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Latest remote Backend Engineering jobs

Square

Senior Software Engineer, Square Financial Services

SquareSan Francisco, CA

Senior engineer building and operating core banking platform features, public APIs, and financial tooling on AWS with Kotlin. Requires 5+ years experience and a bachelor's degree.

185k – 327k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Docker

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Sandboxes

DockerSeattle, WA

Design and operate scalable, secure cloud sandbox infrastructure powering Docker's agentic platform. Requires 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems, strong Go/Java skills, and deep Kubernetes experience.

170k – 276k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer - Blockchain Network

CoinbaseUnited States

Senior engineer building blockchain network infrastructure and platform APIs that integrate protocols like Bitcoin and Ethereum with Coinbase services. Owns multi-quarter initiatives improving latency, reliability, and cost.

186k – 219k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Skylight

Senior or Staff Back End Engineer, AI Features

SkylightUnited States

Seasoned backend engineer building AI-powered features in Ruby on Rails, integrating with LLMs (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) and owning zero-to-one product initiatives. Requires 6+ years experience shipping products end-to-end.

180k – 240k
Remote6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Staff Software Engineer, Media Experiences

RedditUnited States

Lead technical architecture for Reddit's global media infrastructure, designing scalable systems for video/audio ingestion, processing, and delivery while partnering with ML teams and mentoring engineering groups.

217k – 303k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
6sense

Senior Software Engineer

6senseSan Francisco, CA

Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and distributed architectures. Requires 7+ years of experience with Python/Java and cloud platforms.

191k – 287k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Prompt Health

Senior Healthcare Integrations Software Engineer

Prompt HealthUnited States

Senior engineer building scalable EDI/API healthcare integrations for B2B SaaS. Requires 5+ years experience, strong API skills, and proficiency in PHP or Python.

170k – 200k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Confluent

Staff Software Engineer I

ConfluentUnited States

Staff-level engineer building multi-tenant, highly available storage infrastructure for Tableflow, focusing on table materialization, compaction, and background maintenance at massive scale.

261k – 307k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Presence

RedditUnited States

Senior backend engineer building scalable, distributed systems and APIs for Reddit Pro and Youth Experience products. Requires 5+ years professional experience and expertise in large-scale data systems.

190k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Pindrop

Senior Software Engineer - Authentication

PindropUnited States

Senior backend engineer building and scaling secure, cloud-native authentication services in Go/Python on AWS/GCP. Focus on identity verification, fraud prevention, and integrating AI/ML signals.

130k – 170k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Twilio

Software Engineer, (L2) Audiences & Journeys

TwilioUnited States

Backend Software Engineer building and scaling APIs and distributed systems for Twilio Segment's customer data platform. Requires experience with Go/Java/Python, AWS, Kubernetes, and large-scale async systems.

117k – 172k
RemoteBackend Engineering
ezCater

Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology

ezCaterBoston, MA

Staff Engineer leading architecture and multi-quarter initiatives for ezCater's Finance Technology platform, focusing on payment processing, payouts, invoicing, and tax systems. Requires 8+ years backend experience and deep expertise in payment systems and providers.

184k – 232k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Staff Backend Engineer

RedditUnited States

Lead backend engineering efforts for Reddit's Safety and Moderation tools, driving architecture, technical strategy, and mentoring engineers on a fully remote team. Requires 8+ years experience with Go/Python/Rust/Ruby and API design.

217k – 304k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Airbnb

Senior Staff Engineer, Communication & Connectivity

AirbnbUnited States

Senior technical IC focused on backend architecture and AI technologies for Airbnb's communication and connectivity platform. Partners with senior leaders and contributes code while providing technical leadership across teams.

248k – 310k
Remote12+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

RedditNew York, NY

Senior engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team building and scaling high-throughput APIs and media services. Requires 5+ years with large-scale distributed systems, Golang or Python, and media delivery expertise.

191k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform

RedditChicago, IL +2

Senior engineer on Reddit's Core Platform team building and scaling high-throughput APIs and media services. Requires 5+ years with large-scale distributed systems, Golang or Python experience, and media delivery expertise.

191k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Huntress

Principal Software Engineer, SOC Experience

HuntressUnited States

Principal Software Engineer leading the SOC Experience team building systems for human-led security operations at scale. Focus on investigative workflows, workflow automation, agentic AI capabilities, and operational tooling.

215k – 240k
Remote15+ YOEBackend Engineering
Launchdarkly

Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery

LaunchdarklyUnited States

Backend engineer building and operating real-time flag delivery services at scale. Requires 5+ years production backend experience, strong Go/Java/Rust skills, distributed systems knowledge, and demonstrated AI fluency in engineering work.

146k – 235k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
PostHog

Backend Engineer

PostHogUnited States

Backend engineer building observability products (logs, traces, metrics) that ingest and query petabytes of telemetry data. Owns product areas end-to-end using Node.js, Rust, Kafka, ClickHouse, and similar technologies.

Salary not listed
RemoteBackend Engineering
Upstart

Senior Software Engineer, Identity Platform

UpstartUnited States

Senior backend engineer building and securing authentication, authorization, and experimentation systems for a digital lending platform. Requires 4+ years experience, strong Kotlin/Java skills, and hands-on IAM protocol experience.

