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Reposted 3 Days Ago
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
90K-150K Annually
Junior
90K-150K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech
As a Backend Engineer, you'll design, implement, and maintain backend infrastructure, ensuring reliability and scalability while collaborating with teams to enhance user experience.
Top Skills: AWSDevOpsMongoDBNode.js
Reposted 11 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
130K-280K Annually
Junior
130K-280K Annually
Junior
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
This role involves building scalable backend systems, maintaining a public API, developing internal tools, and collaborating across teams at Verkada.
Top Skills: C++DynamoGoJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPython
2 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Generative AI
Design and implement a distributed backend platform for AI applications, focusing on performance, security, and operability. Engage with users and work closely with the founder.
Top Skills: Aws FargateCC++GoKubernetesRust
Reposted 4 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
135K-165K
Mid level
135K-165K
Mid level
Big Data • Healthtech • HR Tech • Machine Learning • Software • Telehealth • Big Data Analytics
The Backend Engineer II will build and maintain back-end services, respond to system outages, collaborate across disciplines, protect user privacy, and contribute to feature ideation and technological research. They should have a strong background in software development, particularly with Python and cloud services, and will work with various technologies to improve healthcare delivery.
Top Skills: AWSElasticsearchKubernetesNatsPostgresPythonSnowflakeTerraformTypescript
4 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
156K-220K
Senior level
156K-220K
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Software • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Big Data Analytics
As a Backend Engineer, you will build and maintain APIs, optimize data processing pipelines, and scale infrastructure while collaborating with various teams.
Top Skills: Apollo GraphqlAWSElasticsearchExpressHelmKubernetesLancedbPostgresRedisTerraformTypescript
8 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
As a Backend Engineer III, you'll lead backend engineering for the Falcon Forensics product, enhance monitoring, resolve performance issues, and automate operations in collaboration with UI engineers and UX designers.
Top Skills: AWSC++CassandraDockerElasticsearchFalcon LogscaleGitGoJavaJenkinsK8SKafkaPythonRedisSlack
Reposted 7 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
154K-248K
Senior level
154K-248K
Senior level
eCommerce • Software • Design • SEO
The Staff Backend Engineer will architect and implement scalable access control systems, drive collaboration across teams, and mentor engineers, ensuring high-quality software development.
Top Skills: AWSMongoDBNode.jsTypescript
9 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
150K-280K Annually
Senior level
150K-280K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will build scalable distributed systems, work with key-value storage systems, and mentor junior engineers.
Top Skills: DynamoDBGoMySQLPostgresPythonRedis

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Reposted 11 Days Ago
Easy Apply
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
185K-245K
Senior level
185K-245K
Senior level
eCommerce • Mobile
As a Backend Engineer on the Risk team, you'll develop systems for user moderation, issue mitigation, and behavior monitoring while ensuring high quality and scaling solutions promptly.
Top Skills: ElixirJavaScriptPython
Reposted 11 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
200K-300K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will design and maintain backend systems for device security, automate security testing, and mentor engineers. Collaborate within agile teams to improve overall security measures.
Top Skills: AWSDockerDynamoDBGoIamKafkaPostgresPythonRedisS3
12 Days Ago
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
171K-274K Annually
Senior level
171K-274K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
The Principal Engineer in Cloud Transition leads architecture initiatives, focusing on cloud technology, migration solutions, and compliance, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance engineering practices.
Top Skills: AWSCloud ArchitectureFlinkKafka
4 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
Mid level
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
The role involves developing and improving GitLab's Source Code Management tools, optimizing performance, collaborating with teams, and shipping features.
Top Skills: GoGraphQLPostgresRuby GrapeRuby On RailsSQL
7 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
230K-250K
Senior level
230K-250K
Senior level
Big Data • Healthtech • HR Tech • Machine Learning • Software • Telehealth • Big Data Analytics
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll architect scalable data pipelines, ensure user privacy, mentor engineers, and support production operations.
