249 backend engineering manager jobs at 156 companies in California
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Principal Engineer, Backend Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$210k-$274k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Expert backend engineering to design and lead an AI proxy platform, ensure high availability, cost-efficiency, security integration, and mentor engineering teams.
Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, Rovo CLI
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Senior Manager, Backend Services
New York City or Los Angeles or Chicago or Stamford or California or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Nevada or New Hampshire or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Oregon or South Carolina or South Dakota or Texas or West Virginia or Wisconsin or Wyoming
$179k-$210k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOE2+ Mgmt7+ years backend engineering, 2+ years engineering management, GraphQL and REST API design, Node.js and cloud-native experience, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, strong communication and leadership.
GraphQL, Apollo, Hasura, REST, Node.js, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Pulumi, SQL, NoSQL, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Stripe, PayPal, Recurly, Auth0, Cognito, LoginRadius, Kafka, SNS, SQS
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Senior Manager, Backend (Platform Interoperability)
Livermore or California
$200k-$240k/yr HybridFull Time
12+ YOE12+ MgmtBachelor's in CS or related, 12+ years managing teams/integrations, CJIS eligibility, strong backend experience in Python and TypeScript/Node.js, GIS and event-driven systems experience.
Python, TypeScript, Node.js, MQTT, WebSockets, Kafka, REST, gRPC, Mapbox, ESRI, PostGIS, GeoJSON, GCP, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, IAM, Jamf, Microsoft Intune, Kandji, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, mTLS, SCIM, Tyler, Hexagon, Central Square, Mark43, RapidSOS, FirstNet
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Sr. Director, Back-End Engineering
Mountain View, California, United States
$184k-$376k/yr OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOE8+ MgmtRequires 15+ years in software engineering or platform engineering, 8+ years leading large engineering organizations, and expertise in build systems, dependency management, artifact platforms, CI/CD, and software supply chain security.
Amazon Brazil, Bazel, Buck, JFrog Artifactory, SLSA, Sigstore, in-toto, SBOM, CI/CD
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Backend Application Architect
Sunnyvale or Alpharetta
$160k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOE12+ years building enterprise backend systems in Java/JVM, strong experience with cloud, microservices, distributed messaging, databases, API design, and architectural leadership.
Java, JVM, Spring Boot, CQRS, Saga, Circuit Breaker, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, RESTful API, OpenAPI/Swagger, OAuth2, JWT, mTLS, Python, Go, Node.js, Next.js, Google Cloud Functions, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, Spring WebFlux, RxJava
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Senior Engineering Manager, Back End
United States or Austin or San Francisco or New York City or Seattle or Los Angeles or Chicago or Gurugram or Bengaluru
$200k-$260k/yr RemoteFull Time
3+ YOE3+ MgmtRequires 3–7 years managing backend or platform engineering teams, senior or staff backend engineering experience, API-driven systems expertise, and strong distributed systems, scalability, and architecture knowledge.
React, Golang, Python, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, Docker, OpenSearch, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Cognito
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Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Kubernetes & Slurm
New York City or San Francisco or Seattle
$180k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Significant experience building and operating production backend systems with Go or Python, deep Kubernetes or Slurm knowledge, distributed systems, networking, observability, CI/CD, and production incident response.
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, Kustomize, gRPC
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Engineering Manager, RCM AI Core Backend
Mountain View or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City
$200k-$225k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE2+ Mgmt6+ years developing software, 2+ years leading engineering teams, experience delivering platform-scale backend systems, strong communication, and technical expertise in Python, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes.
Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, EHR
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Senior Backend Engineer II - eCommerce
California, United States
$175k-$190k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOERequires 7+ years of backend software engineering with Python, REST API and distributed systems experience, PostgreSQL expertise, cloud platforms, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and cross-team collaboration.