153k – 231k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Twilio

Software Engineer L3

TwilioUnited States

Hands-on L3 engineer building and operating high-scale Go-based email delivery systems across AWS and Azure. Focus on distributed systems, IaC with Terraform, observability, and mentoring.

139k – 204k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Clickhouse

Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Authorization Platform

ClickhouseUnited States

Design and build authentication, authorization, and audit platform services including RBAC/ReBAC, token issuance, and SDKs. Requires 4+ years building production backend systems at scale and hands-on experience implementing auth services.

141k – 232k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Fundamental Research Labs

Backend Engineer - Extensions

Fundamental Research LabsUnited States

Develop and productize data science capabilities for enterprise AI platform. Own reliability, performance, and scalability of Extensions backend with focus on distributed workflows and production-grade Python systems.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
6sense

Software Engineer III

6senseSan Francisco, CA

Design, develop, and scale distributed backend systems and APIs using Python or Java. Requires 4+ years of experience building scalable services and microservices on cloud platforms.

148k – 217k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Tailscale

Backend Engineer, Identity

TailscaleUnited States

Backend engineer focused on identity and access management, building authentication features (SSO, OAuth2, SAML, WebAuthn) and SCIM sync capabilities in Go for a distributed systems platform.

163k – 204k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Huntress

Principal Software Engineer, SIEM

HuntressUnited States

Principal Software Engineer leading a feature delivery team to design, develop, and release software for the Huntress SIEM platform. Requires 15+ years experience, 8+ years Ruby on Rails and Postgres scaling.

215k – 240k
Remote15+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Senior Software Engineer, Foundations

UpstartUnited States

Build and scale backend services powering personalized customer communications across SMS, email, push, and emerging channels. Partner with marketing and data teams to deliver real-time messaging, automation, and data-driven engagement systems.

167k – 231k
Remote4+ YOEBackend Engineering
Upstart

Principal Software Engineer, Cash Line

UpstartUnited States

Principal backend engineer building core systems for a new AI-powered revolving credit product. Owns distributed services for underwriting, pricing, transactions, and servicing in a greenfield environment.

183k – 270k
Remote8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Huntress

Staff Software Engineer

HuntressUnited States

Staff-level engineer building and scaling a new Identity Security Posture Management product. Owns technical vision, architecture for petabyte-scale data systems, and mentors junior engineers using Ruby on Rails.

200k – 220k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Huntress

Staff Software Engineer

HuntressUnited States

Staff Software Engineer building and scaling a new Endpoint Security Posture Management platform from the ground up. Focus on Ruby on Rails, data pipelines, and petabyte-scale systems while mentoring junior engineers.

200k – 220k
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Temporal

Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server

TemporalUnited States

Lead design and implementation of server features for a distributed workflow engine. Requires 12+ years building production distributed systems and strong technical leadership.

260k – 325k
Remote12+ YOEBackend Engineering
Tailscale

Software Engineer, Networking

TailscaleUnited States

Build and maintain Tailscale's networking features and distributed systems. Own core networking components, observability, and incident response for a remote-first company.

163k – 226k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Limble

Software Engineer II - Integrations

LimbleCharlotte, NC

Software Engineer II on the Integrations team building and maintaining iPaaS-based integrations and customer-facing APIs. Requires 3+ years experience, Node.js/TypeScript, SQL, and third-party API integration skills.

110k – 165k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Reddit

Senior Software Engineer, Ads

RedditUnited States

Senior backend engineer building microservices, APIs, and real-time data systems for Reddit's advertising platform. Requires 5+ years experience in Go, Python, Scala or similar languages.

191k – 267k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
TheGuarantors

Senior Software Engineer - Customer Integrations

TheGuarantorsUnited States

Senior backend engineer building scalable microservices and developer-facing APIs for third-party integrations. Requires 3+ years backend experience, strong API and SQL skills, cloud/IaC experience, and openness to Go.

140k – 160k
Remote3+ YOEBackend Engineering
Redpanda Data

Senior Software Engineer, Connectors

Redpanda DataUnited States

Senior engineer building and maintaining Redpanda's Go-based Connector ecosystem for cloud streaming services. Focus on AI solutions, distributed systems, resilience, and zero-downtime deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

164k – 235k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Chainguard

Senior Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Senior backend engineer building and scaling Athena, the secure software supply chain clearing house. Own core Go/GCP subsystems handling enterprise data ingestion, validation, and remediation workflows with operational excellence.

157k – 184k
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Aleo

Senior Protocol Engineer

AleoUnited States

Senior Protocol Engineer building privacy-preserving zero-knowledge protocols and distributed systems using Rust. Requires 5+ years engineering experience and 2-3+ years professional Rust experience.

Salary not listed
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Chainguard

Staff Software Engineer

ChainguardUnited States

Own a major domain end-to-end building Athena, the enterprise-scale clearing house for vulnerability data. Design and ship production Go systems on GCP that ingest, deduplicate, and route security signals.

170k – 231k
Remote7+ YOEBackend Engineering
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
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
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
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
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
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
Remote8+ 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
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
Remote8+ 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
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering