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Chainguard

Principal Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Principal-level engineer setting technical direction for Athena, a distributed vulnerability data clearing house. Owns architecture, data validation, and scaling from prototype to production-grade systems.

220k – 258k/yr
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Rula

Sr. Software Engineer - Provider Services

RulaUnited States

Senior backend engineer building scalable systems for provider services, third-party integrations, and telehealth at a mental healthcare platform. Requires 5+ years experience and expertise in distributed systems.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Openly

Senior Backend Engineer

OpenlyUnited States

Senior Backend Engineer building and maintaining core backend services and APIs for Openly's insurance platform using Go and PostgreSQL on Google Cloud. Requires 4+ years of backend experience with demonstrated Go expertise.

146k – 218k/yr
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Grafana Labs

Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | US | Remote

Grafana LabsUnited States

Senior backend engineer focused on building and operating distributed systems for Pyroscope's continuous profiling database, handling profile ingestion, queries, and cloud-scale reliability. Requires strong distributed systems and Kubernetes experience plus proficiency in Go or similar languages.

154k – 185k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Polymarket

Senior Software Engineer, Perpetuals

PolymarketNew York, NY

Senior backend engineer to own and optimize core exchange systems for perpetual futures, including low-latency order matching, position management, and observability at scale.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Commure

Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI

CommureMountain View, CA +2

Senior Backend Engineer building and scaling AI-powered healthcare infrastructure using Python, Flask, Django, and FastAPI. Focus on production environments, reliability, and direct customer impact.

170k – 230k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Stellar Cyber

Senior Staff Software Engineer - Integration

Stellar CyberUnited States

Senior Staff Software Engineer owning integration domains end-to-end for an AI-driven cybersecurity SecOps platform. Architects microservices, designs APIs, mentors engineers, and leverages AI tools to accelerate development.

180k – 245k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Fetch

Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Experiences

FetchUnited States

Staff Backend Engineer building and scaling backend systems for rewarded gaming, shopping rewards, card-linked earning, and offer platforms. Requires 12+ years experience designing distributed, event-driven systems with strong API design and observability expertise.

Salary not listed
Remote12+ YOEBackend Engineering
Huntress

Senior Software Engineer - Endpoint Services Portal

HuntressUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building and owning Ruby on Rails portal experiences that surface endpoint health, diagnostics, and remediation workflows for customers and internal teams.

160k – 190k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
ZoomInfo

Senior Software Engineer

ZoomInfoAustin, TX

Senior Backend Engineer owning end-to-end initiatives on a Python/FastAPI + React stack with agentic AI capabilities. Requires 4-8 years experience and strong product sense.

140k – 220k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering
NinjaTrader

Staff Software Engineer - Scala

NinjaTraderChicago, IL +23

Staff-level Scala engineer to design, build, and operate a high-throughput, low-latency trading platform on Kubernetes. Requires 8+ years building reactive distributed systems and 5+ years with Scala/JVM.

160k – 200k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pinecone

Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Database Team

PineconeNew York, NY

Build and optimize distributed database features for AI applications in Rust, Go, or C++. Focus on performance, reliability, and scalability in a hybrid New York City role.

190k – 270k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Illumio

Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Architecture

IllumioSunnyvale, CA

Senior engineer developing containerized microservices in Java/Spring Boot or Go for a distributed multi-tenant security platform on Kubernetes. Owns full SDLC, mentors juniors, and operates production systems serving real-time cloud telemetry.

170k – 196k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Idme

Staff Software Engineer - Wallet/Authentication Platform

IdmeMountain View, CA

Staff Software Engineer leading technical direction for ID.me's authentication platform, building sign-in, MFA, and account management infrastructure serving 140M+ users. Requires 8+ years experience, Java/Spring Boot expertise, and AI-assisted development tooling experience.

222k – 258k/yr
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Senior Software Engineer

UpstartUnited States

Design and build internal software platforms, APIs, and data workflows supporting risk, compliance, and operations for Upstart Bank. Requires 4+ years experience, production web apps, PostgreSQL, and REST API development.

165k – 228k/yr
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Principal Software Engineer

UpstartUnited States

Principal Software Engineer providing technical leadership for internal platforms, security automation, and workflow systems supporting Upstart Bank operations. Requires 8+ years experience and a bachelor's degree.

191k – 264k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Hinge Health

Staff Software Engineer, Device Software

Hinge HealthSan Francisco, CA

Staff-level backend engineer leading device-adjacent software systems at Hinge Health. Owns Python/Next.js services, APIs, and integrations connecting devices, mobile/web clients, and backend infrastructure.

