initiatives, participate in production support/on-call, and evaluate build-vs-buy and emerging technologies.