Top Skills: ArgoKubernetesPostgresPythonSQL
13 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will design and implement scalable backend systems, develop APIs, optimize databases, and mentor teams, driving technical solutions across the organization.
Top Skills: AWSCatsCats-EffectCirceDatadogDockerDoobieHttp4SKafkaKubernetesMskPlayPlay JsonPostgresScalaSkunkSlickTerraform
Reposted 4 Hours Ago
Easy Apply
Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
135K-350K
Senior level
135K-350K
Senior level
Blockchain • Information Technology • Software • Cryptocurrency • Web3
As a backend engineer at Alchemy, you'll design and build features for high-throughput distributed systems, ensuring reliability and low latency while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: AWSJavaPythonTypescript
Reposted 16 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
130K-180K Annually
Mid level
130K-180K Annually
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Hardware • Machine Learning • Other • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
As a Backend Engineer, you will design and maintain backend systems, manage database schemas, write business logic, and ensure robust integration with internal tools and APIs.
Top Skills: AWSGCPGraphQLHerokuKubernetesOpenapiPostgresPythonSentry
8 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
110K-180K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Computer Vision • Information Technology • Sales • Security • Cybersecurity
As a Backend Engineer III, you will design scalable backend services, develop command-line utilities, support integrations, and work on securing cloud workloads.
Top Skills: AWSAzureCassandraDockerElasticsearchGCPGitGoGrafanaHclKafkaKubernetesPagerdutyPostgresPrometheusRedisRestful ApiSplunkTerraform
Reposted Yesterday
Easy Apply
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
Senior level
Senior level
Fintech • Mobile • Software • Financial Services
Lead and develop scalable banking core systems, mentor engineers, architect solutions, and collaborate across product teams.
Top Skills: JavaKotlinKubernetesPostgresReactSpring
10 Days Ago
Easy Apply
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Easy Apply
Mid level
Mid level
Cloud • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Automation
As a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab, you will enhance developer productivity by creating tools, mentoring engineers, and optimizing workflows.
Top Skills: AnsibleAWSAzureGCPGoGoogle Cloud RunRubySnowflakeTerraform
10 Days Ago
Remote
Hybrid
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
180K-225K Annually
Senior level
180K-225K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software
Develop core backend services using Golang and PostgreSQL, resolving issues, writing tests, and collaborating with cross-functional teams for a life insurance platform.
Top Skills: Ci/CdDockerGoPostgres
Reposted 7 Days Ago
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
146K-235K Annually
Senior level
146K-235K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Atlassian, you will drive complex backend projects from design to launch, lead code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and tackle architecture challenges while collaborating across engineering teams to enhance system performance and scalability.
Reposted 4 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
203K-249K Annually
Senior level
203K-249K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Professional Services • Software
As a Staff Back End Engineer at Altruist, you will lead engineering best practices, mentor other engineers, build scalable AI-driven applications, and develop innovative solutions for financial advisors. Responsibilities include maintaining data pipelines, integrating third-party AI services, and solving complex data issues.
Reposted 5 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Senior level
Senior level
Information Technology • Software
Develop and expand the foundational accounting platform, integrate with fintech providers, and drive new product opportunities as a key Backend Software Engineer at Wholesail.
Top Skills: AWSGCPPostgres
6 Days Ago
Remote
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
171K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
171K-274K Annually
Expert/Leader
Cloud • Information Technology • Productivity • Security • Software • App development • Automation
The role involves leading software development projects, solving complex architecture challenges, mentoring junior engineers, and setting standards for code quality.
Top Skills: AWSAzureGCPGoJavaKotlinNode.jsPythonScala
Reposted 11 Days Ago
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
130K-280K Annually
Senior level
130K-280K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Hardware • Security • Software
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Verkada, you'll develop scalable backend systems, including workflows, monitoring, and automation for security solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Top Skills: AWSDockerDynamoDBGoKafkaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPythonRedis
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