192k – 288k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Lyft

Senior Software Engineer, Growth Platforms

LyftNew York, NY +1

Senior engineer building and owning Growth Platforms systems for incentives and messaging at Lyft. Requires 5+ years experience, Python/Go, distributed systems, and cloud platforms.

148k – 185k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff

PerplexitySan Francisco, CA +3

Build and operate the connector runtime and semantic layer that enables Perplexity agents to securely integrate with hundreds of external systems and enterprise data sources.

220k – 405k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Exa

Software Engineer, Knowledge Systems

ExaSan Francisco, CA

Build systems for extracting, connecting, retrieving, and reasoning over knowledge from the web to enable AI agents to answer questions with precision. Requires experience with complex distributed backend systems and petabyte-scale data pipelines.

180k – 350k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Chainguard

Senior Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Senior engineer leading automation platform design and AI-powered tooling for secure container image delivery. Requires 5-7 years experience, strong Go skills, and expertise in Linux, containers, and LLM integration.

157k – 184k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Staff Software Engineer - Content Platform

RedditUnited States

Lead development of Reddit's Content Platform, owning Tier-0 services and core data models that power feeds, posting, and commenting. Design scalable distributed systems in Go/Python while mentoring engineers and driving platform evolution.

217k – 304k/yr
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Software Engineer, Private Computing

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Design, build, and scale privacy features and infrastructure for ChatGPT, API, and consumer devices using confidential computing and encryption. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience and production experience with trusted execution environments.

230k – 385k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Function Health

Staff Software Engineer

Function HealthUnited States

Lead design and development of scalable health data systems as a hands-on engineering leader with 12+ years of experience. Drive cross-functional projects and solve complex technical challenges in a remote startup environment.

Salary not listed
Remote12+ YOEBackend Engineering
Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Staff engineer on the Containers team owning complex technical components of Chainguard Images, driving long-term technical direction, and mentoring engineers. Requires 10+ years experience, deep expertise in containers/Kubernetes/Go, and IaC.

205k – 231k/yr
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Crusoe

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Billing Platform

CrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud's billing platform, owning metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments end-to-end. Requires 5+ years backend experience with Go, Java, Rust, or C++, plus distributed systems and financial data expertise.

238k – 288k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Vapi

Member of Technical Staff, Core Backend

VapiSan Francisco, CA

Owns the StreamModule voice pipeline (VAD→STT→LLM→TTS) for real-time call agents. Consolidates BullMQ to Kafka, hardens provider abstractions, adds OTEL tracing, and eliminates Postgres SPOFs.

180k – 265k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Teleport

Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Scalability

TeleportUnited States

Senior backend engineer focused on platform scalability, performance, and reliability for Teleport's identity infrastructure. Requires extensive Go experience and distributed systems expertise.

222k – 342k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Parafin

Staff Software Engineer, Merchant Platform

ParafinSan Francisco, CA

Build and own the merchant platform's money movement infrastructure and product-agnostic tools that power Parafin's financial offerings. Requires 6+ years building production backend/platform systems and a CS degree.

285k – 330k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Commure

Staff Backend Engineer

CommureMountain View, CA +3

Staff Backend Engineer building and scaling healthcare systems with Python and Go. Leads technical planning, influences roadmaps, and ships daily in a fast-paced environment.

200k – 250k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Fluidstack

Member of Technical Staff

FluidstackSan Francisco, CA +3

Build core primitives for entity ownership, audit, authorization, and orchestration. Own domain models for power, datacenters, and chips while enabling AI agents to safely operate production systems.

150k – 250k/yr
HybridBackend Engineering
Fireworks AI

Member of Technical Staff

Fireworks AINew York, NY

Design and maintain large-scale backend infrastructure for distributed ML training, inference, and data pipelines at a generative AI startup. Requires 4+ years building scalable cloud systems with Python/Go/C++ and distributed data technologies.

175k – 220k/yr
On-site4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Level AI

Senior Backend Engineer - AI Agents

Level AIUnited States

Senior backend engineer building scalable, real-time systems and orchestration frameworks that power production-grade AI Agents for enterprise contact centers.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Maybern

Senior Software Engineer

MaybernNew York, NY

Seasoned product-focused engineer to architect and build core backend systems for a private fund management platform. Requires strong technical skills in Python/Django, databases, and distributed systems.

