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OpenAI

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer, Agent Infrastructure
$230k+/yrHybridBackend Engineering

Builds and scales infrastructure for training and deploying AI agents, including novel container orchestration beyond Kubernetes, FastAPI/gRPC APIs, and Terraform-based systems. Collaborates with researchers on high-scale ML environments and production platforms for OpenAI products.

Braintrust

Braintrust

San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer, Backend
No salary listedOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build scalable backend infrastructure for AI observability platform, including real-time data pipelines, LLM integrations with OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini, and open-source tracing libraries. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Node.js/Go/Python, Postgres/Redis, AWS, and observability tools.

Sardine

Sardine

Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Senior Software Engineer
R$285k+/yrRemote7+ YOEBackend Engineering

Backend-focused Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining highly available APIs, services, and data systems. The role requires 7+ years of backend experience, strong production delivery skills, and ideally expertise in Golang, data engineering, and fintech fraud or compliance.

Zilliz

Zilliz

Redwood City, CA

Staff Software Engineer, Database Systems
$175k+/yrHybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Develops distributed database systems, core architecture, and optimizes performance for enterprise AI applications. Requires 4+ years in database systems and contributions to infrastructure software like PostgreSQL or Kafka, with a bachelor's degree.

Giga

Giga

San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer I / II
$160k+/yrOn-site1+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build backend systems powering AI agents for customer experience, including data pipelines, agent infrastructure, log visualization, and dynamic knowledge features. Requires 1-3 years experience, curiosity, quick iteration, and shipping focus in a startup environment.

Recall

Recall

San Francisco, CA

Backend Software Engineer
$235k+/yrOn-site4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Develops high-performance APIs and real-time video processing pipelines for massive-scale infrastructure handling 3TB/second data. Requires 4+ years systems software experience, customer empathy, and ability to independently own features in a fast-growing startup.

Blackbird.xyz

Blackbird.xyz

New York, NY

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
$180k+/yrOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Designs, builds, and maintains core backend APIs for payments and loyalty platforms using Kotlin and RESTful services. Collaborates cross-functionally, mentors engineers, and scales systems in a fast-paced environment. Requires 5+ years experience.

Stytch

Stytch

San Francisco, CA

Experienced Software Engineer
$185k+/yrHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds and architects reliable backend services and improves systems using Go, Node.js, and TypeScript. Mentors engineers, shapes team roadmap, and collaborates on critical product projects in a hybrid SF Bay Area role requiring 5+ years experience.

Stytch

Stytch

San Francisco, CA

Experienced Backend Engineer (Product)
$185k+/yrHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds and architects reliable backend services using Go, Node.js, and TypeScript, oversees team projects, mentors engineers, and ships critical product features. Requires 5+ years backend experience and familiarity with frontend technologies.

SafetyKit

SafetyKit

San Francisco, CA

Backend Engineer (Product, Infra)
No salary listedOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Backend Engineer building scalable AI-agent infrastructure on AWS Serverless (Lambda, Step Functions, Aurora). Design high-performance systems, create monitoring/alerting, mentor team, and use codegen models to accelerate development while collaborating with AI/product teams.

Intro

Intro

Venice Beach, CA

Founding Backend Engineer
No salary listedHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable backend systems and APIs for a fast-growing access marketplace platform. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Go/Node.js/Python/Java, RESTful APIs, databases, cloud platforms, and ecommerce/payment systems.

OpenAI

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Privacy Infrastructure
$230k+/yrHybridBackend Engineering

Designs and operates scalable data infrastructure for privacy, legal compliance, and security workflows, including secure storage, search services, and automated data transfers. Partners with Legal, Security, and engineering teams to build defensible systems handling large-scale data problems.

Offchain Labs

Offchain Labs

United States

Senior Backend Engineer
No salary listedRemoteBackend Engineering

Develop core backend infrastructure for Arbitrum, Ethereum's leading scaling solution. Tackle distributed systems challenges, optimize performance, ensure security and scalability using concurrency languages like Go, Rust, or C++.

OpenAI

OpenAI

Dublin, Ireland

Software Engineer, Privacy
No salary listedHybridBackend Engineering

Build backend systems and data pipelines that support privacy, legal compliance, and sensitive-data workflows across API products and consumer applications. The role partners closely with legal, trust and safety, and engineering teams to automate customer-data processes.

SafetyKit

SafetyKit

San Francisco, CA

Senior Backend Engineer (Staff)
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Designs scalable AWS serverless infrastructure for AI agents in enterprise B2B SaaS, enabling rapid development by engineers and models. Leads technical decisions, mentors team, and drives best practices using TypeScript and CDK.

Perplexity

Perplexity

Belgrade, Serbia
Member Of Technical Staff
No salary listedOn-site3+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds and optimizes foundational search-engine components, indexing pipelines, retrieval and ranking systems, and distributed data-processing infrastructure at extreme scale. Requires at least three years of systems programming experience and strong expertise in concurrency, Linux internals, algorithms, and low-level performance optimization.

