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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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Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure
Mountain View, California, United States
$136k-$259k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Unity
UnityNYSE: U: Provides software for creating real-time 3D interactive content.
Experience building production distributed systems, backend services, or internal platforms; strong API and systems engineering; cloud-native infrastructure; access control; CI/CD; infrastructure as code; observability; and interest in LLM agent systems.
GCP, BigQuery, MCP, CI/CD, LLM, infrastructure as code
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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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Backend Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Luminary Cloud
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.
Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, CI/CD
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Senior Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Mountain View, California, United States
RemoteFull Time
Coupang
CoupangNYSE: CPNG: Provides an end-to-end e-commerce and logistics network.
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 Staff Backend Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure
Mountain View, California, United States
$174k-$299k/yr HybridAll Commitments Available
Coupang
CoupangNYSE: CPNG: Provides online retail, grocery delivery, and video streaming services.
10+ YOEExtensive cloud platform engineering with DevOps, IaC, Kubernetes; 10+ years in cloud, SRE/DevOps; leadership experience.
Terraform, Python, Go, CloudFormation, Ansible, GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, IaC
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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+ 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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Staff Cloud Backend Developer
Palo Alto, California, United States
$170k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
ALSO
ALSO: Developing vertically integrated small electric vehicles for urban mobility.
10+ YOE10+ years building and scaling backend systems, experience with remote device lifecycle, API and schema design, event-driven architectures, security/authentication, and cloud infrastructure.
AWS, Lambda, ECR, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, JSON-RPC, Kafka, Redis, SQS, SNS, OAuth2, OID, JWT, SAML, mTLS, MQTT, CoAP
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Software Engineer, Backend
Palo Alto, California, United States
$185k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
Pika
Pika: AI-powered platform for generating and editing professional videos
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience (2+ years senior), expertise in distributed systems, scalable APIs, cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Kubernetes), strong system design and communication skills.
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
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Backend Software Engineer, TikTok Live Recommendation Infrastructure
San Jose, California, United States
$245k-$588k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS or related, 3+ years experience, strong programming in C++, Go, or Java, Python scripting, distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and data pipeline experience (Spark, Flink, Kafka, Hadoop).
C++, Go, Java, Python, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Hadoop, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Kubernetes
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Backend Software Engineer, Trading Systems & Data Platform
Mountain View or New York City or New Jersey
$110k-$300k/yr HybridFull Time
Arta Finance
Arta Finance: Digital wealth management platform for sophisticated individual investors.
Experience building reliable distributed systems, backend platforms or data infrastructure; strong programming skills (Python or similar); familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes and cloud; knowledge of financial systems is a plus.
Python, Kafka, Kubernetes
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Backend Development Engineer Graduate (Infrastructure Platform Delivery) - 2027 Start
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
Completing or recently completed a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field; strong coding, data structures, algorithms, and programming language skills.
Java, Go, C, C++, MySQL, Redis, Linux, TCP/UDP, HTTP
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Software Engineer - Backend Infrastructure, Standalone Apps Team
Menlo Park, California, United States
$219k-$301k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Meta
MetaNASDAQ: META: Develops social networking platforms and virtual reality technologies.
12+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 12+ years software engineering experience with infrastructure/platform/distributed systems, strong distributed systems/storage/reliability knowledge, track record operating infrastructure at scale.
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)
Seattle or Mountain View
$185k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
Otter.ai
Otter.ai: AI-powered meeting transcription and automated note-taking platform.
5+ YOEBachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in computer science or related field; 5+ years developing large-scale web services; expert Python or equivalent; backend, databases, distributed systems, AWS, and production server experience.
MySQL, Vitess, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Python, Go, Java, C++, Django, Elasticsearch, AWS, HTTP, Linux
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Senior Infrastructure Architecture Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
MaxInsights
MaxInsights: Provides robot data collection for physical AI development.
Senior-level infrastructure experience with Python and backend systems, architecture judgment across data and platform workflows, ability to define boundaries, and strong communication and product sense.
Python, Docker, CI/CD, observability
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Staff, Software Engineer - Backend / ML
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$143k-$286k/yr HybridFull Time
Walmart
WalmartNYSE: WMT: Multinational retail operating discount stores and supermarkets.
6+ YOE10+ years building large-scale distributed backend microservices, data pipelines, and ML-serving infrastructure; expertise with Java/Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL, testing frameworks, and cloud data platforms; experience leading engineering teams.
Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, SparkSQL, Kafka, Cassandra, JUnit, Mockito, Hive, BigQuery, GCP, GCS, Cosmos DB, Azure Blob Storage, Solr, Elasticsearch, Vespa, FAISS, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorRT, ONNX, Python, Airflow
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Staff Software Engineer - Backend
Mountain View, California, United States
$198k-$225k/yr HybridFull Time
Cyngn
CyngnNASDAQ: CYN: Develops self-driving technology for industrial vehicle fleets.
10+ YOE10+ years of backend software development experience; expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native SaaS, APIs, real-time processing, databases, containerization, infrastructure-as-code, and team leadership.
Python, Go, Java, C++, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, SQL, NoSQL, WebSocket, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, ROS, AMQP, MQTT, DDS, InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, CI/CD
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Senior Core Infrastructure Engineer
Seattle or Santa Clara or United States
$89k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle
OracleNYSE: ORCL: Provides cloud infrastructure and enterprise software for global businesses.
6+ YOEExperience building backend services and large-scale distributed systems for cloud infrastructure; proficiency in Java or Python; strong system design, concurrency, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering skills; bachelor’s or master’s in CS or equivalent.
Java, Python, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), CI/CD Tools
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Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Intent Lab
Intent Lab: Builds autonomous AI agents for software engineering.
3+ YOE3+ years backend/infrastructure experience, strong distributed systems and cloud architecture, proficiency in Go/Python/Rust, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform or Pulumi, CI/CD and observability experience.
Go, Python, Rust, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD
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Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure
Mountain View, California, United States
$160k-$241k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Nuro
Nuro: Builds autonomous driving software and electric delivery robots.
3+ YOE3+ years in ML infrastructure/backend platform or distributed systems. Experience with Terraform/Pulumi/Crossplane, Kubernetes/Ray/Slurm/Volcano schedulers, Apache Spark/Beam, feature stores (Feast/Hopsworks/Redis), and systems design for HPC.
Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, Kubernetes, KubeRay, Ray, Slurm, Volcano, Apache Spark, Apache Beam, Feast, Hopsworks, Redis, Lustre, Ceph, NVMe, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubeflow, CNCF
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