Top Senior Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

The Senior Backend Software Engineer at Calm is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend systems that power mobile and web applications. They collaborate with stakeholders, lead development of complex features, write high-quality code, ensure test coverage, and stay updated on backend technologies. The role also involves mentoring and training software engineers.

As a Senior/Principal Backend Software Engineer on the Personalization team, you will help build features that are used by millions of users daily. The team is responsible for providing our users with personalized and relevant recommendations. We want to empower people to find content they’ll love, to foster long-term engagement on Roblox, and to connect experiences with the people that are right for them. With daily active users growing at a new record rate, we are looking for experienced backend engineers who are passionate about designing and scaling the systems that power Roblox's content distribution funnel across different surfaces.

We are looking for experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Platform team. You will be building scalable distributed systems, working with high concurrency key-value storage systems, and spinning up new services in a microservices architecture.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Alarms team at Verkada, you will be responsible for building compelling user experiences for one of Verkada’s major new product categories. You will work alongside a small team of frontend, backend, and firmware engineers to develop these experiences. This is a great opportunity to take ownership over software products that keep customers protected in times of critical need.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Virtual Guard team at Verkada, you will be responsible for building compelling user experiences for a major new product category. You will work alongside a small, dynamic team of frontend and backend engineers to develop these experiences. We are looking for someone with 4+ years of industry software engineering experience, mastery of a common server programming language (Python or Go), and mastery of scalable backend design. Knowledge of software architecture, API design, relational databases, distributed systems, and containerization technologies is also required. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale backend services, computer vision pipelines, and embedded systems to keep people safe and secure.

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team and work on our Access Control product line. You'll work alongside a dynamic team of firmware, backend, and frontend engineers to develop cloud-managed access control systems. We require 5+ years of industry software engineering experience and mastery of at least one common server programming language (Python, Go). Experience with scalable distributed system design, databases, and working in an agile development environment is also necessary. In addition, knowledge of software architecture, API design, and various technologies such as Docker, AWS, and k8s is recommended.

The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for developing alert and notification systems, creating an investigation pipeline, and enhancing the Verkada ecosystem. They should have expertise in Python or GoLang, experience with databases, and a strong background in building data-intensive applications.

Lead the development of large-scale, high-performance backend systems for cloud camera products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and maintain software infrastructure. Mentor junior software engineers.