Ema

Ema

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineering Lead, Backend
$135k+/yrHybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Leads backend engineering for enterprise AI software, building scalable systems with Go/Python, APIs (REST/GraphQL), databases (PostgreSQL/Redshift), and cloud/container tech. Requires 4+ years experience, CS bachelor's, and full-stack contributions in a hybrid role.

Pigment

Pigment

Toronto, Canada

Senior Backend Software Engineer
$100k+/yrHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build and maintain scalable backend infrastructure and reusable modeling components for Pigment’s core platform. The role requires production backend engineering experience, object-oriented design skills, and proficiency in at least one supported programming language.

Finvest

Finvest

San Francisco, CA

Senior Backend Engineer
No salary listedOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior backend engineer designs and owns core infrastructure including multi-agent LLM architecture for AI-powered wealth management. Works with massive financial datasets and collaborates on user experiences. Requires 5+ years backend experience, Node/TS/Python fluency, and distributed systems expertise.

TensorStax

TensorStax

San Francisco, CA

Backend Engineer, Data & Agent Platform
No salary listedHybridBackend Engineering

Build core agent framework for autonomous AI data infrastructure using Python and distributed systems. Requires experience in agentic AI apps, open-source contributions like LangChain/AutoGen, and backend architecture design.

Formal

Formal

San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer | Backend
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Designs and develops high-performance backend data platforms handling real-time large-scale data using Golang, streaming frameworks like Kafka, and containerization tools. Owns features from research to production, optimizes systems, and leads impactful initiatives in a fast-growing startup.

Ema

Ema

United States

Software Engineer, Backend
$135k+/yrOn-site4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build and maintain scalable backend systems, APIs, data schemas, and enterprise integrations using Go and Python. The role requires at least four years of relevant experience, strong database and cloud expertise, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

Nash

Nash

San Francisco, CA

Senior Backend Engineer
No salary listedHybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Designs and builds scalable backend services, APIs, and infrastructure for logistics platform. Requires 4+ years experience with Python, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, AWS, and system optimization.

Stellar

Stellar

New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer, Core
$180k+/yrHybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Designs, builds, and scales Stellar Core, the distributed system maintaining the Stellar blockchain ledger and global consensus. Requires 4+ years experience with modern C++ or Rust, distributed systems knowledge, and strong communication for technical leadership.

Palantir

Palantir

Washington, DC
Backend Software Engineer - Defense
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Builds high-performance, scalable backend services and robust APIs for defense products enabling data integration, geospatial workflows, and real-time collaboration. Requires strong backend expertise in distributed systems, data structures, and languages like Java, Rust, Python, or Go, plus engineering degree.

AngelList

AngelList

New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer, Accounting
No salary listedHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds scalable accounting infrastructure and models financial workflows for venture fund management, ensuring data integrity and audit-ready outputs. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Ruby on Rails, React, relational DBs, and finance domain knowledge.

LangChain

LangChain

San Francisco, CA
Python OSS Engineer
$160k+/yrOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Maintains and improves the core Python LangChain and LangGraph packages, enhances documentation, resolves community issues, and builds example AI applications. Requires 5+ years in software engineering or applied ML, strong communication, and ownership mindset.

Collate

Collate

San Francisco, CA

Full-Stack Software Engineer (Backend-Leaning)
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Build backend-heavy full-stack systems, APIs, data pipelines, and end-to-end features using Go, TypeScript/React, and AWS/Kubernetes. Collaborate with product/design/AI teams, own production systems including on-call, with emphasis on scalability and user experience.

Extend

Extend

New York, NY

Staff Software Engineer
$250k+/yrOn-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds scalable systems for document processing using LLMs and AI/ML, designs novel human-AI interfaces, and owns end-to-end projects in a high-growth startup. Requires 7+ years experience deploying production AI systems with high agency.

OpenAI

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA
Software Engineer, Compute - Storage
$230k+/yrHybridBackend Engineering

Build and operate storage infrastructure powering OpenAI's research and production, including object stores, cross-region data movement, lifecycle management, and federation layers on Kubernetes using Rust.

Retell AI

Retell AI

San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$200k+/yrOn-site2+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds scalable backend systems for AI voice platform handling millions of calls, focusing on prompt orchestration, telephony integrations, and DevOps workflows. Requires 2+ years backend experience with CS fundamentals, concurrency, and distributed systems.

Alluxio

Alluxio

Foster City, CA

Senior Software Engineer
No salary listedHybridBackend Engineering

Senior Software Engineer designs and optimizes distributed systems for Alluxio's data orchestration platform, focusing on caching, metadata management, I/O performance, and fault-tolerance in multi-cloud environments. Requires strong experience in Java/C++/Go and distributed storage technologies like Spark, Hadoop, and Kubernetes.

Finvest

Finvest

India

Senior Backend Engineer
No salary listedOn-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build and scale the backend infrastructure powering an AI-first wealth management platform, including financial-data processing and external service integrations. The role requires backend engineering experience with Node.js/TypeScript, Python, PostgreSQL, and AWS, plus comfort building systems from scratch in a startup environment.

