Last updated 2026-06-18
213 Backend Engineering jobs in San Francisco ()
Browse 213 Backend Engineering jobs across San Francisco, including Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Software Engineer, and Infrastructure Engineer roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Backend Engineering jobs in San Francisco
Professionals specializing in developing and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of software applications.
Browse Backend Engineering jobs in San Francisco from companies including OpenAI, Simera, Crusoe, Anthropic, Verkada, Lila Sciences, and Gem.
- Common titles include Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Software Engineer, and Infrastructure Engineer.
- Roles span mid, senior, intern, and entry levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, backend software, and back end roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Francisco (193), with openings also in San Mateo (18), Walnut Creek (1), and Foster City (1).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineering jobs near San Francisco ranges around $160,000-$300,000 annually (P25-P75 across 139 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Backend Engineering roles near San Francisco pay a median rate of $250/hr based on 5 postings.
- Explore Backend Engineering salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
Backend Engineering jobs in San Francisco
Professionals specializing in developing and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of software applications.
Browse Backend Engineering jobs in San Francisco from companies including OpenAI, Simera, Crusoe, Anthropic, Verkada, Lila Sciences, and Gem.
- Common titles include Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Backend Engineer, Software Engineer, and Infrastructure Engineer.
- Roles span mid, senior, intern, and entry levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, backend software, and back end roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Francisco (193), with openings also in San Mateo (18), Walnut Creek (1), and Foster City (1).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineering jobs near San Francisco ranges around $160,000-$300,000 annually (P25-P75 across 139 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Backend Engineering roles near San Francisco pay a median rate of $250/hr based on 5 postings.
- Explore Backend Engineering salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
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Back End Developer BR 9
Jun 17
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain back-end services, APIs, and databases Build scalable systems that handle high volumes of re…
You will be responsible for ensuring high performance, scalability, and security of back-end services while integrating with front-end and…
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Back End Developer BR 6Jun 17
San Francisco
senior
Your Background: Experience in Elixir or strong background in other backend or functional programming languages Familiarity with gRPC/Proto…
In this role, you will: Design and implement high-performance backend services in Elixir Architect and evolve microservices and distributed…
Senior Backend Engineer
Jun 15
San Francisco
senior
Full Time
What We're Looking For 6+ years of relevant industry experience building and operating high-throughput backend systems and services.
Advocate for a high bar on backend and engineering quality: reliable, efficient, well-documented, testable, and maintainable.
San Francisco
senior
Full Time
$200k-240k/yr
A track record of building and shipping in fast, ambiguous environments—ideally at an early-stage vertical AI, AI-agent, FDE-style (Palanti…
Hands-on experience with the modern agent stack: prompt engineering at production scale, evaluation frameworks (e.g., Langfuse, Braintrust,…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
$220k-405k/yr
Strong system design skills, with a track record of building efficient, reliable, and scalable architectures, ideally including API integra…
Qualifications Experience designing and building backend systems that run in production (typically 4+ years for mid-level, more for senior…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
$148.5k-223.9k/yr
This role requires a strong backend developer who will play a pivotal role in maintaining our core execution engines, handling…
Required Skills: 5 + years of industry experience In software engineering, with a proven track record as a core backend…
Software Engineering Intern
Jun 13
San Francisco
intern
What You'll Do Ship product features end to end on our live customer platform alongside senior engineers Build and test…
The Role We're looking for Software Engineering Interns to join our San Francisco team and build real features on our…
San Francisco
senior
Role Overview We are looking for a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our core engineering team…
Work at the core of a revenue-critical system — our bidding engine is not a side project; it is the…
San Francisco
mid
$405k/yr
We're looking for a Staff Engineer to be a technical lead for Inference Runtime: the team that owns the shared,…
You'll pair with the team's Engineering Manager, who owns hiring and people development, while you own the technical roadmap and…
AI Platform Engineer
Jun 12
San Mateo
mid
Full Time
$170k-205k/yr
Experience with ML/AI platforms, agents, or orchestration frameworks. #.
Role Summary: Notable builds AI-driven automation for healthcare.
San Francisco
mid
$194k/yr
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join our fast-growing team with a focus on scalability, reliability, and…
The Staff Software Engineer Opportunity We're looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer who wants to work on hard problems:…
San Mateo
senior
$243.3k/yr
Help recruit future talent and mentor engineers for the team You have: Fluent in backend software development Proficient in Microsoft…
As a Senior Software Engineer, Communications, you’ll be in charge of building rich, immersive and engaging user communication experiences…
San Francisco
senior
$190k-250k/yr
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to act as the technical anchor for a small, focused team working…
Qualities that will help you thrive in this role are: 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong…
Lead Backend Engineer
Jun 11
San Francisco
senior
$172.5k/yr
Lead backend development and support of services across backend (Java/Spring Cloud) and integration platforms (Mulesoft and others) Utilize…
To be successful in this role, you'll need: Experience: 10+ years as a Backend Engineer Backend Engineering: Strong proficiency in…
San Francisco
mid
$162k-260k/yr
We are looking for a Software Engineer to partner with our Mapping team to deliver stable, fast, scalable solutions for…
In this role you will: Design, develop, and maintain the scalable backend infrastructure and data processing pipeline for storing and…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
Weak fit: backend engineer who’s only built systems where users don’t wait in real time (overnight jobs, reports, dashboards).
Tech stack you’ll work in: Languages: TypeScript on Node.js (primary).
San Mateo
mid
Full Time
$200k/yr
About the Role From a technical perspective, the embedded software stack runs on an x86-based platform, necessitating work on: UEFI,…
What You Bring BS/MS in Computer Science (or similar degree) 5+ years of experience of software development for Linux in…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
$160k-220k/yr
As a Infrastructure Software Engineer, you will leverage a variety of technologies to scale our platform, enabling secure connections to…
About you Deep understanding of architecture and scaling for large-scale software systems Proven experience in building cloud-based network…
Software Engineer - Compiler
Jun 10
San Francisco
mid
$170k-235k/yr
What You Will Be Doing Tackle core challenges at the intersection of data modeling, query compilation, and large-scale interactive analytic…
The Compiler Team plays a foundational role in this mission by transforming user-driven spreadsheet interactions into highly optimized SQL…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
Experience building developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, excellent technical communication, and the ability to shape architectures…
It’s a strong fit for engineers who have built developer tools, especially AI-powered tools, communicate clearly across technical boundarie…
San Francisco
senior
$130.2k-195.3k/yr
Summary The Applied Intelligence Data Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer specializing in large-scale, real-time data streami…
Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with Data Engineers to integrate streaming systems with batch pipelines and data platforms.
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Senior Software EngineerMar 28
San Francisco
senior
Full Time
Your work will be at the intersection of scale and usability: designing opinionated backend systems and interfaces that accelerate downstre…
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for and lead technical discussions, especially during design and code reviews.
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Senior Backend EngineerMay 28
Backend Engineer
Jun 9
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
$120k-180k/yr
Day to day, you will be a part of the engineering team of frontend and backend engineers working in an…
You will primarily be responsible for developing backend software capabilities, but the ideal candidate can contribute across backend softw…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
As Engineering Manager of the Runtime Fabrics team, you will lead this work, setting technical direction, growing a world-class team…
REQUIREMENTS Proven experience managing and growing engineering teams in a systems, infrastructure, or low-level runtime context.
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain high-performance server applications in C/C++ and Rust.
Strong proficiency in C/C++ or Rust.
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