Last updated 2026-06-18
202 Backend Engineer jobs in San Jose ()
Browse 202 Backend Engineer jobs across San Jose, including Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, and Software Engineer II roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Backend Engineer jobs in San Jose
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in San Jose from companies including Walmart, Apple, Adobe, Snowflake, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Robinhood, and Waymo.
- Common titles include Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, and Software Engineer II.
- Roles span mid, entry, senior, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, software development, and engineer software roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Jose (50), with openings also in Palo Alto (49), Mountain View (38), Sunnyvale (21), and Santa Clara (20).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near San Jose ranges around $146,000-$275,750 annually (P25-P75 across 179 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
Backend Engineer jobs in San Jose
Browse Backend Engineer jobs in San Jose from companies including Walmart, Apple, Adobe, Snowflake, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Robinhood, and Waymo.
- Common titles include Software Engineer, Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, and Software Engineer II.
- Roles span mid, entry, senior, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, software development, and engineer software roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Jose (50), with openings also in Palo Alto (49), Mountain View (38), Sunnyvale (21), and Santa Clara (20).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineer jobs near San Jose ranges around $146,000-$275,750 annually (P25-P75 across 179 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineer salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
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Mountain View
mid
As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams…
Collaborate across Ads teams to understand client teams' needs, identify opportunities, and deliver impact.
Santa Clara
mid
As we expand at a tremendous rate, we are looking for innovative engineers with a passion for data, search, analytics…
Continually challenge what exists and explore what should be changed to best meet evolving customer needs Possess expert knowledge in…
Cupertino
senior
Careers at Apple Work at Apple Life at Apple Profile Sign In Search Back to search results Senior Software Engineer…
Partner with Mobile, Web, Design, Security, Trust & Safety, and other functions to build world-class messaging products.
Mountain View
entry
Full Time
$125.7k-194.8k/yr
Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting…
Job Description Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influ…
Santa Clara
entry
$126k-204.5k/yr
Operate production services with hundreds of enterprise customers as a true owner, ensuring that Prisma AIRS customers experience top-notch…
Preferred Qualifications Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Grafana Experience using AI tools to aid design and development.
Palo Alto
senior
$160k-260k/yr
What you'll be doing: Leading initiatives to design, build, and optimize backend services and platform infrastructure for the Aptos blockch…
About The Role We're looking for a talented, driven Senior Software Engineer to build the critical infrastructure that powers the…
San Jose
senior
Full Time
$199k-278.5k/yr
Senior Software Development Engineer Expedia Technology teams partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and t…
Expert proficiency in Java, Kotlin, GraphQL, grpc, Spring boot Strong experience building distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and microservi…
Palo Alto
senior
Full Time
Strong knowledge of agent development, evaluations Fluency in at least one mainstream backend language (Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, etc.).
The Role You'll design, build, and ship core systems that power our AI platform.
Menlo Park
senior
Full Time
$264k-379.5k/yr
Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience are highly preferred but not required A track record of recruiting and lea…
A core part of the Database Engineering group is the Query Language team which is responsible for designing, developing, and…
Palo Alto
senior
Full Time
Own Backend Logic End-to-End: Drive database modeling (SQL/NoSQL), API design, performance tuning, and production reliability for high-traf…
What You'll Do Architect Distributed Systems: Build scalable backend, infrastructure, and agentic services for Pika’s web, mobile, and mult…
Santa Clara
senior
$170k-277k/yr
As a Sr Principal Software Engineer (Backend-Focused), you will be the primary technical leader responsible for architecting and modernizin…
Lead the design and implementation of highly resilient, distributed backend services (Go, Python, C++), prioritizing deep backend architect…
Staff Database Engineer
Jun 15
San Jose
mid
Full Time
$176.5k-262.4k/yr
As a Staff Database Engineer on the Data Platforms team, you will partner closely with engineering leadership to prioritize initiatives…
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications: Infrastructure as code (AWS CLI, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) Ex…
San Jose
mid
Full Time
$92.1k-136k/yr
Your Impact As a passionate software engineer, you bring expertise in developing scalable backend systems, designing robust analytics platf…
You will join teams focused on developing advanced data pipelines, machine learning infrastructure, and analytics platforms for business-cr…
Palo Alto
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…
Software Engineer II
Jun 14
Sunnyvale
entry
Strong adherence to SLDC process and Scrum/agile methodologies Work with Java, Multithreading, Data Structures, Algorithm, Design Patterns…
What you'll bring: 1+ years of experience in Java technologies, Distributed systems and large-scale application development and design.
Santa Clara
senior
Full Time
We are looking for a Senior Software Architect who has deep expertise in designing server platforms and has added understanding…
Data Center SW team architects and develops the end to end software and firmware stack for these systems.
Staff Software Engineer
Jun 12
Mountain View
mid
$189k-303k/yr
Partnering closely with Software, Hardware and infrastructure engineering teams.
Experience with building large scale, high concurrent, high throughput and safety critical backend services.
Sunnyvale
senior
Full Time
$140k-215k/yr
Be mentored and mentor other developers on web, backend and data storage technologies and our system.
About the Role: You’ll be joining the cloud backend team in the Platform product group responsible for managing the customer…
Software Engineer
Jun 12
Santa Clara
entry
Full Time
Architect and implement backend services using modern programming frameworks to support real-time data processing, task orchestration, syst…
Participate in system design reviews and cross-functional technical discussions to translate product and engineering requirements into robu…
Senior Agentic AI Engineer
Jun 12
Palo Alto
senior
Passionate about continuous learning and turning ambitious AI ideas into production-grade solutions.
SAP Ecosystem (a strong plus): Experience developing on SAP BTP / SAP Build / Joule or working with SAP AI…
Software Engineer
Jun 11
Milpitas
mid
Open to adopting AI-assisted engineering practices ("vibe coding") to improve productivity and code quality.
Solid programming fundamentals; experienced with C++, Go, or any other major programming language.
Sunnyvale
senior
$182k-242k/yr
What You’ll Do: The Applications Engineering team in the Data Infrastructure organization builds AI-native analytics platforms and first-pa…
Who You Are: 7+ years of experience building production-grade software applications, including both backend services and modern web fronten…
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Sr. Engineer, StorageApr 14
Mountain View
mid
Full Time
$251k-310k/yr
Experience developing backend systems for video/image rendering, WebRTC, or developer tools.
Experience leading technical designs and mentoring engineers on complex, multi-quarter projects.
Sunnyvale
entry
Full Time
$90k-125k/yr
Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and product teams to build scalable backend systems and AI-powered capabilities.
Working alongside experienced engineers, researchers, and security experts, you will help transform cutting-edge AI research into productio…
Staff Backend Engineer
Jun 11
Mountain View
mid
Full Time
$200k-250k/yr
We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft user-friendly, responsive, and secure interfaces that operate…
About the Role At Commure, our engineering team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building and scaling…
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Senior Backend Engineer, RCMApr 21
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