Last updated 2026-06-23

255 Remote Backend Engineering Jobs in the United States ()

Browse 255 remote Backend Engineering jobs across the United States, including Senior Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Backend Engineer, and Staff Backend Engineer roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.

Backend Engineering jobs in the United States

Professionals specializing in developing and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of software applications.

Browse Backend Engineering jobs in the United States from companies including Abbott Laboratories, Chainguard, OpenAI, Plaid, ClickUp, ClickHouse, and Persona.

  • Common titles include Senior Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend, Backend Engineer, and Staff Backend Engineer.
  • Roles span senior, mid, entry, and intern levels.
  • Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, backend software, full stack, and ai engineer roles.
  • Reported pay for remote Backend Engineering jobs in the United States ranges around $135,990-$250,000 annually (P25-P75 across 136 postings that disclosed pay).
  • Explore remote Backend Engineering salaries in Salary Explorer.

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Vic.ai

Remote United States senior Full Time
Experience building and operating scalable backend services and APIs. Mentor engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
Remote United States mid Full Time $116.3k-145.4k/yr
Role Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Backend Cloud Engineer proficient in Java and Kotlin to join the Connectivity… In this role, you will work on cutting-edge systems—managing a diverse ecosystem of both container-orchestrated workloads on Kubernetes and…

TeamSnap

Remote United States mid Full Time
We are looking for a hands-on Staff Backend Engineer who can build and improve APIs and services, reason through production… Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Data, Support, and other teams to turn roadmap needs into durable back…

Fathom

Remote United States entry Full Time
ROLE OVERVIEW We are looking for a backend engineer who is passionate about improving reliability, scalability, and efficiency of mission-c… By 1 Year Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our…

Aigent Energy

Remote United States mid
About the role AGent is seeking an exceptional Cloud Backend & Infrastructure Engineer to architect and operate the mission-critical AWS… Engineer, Cloud Backend & Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud Backend & Infrastructure About Aigent Energy AGent is building the leading softwar…

StackAI

Remote United States mid Full Time
We're hiring a Platform Engineer, APIs & Observability to own both: the public API the ecosystem builds on, and the… What we're looking for 4+ years building backend services and public APIs in production.

Tailscale

Remote United States mid Full Time $163k/yr
Key Responsibilities Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components Develop… You will work as part of the engineering team to: Develop the Tailscale product, contributing to both open source client…

Twilio

Remote United States mid
As a Staff Software Engineer (P4), you will be a key technical leader for a platform that processes millions of… *Required: 12+ years of experience designing and developing highly available, high scale, secure, mission-critical cloud native enterprise…

Planet

Remote United States mid $136k/yr
Experience of cloud-native development - containerization, cloud services such as GCP/AWS Experience with a large shared codebase, continuo… Ideal candidates are pragmatic software engineers who apply sound engineering principles and operational discipline to large backend data s…

Life360

Remote United States senior $118.5k-216.5k/yr
Nice-to-Have Experience building or operating experimentation, A/B testing platforms or feature-flagging systems Experience supporting reco… About the Job Life360 is hiring a backend AI-Native Senior Software Engineer II — a senior engineer who doesn’t just…

Affirm

Remote United States mid
You will work on systems that sit directly on the critical path of every card transaction, collaborating closely with product… What You'll Do With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into…
Remote United States mid $230k/yr
Staff Software Engineer - Platform (Remote anywhere in USA Only) ***US Citizenship or Greencard is required due to US Government… Deep experience building platform infrastructure and backend systems that serve multiple products and engineering teams.

Astronomer

Remote United States senior Full Time
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. Be at the forefront of how we work together as a Platform Engineering team.

Imprint

Remote United States mid Full Time $140k-200k/yr
Your Profile 5+ years of experience building production backend systems (fintech experience a plus) You've built services that handle real… Work across a wide cross-functional surface : product, design, infrastructure, compliance, solutions engineering, and brand partners.

Conversica

Remote United States mid Full Time
You will shape platform architecture across multiple teams, set engineering standards that the broader backend organization adopts, and dri… Qualifications and Experience Equivalent of 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with significant focus on backend plat…

ProNexus

Remote United States intern Full Time
We’re looking for a Gen AI/Backend Software Engineer Intern (Python) who wants to ship production code, learn fast, and take… What you’ll do Build and ship backend features end-to-end (API → DB → integrations).

Synack

Remote United States senior $145k-250k/yr
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (AI), where you'll take a hands-on lead in designing and building cutting-edge,… Actively contribute to and drive the design and implementation of AI-enabled systems, promoting effective SDLC processes.

Cribl

Remote United States mid $205k/yr
Develop the CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling for storage services — safe rollouts, canary deployments, automated rollback. Strong software engineering skills in TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or similar languages — you write controllers, operators, and automation, not…

Anyscale

Remote United States senior Full Time
About the role: Anyscale is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. Handle container image management and dependency resolution for distributed workloads Participate in code reviews, design and architecture…

Airwallex

Remote United States senior Full Time $150k-245k/yr
About the Role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll design the backbone of our intelligent finance systems: scalable services, resilient… Passion for building the backend that powers intelligent products.
Remote United States senior Full Time $125k-142k/yr
Your Role As a Senior Software Engineer, AI & Backend, you'll design and scale the cloud platform that connects tens… Expert-level Python and backend engineering, with a track record of scalable production services.

McGraw Hill LLC.

Remote United States mid Full Time $94.0k-135k/yr
Your Impact on the Team We're looking for a Software Engineer II — AI to join our AI Platform team. Get good at AI engineering — the software side.

OpenTeams

Remote United States senior
We are seeking a hands-on Founding Lead Engineer / Principal Systems Architect to work directly with the concept architect and… Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, and secure cloud or private infrastructure deployment.

Chainguard

Remote United States senior $157k/yr
Senior Software Engineer Remote — US, Canada, UK Chainguard is building the secure software supply chain, the infrastructure underneath the… What we're looking for Solid backend engineering foundation you've shipped and maintained production systems Strong Go engineering skills;…

Openly

Remote United States senior Full Time $145.6k/yr
Job Details We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to be a part of one of our core teams building the… Our stack Backend : Go & Postgresql Frontend: Browser-based, VueJS, Webpack, Nuxt &, Tailwind Research/Data Science: R, ArcGIS, Jupyter Not…
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