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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Own the crawlers, pipelines, and infrastructure powering a real-time job search engine. Strong Node.js and Python fundamentals; bonus points for security and reverse-engineering chops.
Node.js, Python, Elasticsearch, Redis
Help us #BeatIndeed & #BeatLinkedIn
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Backend engineer
San Jose, California, United States
$150k-$200k/yr RemoteFull Time
Protocol Nine
Protocol Nine: Building AI-native security infrastructure for threat detection and response.
4+ YOE4+ years building backend or distributed systems; strong in Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript; experience operating production systems and building APIs/integrations.
Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, REST
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Backend Infrastructure Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States
$165k-$180k/yr HybridFull Time
Vinci
Vinci: AI software for rapid hardware design and physics simulation.
8+ YOE8+ years software engineering experience focused on backend and infrastructure. Hands-on Terraform and major cloud experience, CI/CD (Jenkins), build systems (CMake,pip/uv), Python and C++ proficiency, production platform experience.
Terraform, GCP, AWS, Azure, Jenkins, CMake, pip, uv, Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, NumPy, CUDA
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Senior Backend Engineer - Virtual Guard
San Mateo, California, United States
$130k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience; distributed systems, event-driven architectures, scalable APIs; real-time data pipelines; cloud and edge; Go or Python; Kafka, Temporal, Postgres; strong ownership.
Go, Python, Kafka, Temporal, Postgres, Cloud
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Engineer, Backend
San Mateo, California, United States
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Bedrock Data
Bedrock Data: AI-native data security and governance platform for enterprise environments.
Backend engineer with experience designing scalable services; strong problem-solving; entrepreneurial mindset.
Golang, Python, Node, AWS, Neo4j, SQL
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Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
Mountain View or San Francisco or New York City
$170k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Commure
Commure: AI-powered software platform for healthcare workflow and administrative automation.
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
Mountain View, California, United States
HybridFull Time
Bespoke Labs
Bespoke Labs: Curating data and environments to train advanced AI agents.
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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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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Senior Backend Engineer, TikTok BRIC ML Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
$213k-$388k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
Senior-level experience building large-scale backend and ML infrastructure; proficiency in Go, C/C++, Java or Python; experience with distributed systems and risk/anti-abuse domains preferred; strong communication and problem-solving.
Go, C/C++, Java, Python
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Principal Backend Engineer - Core Infrastructure
Santa Clara, California, United States
$212k-$318k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Qualcomm
QualcommNASDAQ: QCOM: Designs and manufactures semiconductors and wireless telecommunications products.
6+ YOEAdvanced software engineering experience (6+ years), proficiency in backend languages (Go, Java, Python, C/C++), cloud platforms, containerization, distributed systems, and API design; BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field.
C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Git, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
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Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic
Palo Alto, California, United States
$350k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Inflection AI
Inflection AI: Develops human-centered personal AI and large language models.
10+ YOESenior backend engineer with 10+ years in production cloud systems; strong Python, PostgreSQL, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure); Kubernetes; LLM patterns; ownership and reliability.
Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platform (AWS/GCP/Azure), LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Anori
Anori: AI-powered platform streamlining real estate development and urban planning.
5+ YOE5+ years building large, complex software; CS degree or equivalent; Python; data orchestration; experience with multimodal data and AI pipelines.
Python, Data orchestration, Geospatial data, Infrastructure as Code, GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend/Infra
Palo Alto, California, United States
$185k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
Pika
Pika: AI-powered platform for generating and editing professional videos
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years with LLM/agentic systems preferred; deep backend proficiency (Node.js, Python, Go), distributed systems, AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, real-time architectures, and LLM integration skills.
Node.js, Python, Go, Express, FastAPI, TypeScript, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, WebSocket, Claude, GPT, Gemini, LLM, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT, SQL, NoSQL
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Backend Software Engineer - Platforms
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
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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Staff Engineer - Backend Java
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$192k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Illumio
Illumio: Provides zero-trust segmentation software to contain cyberattacks.
Senior backend engineer with cloud architecture experience, strong Java/Python skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, REST, and infrastructure as code.
Java, Python, REST API, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring, CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Lead Backend Software Engineer
San Carlos, California, United States
$185k-$260k/yr HybridFull Time
Beacon AI
Beacon AI: Developing an AI-powered-pilot for safer flight operations.
5+ YOE5+ years building backend services and distributed systems, fluency in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), experience with data pipelines, production reliability, and US Person work authorization.
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js
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Backend Engineer (3-15years of experience)
San Jose or Durham or Mexico City or Vancouver or Bangalore or Pune or Hoofddorp or Belgrade or Barcelona or Singapore or Sydney or Tokyo
$129k-$193k/yr HybridFull Time
Nutanix
NutanixNASDAQ: NTNX: Sells cloud software and hyperconverged infrastructure for enterprises.
4+ YOE4+ years building scalable, fault-tolerant backend services with Docker,Kubernetes,Go,Python,CI/CD and strong systems, distributed computing, and datacenter knowledge.
Docker, Kubernetes, Go, Python, CI/CD, TensorFlow, PyTorch, GPU
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Helix AI Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
San Jose, California, United States
$150k-$400k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Figure
Figure: Develops autonomous humanoid robots for commercial and residential tasks.
5+ YOESenior backend engineer skilled in high-throughput, real-time streaming, cloud systems, and ML-serving integration.
Go, C++, Python, Rust, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, CI/CD
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Software Engineer - Backend
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition: Developing software and simulation infrastructure for autonomous vehicles.
2+ YOEBachelor's degree,2+ years backend web services experience,proficiency in Go or Python,distributed systems,microservices,cloud platforms and containerization,NoSQL (Redis),EMR not mentioned.
protobuf, gRPC, AWS, GCP, OCI, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Go, Python
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Senior Backend Software Engineer - GM Energy
Warren or Austin or Sunnyvale
$129k-$198k/yr HybridFull Time
General Motors
General MotorsNYSE: GM: Manufactures and sells automobiles and automotive parts globally.
5+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related and 5+ years software engineering experience; strong backend/API development, cloud and distributed systems experience; proficiency in Java/Kotlin/Python/Go; testing, debugging, and collaboration skills.
Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (AdTech)
Palo Alto, California, United States
$160k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
Mashgin
Mashgin: AI-powered touchless checkout kiosks for retail and dining.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience, B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent, strong knowledge of Python/Node.js/C++/Go/C#/Java, production systems, SQL, algorithms; AdTech experience preferred.
Python, Node.js, C++, Go, C#, Java, SQL, OpenRTB
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