Level AI

Level AI

Noida, India
Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents
No salary listedHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Builds scalable, low-latency backend systems and orchestration frameworks for production AI agents in real-time enterprise environments. Requires 5+ years of backend, distributed systems, or platform engineering experience, with strong API, cloud, and microservices expertise.

Runpod

Runpod

United States

Senior Software Engineer
$150k+/yrRemote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling cloud infrastructure for AI/ML workloads on distributed systems across global data centers. Requires 3+ years experience with strong Go skills; distributed systems, containerization, and ML deployment experience preferred.

Finch

Finch

San Francisco, CA
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
No salary listedHybrid10+ YOEBackend Engineering

Leads design, build, and maintenance of backend services for high-volume data processing and employment system integrations. Requires 10+ years backend experience, strong system design, NodeJS/PostgreSQL/Redis expertise, and leadership in ambiguous, high-growth environments.

Level AI

Level AI

Noida, India
Senior Backend Engineer
No salary listedHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable products and REST APIs. The role requires 2–5 years of backend experience, strong Python and Django skills, database and system design knowledge, and familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure.

Pigment

Pigment

London, United Kingdom

Senior Backend Software Engineer
No salary listedRemote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build and maintain Pigment’s production SaaS platform, designing object-oriented software and delivering customer-focused solutions. The role requires professional software engineering experience, strong problem-solving ability, and proficiency in at least one relevant programming language.

Letta

Letta

San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Agent Platform
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Builds scalable backend services, APIs, and OSS framework for production AI agent systems. Requires strong Python expertise, service architecture, SQL databases, and AI tooling familiarity; in-person in San Francisco.

Revefi

Revefi

Bengaluru, India

Lead Backend Engineer
No salary listedHybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering

Leads the architecture and implementation of scalable backend services for a SaaS platform while mentoring engineers and driving reliability, performance, and technical strategy. Requires 8+ years of backend development experience and strong expertise in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

Collectly

Collectly

United States

Senior SW Engineer (USA based)
$180k+/yrRemote6+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior software engineer building and operating Python-first backend systems and end-to-end web application features for a healthcare technology product. Requires 6+ years of production experience, U.S. residency, and strong ownership across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.

Complete

Complete

San Francisco, CA

Senior/Staff Backend Engineer
No salary listedOn-siteBackend Engineering

Builds and scales backend systems for compensation platform, owning business lines end-to-end. Works autonomously on enterprise challenges like authorization, security, and observability using Python/Django and GraphQL.

Level AI

Level AI

Noida, India

Lead Software Engineer - AI Agents
No salary listedHybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Leads development of scalable, low-latency backend systems that power production AI agents in real-time enterprise environments. The role requires 5+ years of backend, distributed-systems, or platform-engineering experience, with AI agent and LLM experience strongly preferred.

Flex

Flex

United States
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$150k+/yrRemote4+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior backend engineer owning large domains in card processing, ledgering, and financial services. Architects scalable services, mentors team, and drives end-to-end projects with 4+ years experience in Node.js/TypeScript and cloud platforms.

Zoox

Zoox

Foster City, CA

Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Behavior Capabilities
$242k+/yrHybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Fail Operational Planning team, you will develop behavioral and motion planning algorithms to improve robot operation and customer experience. This role involves creating algorithmic improvements, collaborating cross-functionally, and architecting scalable solutions.

Elicit

Elicit

Oakland, CA

AI Engineer
No salary listedHybridBackend Engineering

Builds backend systems integrating LLMs for AI research tools like living documents, focusing on prompting, model management, scalability, and fault-tolerance. Requires strong backend skills in Node/Python/K8s and enthusiasm for language models.

N1

N1

New York, NY

Software Engineer
$120k+/yrRemoteBackend Engineering

Build core backend components for a horizontally scalable blockchain network, focusing on networking, reliability, and scalability. The role requires backend and systems programming experience, proficiency in a low-level language such as Rust, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Alluxio

Alluxio

Foster City, CA

Staff Software Engineer
No salary listedHybridBackend Engineering

Staff Software Engineer designs and implements core components of Alluxio's distributed data orchestration platform, optimizing caching, metadata, and I/O for large-scale AI/ML workloads across multi-cloud environments. Requires strong distributed systems expertise in Java/C++/Go and technical leadership.

N1

N1

New York, NY

Senior Software Engineer
$120k+/yrRemote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

Senior backend engineer responsible for building scalable, reliable blockchain infrastructure primarily in Rust, with emphasis on networking and systems programming. Requires 5+ years of backend experience and a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Truv

Truv

Georgia

Software Engineer - Data Sources Team
No salary listedRemote3+ YOEBackend Engineering

Build and test cloud-based server-side applications in Python for a financial data API platform. The role requires 3+ years of experience, AWS and Docker knowledge, CI/CD experience, and strong testing practices.