249 back end engineer jobs at 87 companies in Santa Cruz, CA
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
$170k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
4+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE, 4+ years industry experience, mastery of Python or Go, experience with Postgres/MySQL, Redis/Memcached, Kafka, cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure), gRPC, React, strong communication skills, onsite 5 days/week.
Python, Go, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure, React, GRPC
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Java Back end Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
$100k-$115k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOERequires 8–12 years in back-end application development, strong Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST API, SQL, and Git experience, plus Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD, debugging, and collaboration skills.
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST APIs, SQL, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, CI/CD
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Backend Engineer, AI Systems
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$177k-$195k/yr OnsiteFull Time
GFiber: An Alphabet providing fiber and webpass internet services to homes and businesses.
5+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent experience, 5+ years software development, Python, GCP, microservices, REST APIs, production support, and practical experience with LLMs/AI agents and RAG/MCP pipelines.
Python, RAG, Model Context Protocol (MCP), RESTful APIs, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run, Google Cloud Observability (Stackdriver), OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AntiGravity, Claude, Cursor, Java, Kotlin
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Backend Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building high-performance backend systems; Kubernetes expertise; SaaS focus; cloud infrastructure and security; leadership and mentoring; strong communication.
Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, CI/CD
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Backend Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Production systems, distributed infra, sandboxing; Python; cloud experience; collaboration with research teams; strong reliability mindset.
Python, Go, Rust, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS, CLI
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Sr. Backend Engineer
New York or Sunnyvale or Berkeley Heights or Alpharetta
$128k-$216k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent,10+ years software engineering,Java/JVM and Spring Boot expertise,cloud-native/Kubernetes and Terraform experience,SQL/NoSQL schema design,REST API architecture,mentorship and on-call experience.
Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Terraform, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT
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Lead Backend Engineer
Redwood City, California, United States
HybridFull Time
6+ YOEStrong backend engineering experience designing APIs, microservices, and data models; experience with cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), gRPC/protobuf/GraphQL, relational databases, Rust-based services; 6+ years preferred; strong communication and leadership potential.
Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, gRPC, protobuf, GraphQL, React Native, iOS, Android
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Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Mountain View, California, United States
RemoteFull Time
10+ years cloud DevOps/SRE, IaC, Kubernetes; cloud providers AWS/Azure/GCP; IaC tooling Terraform; strong leadership and collaboration; hands-on infra engineering.
CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Python, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
Mountain View or San Francisco or New York City
$170k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Professional software development experience; strong backend skills with Python and web frameworks; experience with containers and cloud (Docker, Kubernetes); production systems, alerting, metrics, and SRE practices; leadership and customer-facing experience.
Python, Flask, Django, FastAPIs, Docker, Kubernetes, LLMs, EHRs
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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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Senior Backend Engineer
Redwood City, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOERequires 6+ years of production software experience, 2+ years at a seed-to-Series B startup, backend/data expertise, live schema migrations, queues, APIs, and strong communication.
TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Claude Code
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Java Backend Engineer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$75k-$113k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5–7 years of enterprise Java development, including Java 18+, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, REST APIs, SQL, NoSQL or Cosmos DB, microservices, and cloud experience.
Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, Microsoft Azure, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Hibernate, JPA, REST APIs, CI/CD
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Senior Backend Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
$190k-$240k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years building and operating production backend systems; strong Node.js/TypeScript skills, API design (GraphQL/REST), relational databases, cloud, containers, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and security.
Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, NestJS, Next.js, React, Kafka, MQTT
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Backend Software Engineer - Platforms
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOEBS in CS or equivalent; experience with web apps, Unix/Linux, distributed systems, networking; DICM/ITOM/ITSM experience; GPU or big data (Hadoop/Kafka/Apache) preferred; Golang or Python experience.
Golang, Python, Unix, Linux, Hadoop, Kafka, Apache, GPU
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Lead Backend Software Engineer
San Carlos, California, United States
$185k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5+ years designing production backend services, APIs, and distributed systems; Python and JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency; experience with infrastructure, data pipelines, scalability, reliability, and end-to-end ownership.
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
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Java Backend Developer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$90k-$102k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years Java development experience with Springboot and microservices, strong backend and commerce domain skills, mentoring and CI/CD experience, database and API proficiency.
Java, Springboot, RESTful APIs
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Java Backend Developer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$90k-$102k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years software development experience with Java and Springboot microservices, commerce architecture, RESTful APIs, databases, testing, CI/CD, and strong communication.
Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful APIs
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Java Backend Developer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$90k-$102k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years professional Java development experience with Springboot microservices, commerce domain experience preferred, strong testing, database, and communication skills.
Java, Springboot, Microservices, RESTful APIs, NoSQL
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Backend Engineer Graduate (User Growth) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California, United States
$128k-$256k/yr OnsiteFull Time
0+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related, familiarity with Golang/Python/Java/C++, backend and distributed systems, databases and cloud-native components (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes), strong communication and problem-solving.
Golang, Python, Java, C++, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, LLM
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Senior Backend Engineer - Java
United States or Tampa or Boston or Atlanta or New York City or Columbus or Chicago or Philadelphia or Raleigh or Charlotte or Minneapolis or Dallas or Washington D.C. or Austin or Miami or Newark
$152k-$194k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years experience with Java/Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, relational databases; experience designing event-driven microservices, strong testing practices, AI-assisted development familiarity, BA/BS or equivalent.
Java 17, Java 21, Spring Boot 3.x, JPA/Hibernate 6, Postgres, Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, OpenSearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, TeamCity, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Model Context Protocol (MCP), GitHub, SonarQube
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