98 ai backend engineer jobs at 60 companies in Seattle, WA
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Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platform
Boston or San Francisco or Seattle or Dallas or Salt Lake City or Portland or United States
$122k-$146k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Software Engineering, 5–8 years software engineering experience; expertise in backend Java/C# (SpringBoot), REST/gRPC, SQL; experience building scalable distributed systems and AI/LLM-driven services.
Java, C#, SpringBoot, REST, gRPC, ODATA, SQL, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, Python, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, Milvus
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Senior Backend Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
$160k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOE4+ years software engineering experience, strong engineering fundamentals, autonomy, and ability to build reliable, low-latency backend systems for voice and AI pipelines.
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Backend Engineer, Flag Delivery
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
Go, Java, Rust
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Backend Engineer
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Experience building production services, observability, API and control-plane design, API-first infrastructure, incident response/pager duty, and familiarity with AI tooling and distributed systems.
LLM APIs, MCP servers, Claude Code, Cursor, Prometheus, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Temporal, Cadence, BMC/Redfish, Go, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Rippling AI
San Francisco or New York or Seattle
$168k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience; expertise in platform and distributed systems; strong hands-on coding; experience owning end-to-end technical initiatives; experience with AI agents is a plus.
Slack, Microsoft 365
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Backend Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure for SDLC - Engineering Efficiency
Seattle, Washington, United States
$148k-$301k/yr OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related,2+ years backend development,proficiency in Go/Java/Python,experience with distributed systems,databases/caching/messaging,LLM/AI integration experience,strong communication and ownership.
Go, Java, Python, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, CI/CD, LLM, RAG
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Staff Backend Engineer (Streaming and AI Infrastructure)
Mountain View or Seattle
$152k-$282k/yr HybridFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's in CS/EE/Math; 4+ years backend development; Java and Spring; AWS; distributed systems experience.
Java, Spring Framework, AWS, Cassandra, TiDB, DynamoDB, Kafka, SQS, JVM tuning
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Backend Software Development Engineer II
Seattle, Washington, United States
$119k-$167k/yr OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent,2+ years software engineering experience,ownership of services end-to-end,proficiency in modern programming languages,systems design and production operations experience,foundational AI/ML familiarity.
Java, Scala, Kotlin, CI/CD, AI/ML
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Software Engineer, Back-End
San Francisco or Seattle
$164k-$284k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years back-end development, production systems at scale, cloud platforms, AI-powered systems, APIs, CI/CD, real-time architectures, independent and collaborative work.
Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Real-time systems
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Backend Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Colab, Cloud AI
Kirkland, Washington, United States
$207k-$301k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years programming experience (C++, Golang, Rust), 5+ years testing/launching software, 5+ years building large-scale distributed systems, 3+ years software design experience, Bachelor's degree or equivalent, EMR not mentioned.
C++, Golang, Rust, Jupyter
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Software Engineer, Backend, Level 5 – Ads Delivery
Bellevue or Los Angeles
$178k-$313k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent; 6+ years post-Bachelor’s software development experience; experience with distributed systems, large-scale backend services, Java/C++/Python, NoSQL, Redis/Memcache, Kubernetes, cloud services, and operating highly-available systems.
Java, C++, Python, NoSQL, Memcache, Redis, Kubernetes, Google services, AWS services, AI tools
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Staff Software Engineer – AI Backend & Agent Frameworks
Bellevue, Washington, United States
$127k-$211k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend/distributed systems experience; proficiency in Python and one of Java/C++/Go; experience with microservices, APIs, AI/ML production systems, containers, and CI/CD.
Python, Java, C++, Go, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, SCADA, Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU)
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend
New York City or Seattle
$131k-$285k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years of industry experience; computer science degree or equivalent; backend development, architecture, REST APIs, testing, SQL/NoSQL databases, scalability, and AI coding tool proficiency.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, HTTP, REST, SQL, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Gem, Covey, Microsoft?
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Software Engineer II, Backend
San Francisco or Seattle
$124k-$255k/yr RemoteFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's degree in computer science or related field, 2+ years of backend development, distributed systems experience, and proficiency in Python, Java, C++, Go, or similar languages.
RESTful API, Python, Java, C++, Go, AI
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Software Engineer, Backend, Level 5
Santa Monica or Los Angeles or New York City or Bellevue or Seattle or San Francisco or Palo Alto
$209k-$313k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software development experience; bachelor’s or equivalent; experience with distributed systems, backend services, Java/C++/Python, NoSQL, caching, Kubernetes, and cloud services.
Java, C++, Python, NoSQL, Memcache, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, AWS, AI tools
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AI Engineer
Seattle or San Jose
$166k-$248k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering with recent ML/AI production experience; strong full-stack and backend skills; expertise in Python, Java, React/Next.js, MLOps, cloud (AWS/Azure), CI/CD, IaC, containers, and observability.
React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Postgres, DynamoDB, Aurora, Kinesis, S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, Microsoft Cosmos DB, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, Selenium, Cucumber, Solace, Kafka, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, GitHub Actions, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Terraform, Microsoft Bicep, Microsoft ARM, Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, Salesforce Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, Coveo, Spark, Databricks, SQL, MLOps
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Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Seattle or Bellevue or United States or San Francisco Bay Area
HybridFull Time
Stealth AI Startup: Building infrastructure to deploy and manage enterprise AI applications.
5+ YOE5+ years engineering experience, AI/ML infrastructure or MLOps expertise, cloud-native systems knowledge, Python and a systems or backend language, debugging ability, and strong customer-facing communication.
Python, Kubernetes
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AI Engineer - Agent
Seattle, Washington, United States
$152k-$332k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years in AI/ML or backend/distributed systems; experience building production-grade AI/agent systems; strong programming in Python/TypeScript/Go/Java/C++/Rust; cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD experience; degree in CS/AI/ML or related field.
Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, C++, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Claude Code, Codex, BrightHire
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Staff AI Security Engineer
Bellevue or Chicago or New York City or San Francisco or Washington
$161k-$248k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years in security engineering or backend development, expertise in AI threat landscape, strong coding in Python or Go, cloud (AWS/GCP) experience, and leadership/mentorship ability.
Python, Go, LangChain, Strands, Claude Agent SDK, AWS, GCP, OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF
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Senior/Software Engineer II - Backend
Redmond, Washington, United States
$102k-$261k/yr HybridFull Time
2+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related and 2+ years engineering experience (or equivalent); coding in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python; cloud and secure systems experience; must pass Microsoft security screening.
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, AWS, GCP, CI/CD, AI/ML
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