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Backend Engineering roles cluster around $175k, with most listings between $150k and $200k. Most common stacks in the current backend engineering listings: Python, AWS, Kubernetes. Databricks leads the board with 30 open backend engineering roles, followed by Rippling and OpenAI.

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OpenAI

Software Engineer, Cloud Agents

Build and scale orchestration, sandboxing, and storage systems for long-running cloud agents powering Codex, ChatGPT, and the OpenAI API. Requires 9+ years experience leading large-scale backend or infrastructure projects.

293k – 385kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybridGoRust
Stripe

Staff Engineer, Billing

Staff Engineer leading technical architecture and extensibility platform for Stripe Billing. Owns complex system design, cross-team initiatives, and scaling early product adoption to general availability.

Seattle, WA +1Backend EngineeringOn-siteDistributed SystemsTechnical Leadership
Onos Health

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer to architect AI/ML workflows processing healthcare data, lead platform integrations, and own end-to-end feature development. Requires 5+ years experience and prior tech lead experience.

180k – 240kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybridAWSPython
Weave

Senior Backend Engineer - Performance

Founding Senior Backend Engineer to build Weave's performance engineering practice, focusing on scaling the Truelark platform and creating self-service testing frameworks for Go microservices on Kubernetes.

Lehi, UTBackend EngineeringRemoteGok6
GlossGenius

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Staff Backend Engineer leading architecture and technical direction for AI-powered products. Owns system design, mentors engineers, and builds proof-of-concepts in Kotlin on AWS/Kubernetes.

241k – 284kNew York, NYBackend EngineeringHybridAWSLLMs
Pindrop

Senior Software Engineer - Pulse

Design, develop, and maintain scalable cloud services and APIs in Go and Python. Requires 5-7 years of experience, strong DevOps skills with Kubernetes and CI/CD, and expertise in data structures, algorithms, and concurrency.

130k – 170kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteGoS3
Pindrop

Senior Software Engineer - Capture

Senior Software Engineer building real-time audio/video ingestion and media processing pipelines for telephony and meeting platforms (Zoom, Teams, Webex, Meet). Requires strong experience with VoIP/WebRTC, distributed systems, and Kubernetes.

130k – 170kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteSIPRTP
Tailscale

Software Engineer, Networking

Build and operate Tailscale’s global Funnel and DERP relay infrastructure, focusing on networking features, performance, and reliability. Requires strong Go, networking, and distributed-systems experience.

163k – 226kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteGoSRE
Oneleet

Software Engineer, Integrations

Build and maintain backend integrations connecting a security platform to cloud providers and third-party tools. Focus on reliable data pipelines, API integrations, and authentication flows.

110k – 180kBeaverton, ORBackend EngineeringRemoteGoC#
David AI

Software Engineer, Platform

Build and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems for audio data pipelines at a Series B audio AI startup. Requires 3+ years backend experience with strong distributed systems and cloud infrastructure skills.

160k – 200kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringOn-siteAWStRPC
NexHealth

Software Engineer

Early-career backend engineer building healthcare infrastructure, writing production code for EHR integrations and data pipelines with senior mentorship.

129k – 190kSeattle, WABackend EngineeringOn-siteGoSQL
OfferUp

Staff Software Development Engineer

Staff-level engineer defining technical roadmap and building/operating high-throughput Java microservices for OfferUp's business verticals. Owns features end-to-end, mentors engineers, drives experimentation, and champions AI tooling adoption.

210k – 240kBellevue, WA +1Backend EngineeringHybridAWSJava
Paradigm

Senior Software Engineer

Senior engineer building distributed LLM agent infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience designing and deploying production distributed services.

300k – 400kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringOn-siteGoS3
Tines

Staff Software Engineer

Lead technical direction and scale backend job processing systems and code execution engines for an intelligent workflow platform. Requires 10+ years experience with Linux systems, container runtimes, and low-level primitives in Rust or Go.

230k – 250kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteGoRuby
Sprig

Software Engineer, AI Team

Build and maintain backend systems and AI inference pipelines that process large-scale user feedback into actionable product insights. Requires 2+ years of production software experience and willingness to work primarily in TypeScript.

150k – 230kSan Francisco, CABackend EngineeringHybridAWSSQL
Formal

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Design and build a high-performance, real-time data security platform handling large data volumes. Requires 6+ years building scalable backend systems with strong Golang and systems-level experience.

San Francisco, CABackend EngineeringOn-siteS3SSH
ZoomInfo

Senior Software Engineer - API & MCP Platform

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling ZoomInfo's API infrastructure with Java and NestJS. Focus on RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0 security, MCP tools for AI integrations, and high-performance API gateways handling millions of calls.

140k – 200kBethesda, MD +1Backend EngineeringHybridJWTJava
ZoomInfo

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Integrations

Senior backend engineer designing and building scalable workflow orchestration and event-driven systems using Java/Spring Boot, Node.js/NestJS, Temporal, and Kafka.

140k – 200kBethesda, MDBackend EngineeringHybridJavaKafka
Headway

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer on the Revenue Engine team setting technical direction for payment and clearinghouse platforms. Hands-on leader designing fault-tolerant integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and payer systems while mentoring engineers.

224k – 280kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteAWSReact
Nango

Backend Engineer

Nango is seeking Senior & Staff Backend Engineers to design and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for their open-source platform. This role involves collaborating with customers, optimizing performance, and shaping the product roadmap.

120k – 200kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteAPIsNode.js
Beacon AI

Lead Backend Software Engineer

As a Lead Backend Software Engineer, you will design, build, and scale backend systems for a flight safety platform. This role involves hands-on development, technical leadership, and ownership of services, APIs, and data pipelines to deliver reliable and scalable systems.

185k – 260kSan Carlos, CABackend EngineeringHybridAPIsPython
Stellar Cyber

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer building scalable backend systems and data processing components for a cybersecurity Open XDR platform, collaborating with ML researchers and product teams.

150k – 200kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoteGoJava
Fortanix

Staff Software Engineer - Rust and Distributed Systems

Design, build, and own core distributed microservices powering a confidential computing platform. Requires 8+ years experience, strong Rust/backend/distributed systems skills, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

Santa Clara, CABackend EngineeringHybridAWSGCP
Writer

Software Engineer, Connectors & MCP

As a Software Engineer, you will design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms, connecting enterprise systems and powering mission-critical automation. You will contribute to the AI integration client ecosystem and own backend service design for high-throughput, low-latency APIs.

155k – 304kSan Francisco, CA +2Backend EngineeringHybridBunAWS
Reddit

Staff Software Engineer, Onboarding

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Onboarding team, you will define and accelerate the backend architecture for new user experiences, focusing on signal collection, personalization pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure. You will foster a growth engineering mindset and scale impact through collaborative engineering.

217k – 303kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemoterankingA/B testing