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Stripe, CommerceTools, Salesforce, Voucherify, Datadog, Flask, Django, AWS, pytest, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions
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Engineering Manager, Backend Frameworks
San Francisco or Sunnyvale or Seattle or Los Angeles or New York City
$194k-$285k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOE2+ MgmtRequires 7+ years software development, expert Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python proficiency, 3+ years distributed systems experience, and 2+ years engineering team leadership.
Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, Gem, Covey
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Staff Backend Engineer, Offerwall
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$261k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Staff-level backend engineer with technical leadership experience, large-scale distributed systems expertise, Go proficiency, gRPC knowledge, observability and messaging experience, and cross-team mentorship skills.
Go, gRPC, OpenRTB
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Senior Back End Engineer
San Francisco or California or New York or United States
$185k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend experience; 3+ years running production Kubernetes; experience with Elasticsearch, distributed systems, Docker, cloud-managed Kubernetes, Terraform; proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Helm, GitOps, Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, Docker, EKS, GKE, AKS, Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, Istio, Linkerd, Temporal, Airflow, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK
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Engineering Manager, Cloud Backend - AI Detection and Response (AIDR) (Hybrid)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$140k-$215k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE3+ MgmtRequires 10+ years of software development experience and 3+ years managing backend teams, with cloud-native distributed systems, microservices, coding, reliability, hiring, and technical leadership experience.
Go, Python, Java, REST, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Pulsar, AWS, GCP, OCI, Azure, Microsoft CoPilot Ecosystem, Microsoft Agent Studio
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Staff Backend Engineer, Core Data Service
San Jose, California, United States
$245k-$450k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building large-scale distributed backend systems; strong coding in Go/C++/Java; experience with active-active/global architectures, distributed storage, and AI-native infrastructure.
Go, C++, Java, Redis, RocksDB, Spanner
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Java Backend Developer
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$65k-$90k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOERequires 6–10 years of software development experience, strong Java and Spring Boot Microservices proficiency, Commerce Full Stack Engineering expertise, problem-solving, communication, and hybrid-work capability.
Java, Spring Boot, Microservices
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Senior Backend Engineer, Safety
United States or San Francisco or Los Angeles or New York City or Chicago
$191k-$267k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOERequires 5–8 years of software development experience, proficiency in Go, Python, Rust, or Ruby, API design experience, cross-functional collaboration, and a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
Go, Python, Rust, Ruby, GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift, gRPC
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Principal Backend Engineer – Music Discovery Platform - Roon
New York or Illinois or Florida or Tennessee or Oregon or Kentucky or Connecticut or Kansas or California or Colorado or Missouri or Idaho or Arizona or Minnesota or Montana or Massachusetts or Indiana or District of Columbia or Michigan
$125k-$184k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years developing backend services; proficiency in Node.js, Python, or Go; expertise in APIs, microservices, cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, databases, and CI/CD; leadership and mentoring experience.
Node.js, Python, Go, GCP, AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, C#, .NET
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Staff Software Engineer-Backend
Fremont, California, United States
$182k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's in CS or related,8+ years backend experience,proficiency in Go/Node.js/Python/Java,relational and non-relational databases,identity management experience,architecture and on-call responsibility.
Go, Node.js, Python, Java, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Azure AD, AWS Cognito, LDAP, Okta, Keyclock
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Senior Backend Software Engineer, Integrations Platform [Canada]
Canada or Toronto or San Francisco or New York City or London or Dublin or Tel Aviv or Sydney
RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years building reliable, scalable backend systems; expertise in RESTful APIs, GraphQL, authentication, data integrations, security, and platform design; experience leading complex projects and mentoring engineers.
TypeScript, React, Node.js, CI/CD, RESTful APIs, GraphQL, OAuth, JWT, AI Skills
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Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core Backend, Cloud Customer Experience
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$170k-$205k/yr OnsiteFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3+ years of software development experience, compiled-language programming, API and distributed-systems design, PostgreSQL, event-driven systems, cloud services, and infrastructure tooling. Go experience is primary.
Go, Rust, Java, C++, gRPC, protobuf, REST, SDK, CLI, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Kafka, NATS, Pub/Sub, Temporal, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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