Last updated 2026-06-18
150 Backend Engineering jobs in San Jose ()
Browse 150 Backend Engineering jobs across San Jose, including Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, Staff Server Software Engineer, and Senior Backend Engineer roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Backend Engineering jobs in San Jose
Professionals specializing in developing and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of software applications.
Browse Backend Engineering jobs in San Jose from companies including Google, Snowflake, Apple, NVIDIA Corporation, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Walmart, and Illumio.
- Common titles include Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, Staff Server Software Engineer, and Senior Backend Engineer.
- Roles span entry, senior, mid, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, software development, and software engineering roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Jose (29), with openings also in Palo Alto (29), Mountain View (26), Sunnyvale (25), and Santa Clara (22).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineering jobs near San Jose ranges around $147,000-$284,000 annually (P25-P75 across 141 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineering salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
Backend Engineering jobs in San Jose
Professionals specializing in developing and maintaining the server-side logic and infrastructure of software applications.
Browse Backend Engineering jobs in San Jose from companies including Google, Snowflake, Apple, NVIDIA Corporation, Palo Alto Networks, Inc., Walmart, and Illumio.
- Common titles include Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, Staff Server Software Engineer, and Senior Backend Engineer.
- Roles span entry, senior, mid, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include software engineer, backend engineer, member of, software development, and software engineering roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Jose (29), with openings also in Palo Alto (29), Mountain View (26), Sunnyvale (25), and Santa Clara (22).
- Reported pay for Backend Engineering jobs near San Jose ranges around $147,000-$284,000 annually (P25-P75 across 141 postings that disclosed pay).
- Explore Backend Engineering salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
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San Jose
entry
Preferred qualifications: Experience in Game Engine Development.
As a software developer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams…
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.
Sunnyvale
mid
A day in the life Software Development Engineer at Amazon Leo work on designing networking features with various stakeholders, implementing…
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…
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
$128k-184k/yr
If you have a passion to make developers highly productive and a knack for using the latest AI advancements to…
We use the latest AI technologies to solve Snowflake’s engineering problems.
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…
Sunnyvale
senior
Full Time
$170k-196k/yr
Member of Technical Staff Company: Illumio Onwards Together!
Master’s degree a plus 8+ years building distributed & scalable software and systems Passion for software development, willing to constantl…
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Sr. Staff EngineerApr 29
Principal Software Engineer
Jun 16
Santa Clara
senior
$147k-237.5k/yr
Job Summary We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our high-impact engineering team.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.
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…
Santa Clara
senior
Full Time
What you'll be doing: Develop and maintain distributed, robust and scalable Go programs deployed to Kubernetes environments that manage lar…
5+ years of meaningful industry experience with a strong Go and Kubernetes development background User space development and debugging expe…
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 12
Mountain View
senior
Full Time
$119.8k-234.7k/yr
Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, sec…
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Software Engineering, CoreAIApr 29
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…
Santa Clara
senior
Full Time
Experience with GPU computing, distributed systems, ML infrastructure, or high-performance model serving. *.
The team partners closely with Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, SGLang, benchmarking, and platform teams to translate sophisticated performance…
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
mid
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to pioneer this frontier—not building foundation models from scratch, but expertly integrating GenAI…
Strong experience designing APIs and service architectures that integrate with AI/ML components .
Sunnyvale
senior
Full Time
$177k-211k/yr
About the Role: Matterport is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team.
Matterport - Senior Software Engineer Job Description CoStar Group (CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real…
Sunnyvale
senior
$139k-204k/yr
What You’ll Do: We’re looking for a Senior Storage Engineer, Control Plane to play a key role in designing, building,…
This role involves close collaboration with teams across infrastructure, compute, and platform to ensure our storage services scale automat…
Cupertino
mid
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CI/CD & DevEx: Experience building automated, containerized deployment pipelines (GitHub or ArgoCD) with an emphasis on keeping developer f…
Principal Software Engineer
Jun 10
San Jose
senior
Full Time
$203.2k-304.8k/yr
Strong coding proficiency in C/C++/Golang, with a proven track record of leading complex software development efforts.
Qualifications 14+ years of software engineering experience, with 10+ years in designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.
Sunnyvale
mid
Full Time
$136.5k-276.5k/yr
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Wired Assurance team, you will design, develop, and maintain cloud-based services that support…
Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain features for cloud-native Wired Assurance platform.
Palo Alto
senior
Full Time
$175k-240k/yr
As a Beam Planning Software and Network Software Engineer on the Starlink program, you will be solving challenges that improve…
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: Knowledgeable in real-time rendering, game engine development, physics simulation, or other real-time, res…
San Jose
senior
Full Time
$189k/yr
Solid command of development tooling, including agentic coding, GitHub and Jira.
Analyze and optimize LLM and agentic AI workloads across the full software stack, identifying opportunities for hardware-aware acceleration.
Palo Alto
mid
$192k-345k/yr
Staff Software Engineer – Database Infrastructure About Us Nu is one of the largest digital financial platforms in the world,…
As a Staff Software Engineer – Foundation , you will be a senior technical leader working mostly across Datomic, provisioning…
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Staff Software EngineerMar 25
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