180k – 230k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Perplexity

Member of Technical Staff

PerplexitySan Francisco, CA +1

Build and scale mission-critical APIs delivering frontier AI capabilities to developers and agents. Requires 5+ years backend experience in Python/Go/Rust plus strong API design and cloud infrastructure skills.

220k – 405k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Crusoe

Senior Software Engineer, Billing Platform

CrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior backend engineer to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud's billing platform, owning metering, pricing, invoicing, and payments end-to-end. Requires 5+ years experience with Go/Java/Rust/C++ and distributed systems.

175k – 220k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Okta

Staff Software Engineer, AI Agentic Experience

OktaBellevue, WA

Staff-level engineer building developer tooling, demo apps, and integrations for AI agents and GenAI authentication at Auth0. Requires strong experience across JS/TS/Python stacks, LLM/agent frameworks, and auth standards.

174k – 238k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
NinjaTrader

Sr. Software Engineer II, Trading Services

NinjaTraderChicago, IL +23

Design, build, and deploy scalable Scala backend systems in Kubernetes for high-performance trading platform. Requires 6+ years experience and strong distributed systems expertise.

140k – 190k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
ZoomInfo

Senior Software Engineer - Workflows

ZoomInfoWaltham, MA

Design and build scalable backend services and workflow orchestration systems using Java, Node.js, Temporal, and Kafka to power complex event-driven processing at scale.

140k – 200k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
PlanetScale

Software Engineer

PlanetScaleUnited States

Design and build the control plane for provisioning, scaling, and healing Neki (sharded PostgreSQL) clusters. Requires 5+ years experience, strong Go proficiency, Kubernetes, and distributed systems expertise.

120k – 290k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
PrizePicks

Senior Back End Engineer

PrizePicksUnited States

Senior backend engineer building and migrating services in Ruby on Rails and Go for PrizePicks' internal Back Office platform. Owns complex features end-to-end, drives microservices migration, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call.

175k – 185k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Cribl

Sr Software Engineer, Edge

CriblUnited States

Senior Software Engineer building and maintaining backend features for Cribl Edge, a multi-platform data collection agent running on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Requires strong OS fundamentals, TypeScript/Node.js experience, Docker/K8s, and cloud platform knowledge.

160k – 210k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pinterest

Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Advertiser and Seller Experience

PinterestSan Francisco, CA +1

Lead high-impact engineering for advertiser and seller platforms at Pinterest, owning cross-team technical delivery and building ML/GenAI-powered ad buying, reporting, and seller experiences.

245k – 429k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Chainguard

Senior Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Senior backend engineer building and evolving customer-facing platform services and public APIs in Go. Owns features end-to-end with Product and frontend teams in a fast-paced remote startup.

157k – 184k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
OpenAI

Backend Software Engineer, API Multicloud

OpenAISan Francisco, CA

Backend engineer building and extending OpenAI's API platform into cloud-native environments like AWS, creating cloud-contained developer products and agentic infrastructure. Requires 7+ years experience and proficiency in backend languages and distributed systems.

293k – 385k/yr
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Nasuni

Senior Software Engineer — File System

NasuniBoston, MA +1

Senior engineer building and operating Nasuni’s distributed file system (Strider/CUFS) in high-performance C/C++. Owns storage subsystems, protocols, snapshots, caching, recovery, and Kubernetes-based HA services.

Salary not listed
Hybrid7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coinbase

Staff Software Engineer

CoinbaseUnited States

Staff Software Engineer on the Financial Engineering team owning multi-year architecture and technical strategy for Coinbase's financial data pipelines, reporting systems, and backend infrastructure in Go.

218k – 257k/yr
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Idme

Software Engineer III

IdmeMountain View, CA

Build and operate a high-throughput Java backend service managing the Trust Graph for identity verification decisions across 152M+ users. Design REST APIs, write complex SQL queries, and own data model evolution for correctness-critical trust infrastructure.

173k – 201k/yr
On-site4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Idme

Staff Software Engineer

IdmeMountain View, CA

Staff Software Engineer leading architecture and technical direction for the Trust Graph service that powers identity verification decisions for 152M+ users across federal, state, and healthcare organizations. Owns API contracts, data models, and cross-team initiatives for a correctness-critical backend platform.

218k – 271k/yr
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Tines

Senior Software Engineer - Government Cloud

TinesUnited States

Senior engineer building and hardening Tines features for AWS GovCloud and federal compliance environments. Focus on security controls, auditability, and abstractions enabling cross-environment development.

Salary not listed
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering