223 backend infrastructure engineer jobs at 136 companies in Berkeley, CA
🚀PromotedHiringCafe
Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yrOn-SiteFull Time
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.
Firecrawl: Converts websites into clean structured data for AI.
3+ YOE3+ years in backend, networking, or infrastructure engineering; production ownership and on-call responsibility; authorized to work in the US or eligible remote regions.
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.
Sesame: Designing wearable computers with lifelike voice-driven AI agents.
3+ YOEStrong systems thinker with reliability engineering experience; 3+ years in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems; Kubernetes production experience; strong communication.
Luminary Cloud: Cloud-native physics simulation platform for accelerated product engineering.
10+ YOE10+ years building high-performance backend systems; Kubernetes expertise; SaaS focus; cloud infrastructure and security; leadership and mentoring; strong communication.
Clera: AI talent agent matching professionals with high-growth startup roles
3+ YOE3+ years building production backend systems (Python or TypeScript/Node), experience with distributed systems, queues, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), relational databases, observability, and strong product ownership.
Mochi Health: Provides telehealth weight management and prescription medication services.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience, strong distributed systems and data modeling skills, experience owning infrastructure (Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS), proficiency with TypeScript/Node.js, excellent communication.
TypeScript, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Codex 5.3, Claude Opus 4.6
Member of Technical Staff - Backend & Infrastructure
San Francisco, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Janitor AI: Consumer AI platform for interactive roleplay and storytelling.
Product-minded backend engineer able to diagnose and fix distributed system issues; experience with Kubernetes, distributed systems, GPUs or similar systems is helpful; strong problem solving and ownership.
Town: AI-powered productivity assistant that automates workplace workflows.
Backend engineer skilled in LLM orchestration, workflow execution, and identity/knowledge layers; strong system design and AI-native infrastructure experience.
Lapel: Unifying customer data to power personalized service at scale.
3+ YOE3+ years backend or software engineering; API design, databases, integrations, permissions, event-driven systems, long-running jobs; system design and reliable platform infrastructure
Madrid or Paris or Seattle or London or Berlin or San Francisco or New York City or Sydney or Mexico City
HybridFull Time
Aircall: Cloud-based business phone system and customer communication platform.
6+ YOE6+ years backend development with a typed language (TypeScript preferred), production AWS experience, infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation or Terraform), security-first mindset, serverless experience, GraphQL a plus, on-call rotation and mentoring experience.
San Francisco or New York City or Austin or Seattle
$175k-$300k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Fluidstack: Provides high-performance cloud GPU infrastructure for AI development.
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.
CHAOS Industries: Develops advanced radar and sensing systems for modern defense.
Experience building scalable backend services and cloud infrastructure, knowledge of Python, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD; eligible U.S. Person able to obtain security clearance.
Senior Backend Engineer, TikTok BRIC ML Foundation
San Jose, California, United States
$213k-$388k/yrOnsiteFull Time
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.
Alpaca Health: Enabling clinicians to launch and scale independent autism care clinics.
Senior backend engineer with strong system-design and ownership; builds integrations, billing/payments, data pipelines, and AI/LLM infrastructure. Experience in operationally complex domains (healthcare, fintech, insurance) or early-stage startups preferred.
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.