914 backend platform engineer jobs at 529 companies in United States
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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform Readiness
Canada or United States
RemoteFull Time
Strong backend engineering with cloud-native and deployment architecture experience; systems thinking; collaborative platform engineering skills.
Kubernetes, GitLab, CI
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Backend Platform Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$180k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
2+ YOEMinimum 2 years backend infra experience; familiarity with Python, DevOps, Bash, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP; Typescript is a bonus; strong problem-solving for national security use cases.
Python, DevOps, Bash, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, GCP, Typescript
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Senior Backend Platform Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOEBS or equivalent and 8+ years software engineering experience; strong Go, Linux, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) experience; distributed-systems and production operations skills.
Go, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Temporal
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Backend & AI Platform Engineer
San Jose or Indianapolis
$150k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOEBachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field; 7+ years building distributed backend systems and APIs; experience with event-driven architectures, microservices, cloud platforms, LLM applications, and multi-agent systems.
AWS, Azure, GCP, LIMS, ELN, SiLA 2, HIPAA, SOC 2
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Backend Platform Engineer - AI Operations Platform
Philadelphia or Reston
$136k-$214k/yr OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years designing distributed backend systems and microservices; GraphQL and REST API expertise; AI/ML deployment; relational or NoSQL databases; advanced Python or equivalent language skills; bachelor's degree preferred.
GraphQL, REST, Python, Go, Java, C++, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps, CI/CD
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Senior Backend Platform Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOEB.S. or equivalent experience, 8+ years software engineering, strong Go, Linux, Kubernetes, cloud and networking experience, distributed-systems expertise, production reliability and observability.
Go, Linux, Kubernetes, Temporal, AWS, GCP, Azure
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Senior Backend Platform Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 8+ years of software engineering experience, production Go development, Linux, networking, Kubernetes, containers, public cloud, and distributed-systems expertise.
Go, Linux, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Temporal, TCP/IP, DNS, VPN
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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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Staff Backend AI Platform Engineer
San Mateo, California, United States
$225k-$278k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years backend experience, 1-2+ years in AI/ML platform work; expert Java and Python; experience with LangChain/LangGraph/LangSmith, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL and vector DBs; Temporal or Airflow and Kafka.
LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, Temporal, Airflow, Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Java, Python
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Backend / Platform Developer Consultant (Temporal & Kubernetes)
Chicago or United States
RemoteFull Time
Experienced in building and operating JVM services, Temporal workflows, Kafka event streams, Kubernetes on AWS, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, and platform engineering; strong Java and systems-engineering skills.
Java, JVM, Spring Boot, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Temporal, Apache Airflow, Prefect, Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Avro, Protobuf, MSK, Confluent, GraphQL, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, OpenTofu, Crossplane, ACK, controller-runtime, kubebuilder, Helm, OCI, External Secrets Operator, Karpenter, KEDA, Istio, SPIFFE, SPIRE, SQS, SNS, RabbitMQ, JWT, gRPC, REST
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Backend Engineer, Integrations Platform
New York, New York, United States
$115k-$140k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOE3-5 years backend integrations experience; CS degree or equivalent; strong Python; AWS experience; on-call; production ops; security hygiene; concurrency knowledge
Python, AWS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, ECR, FastAPI, Redis, Celery, gRPC, Selenium, Playwright
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Backend Engineer — Data Platform
New York City, New York, United States
$175k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years building production backend or data-intensive systems; excellent Python and SQL; AWS and Kubernetes experience; scalable data pipeline orchestration experience; strong communication and architectural judgment.
Python, Rust, SQL, DuckDB, PostgreSQL, DuckLake, Dagster, Kubernetes, AWS, Airflow, Prefect
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Backend Engineer
Giv'atayim or Tel Aviv or New York City or London or Singapore or São Paulo
HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend/platform engineering experience, 5+ years with Java, Kubernetes experience, SQL and relational DB knowledge, Python familiarity, leadership and platform design experience, practical experience with AI dev tools (e.g., Cursor).
Java, Python, Kubernetes, SQL, Cursor, CI/CD, Azure, AWS
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Backend Engineer
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
RemoteFull Time
3+ YOERequires 3+ years of backend software engineering experience, strong C# and .NET proficiency, RESTful API development, relational databases, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and end-to-end feature ownership.
C#, .NET, React, Next.js, RESTful APIs, SQL Server, CosmosDB, Azure, React Native, Redis, Datadog, Serilog, Application Insights, Microsoft SQL Server
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Senior Backend Engineer – AI Platform
Boston or San Francisco or Seattle or Dallas or Salt Lake City or Portland or United States
$122k-$146k/yr RemoteFull Time
5+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Software Engineering, 5–8 years software engineering experience; expertise in backend Java/C# (SpringBoot), REST/gRPC, SQL; experience building scalable distributed systems and AI/LLM-driven services.
Java, C#, SpringBoot, REST, gRPC, ODATA, SQL, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, Python, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Pinecone, Weaviate, OpenSearch, Milvus
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Senior Backend Engineer, Data Platform
United States
$158k-$257k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience with distributed/data-intensive systems; experience with streaming/batch pipelines, analytical data stores, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and production ownership.
Kinesis, Airflow, Spark, Lambda, Flink, Athena, ClickHouse, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Glue, Iceberg, S3, Terraform, Datadog, Kafka, Redshift, Databricks, Go, Python, SQL, Scala
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Lead Backend Developer
United States
$80k-$95k/yr RemoteFull Time
6+ YOEBachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical discipline, 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience, distributed systems expertise, backend language proficiency, and experience leading platform initiatives.
Java, Go, Scala, Rust, C++, Kafka, Pulsar, NATS, Kubernetes
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Senior Backend Platform Developer, Contact Center Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
OnsiteFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS Lambda or serverless, strong API design, observability, integrations, and familiarity with GitHub workflows and AI-assisted development.
Node.js, TypeScript, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, OpenSearch, CloudWatch, Kibana, Snowflake, GitHub, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS SAM, Genesys Cloud, Twilio, Five9, NICE, Zoom Contact Center, Avaya, SIP
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Staff Backend Engineer - Ads Platform
United States
$212k-$265k/yr RemoteFull Time
9+ YOE9+ years hands-on software engineering experience, technical leadership, strong communication, experience with paid-advertising platforms preferred, bachelor's or master's in CS preferred.
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Principal Backend Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$188k-$259k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOERequires 8+ years of backend engineering experience, a bachelor's degree or equivalent, expertise in backend languages and frameworks, distributed systems, APIs, databases, cloud platforms, containers, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
Node.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, REST, GraphQL, CI/CD
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