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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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Founding Full-stack / Product Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$130k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
HiringCafe
HiringCafe: Building a 100× better job search engine to take on Indeed and LinkedIn.
Help us build a 100× better job search engine. We need a full-stack engineer with great taste, sharp fundamentals, and a track record of shipping polished product on React/Next.js plus a real backend (Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe).
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis, Stripe
Help us #BeatIndeed & #BeatLinkedIn
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Backend Software Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$140k-$205k/yr HybridFull Time
Kerrigan Robotics
Kerrigan Robotics: AI-powered orchestration platform for factory automation systems.
5+ YOE5+ years backend experience building distributed systems in Go; strong Docker and Kubernetes skills; familiarity with PostgreSQL, message brokers (NATS, RabbitMQ), gRPC/REST, CI/CD and Git.
Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, NATS, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, gRPC, REST, CI/CD, Git
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Backend Software Engineer, Asset Services
San Jose, California, United States
$123k-$317k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
Experienced building large-scale backend services for consumer applications; proficiency in at least one of Go, NodeJS, Python, Java, or C++; strong CS fundamentals and collaboration skills; BA/BS in CS preferred.
Go, NodeJS, Python, Java, C++
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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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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform
San Jose, California, United States
$127k-$150k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Archer
ArcherNYSE: ACHR: Develops electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for urban mobility.
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering; Go; PostgreSQL; distributed systems; data integrity; delta syncs; AWS.
Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kafka
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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, Flag Delivery
Oakland or San Francisco or New York City or Boston or Seattle or Irvine or Los Angeles or Monterey or Santa Barbara or Santa Rosa or Austin or Portland or Philadelphia or Chicago or United States
$146k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly: Provides a feature management platform for software development teams.
5+ YOE5+ years backend engineering experience building/operating production distributed systems; strong programming in Go/Java/Rust; production debugging, observability, on-call experience; clear AI usage in engineering work.
Go, Java, Rust
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Sr Principal Engineer Software- Backend (Prisma Browser)
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto NetworksNASDAQ: PANW: Provides enterprise-grade network, cloud, and endpoint security software.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development in Go/C#/Java/C++ or similar; experience with cloud environments and microservices; strong performance focus.
Go, CSharp, Java, C++, AWS, GCP, Azure, Microservices
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Senior Backend Engineer - Anywhere Cloud
San Jose, California, United States
$152k-$190k/yr HybridFull Time
Cloudera
Cloudera: Provides hybrid data platforms for enterprise analytics and AI.
5+ YOE5+ years building production backend systems; strong Go skills; Kubernetes experience; REST API and SQL/PostgreSQL proficiency; ability to design service APIs and ship production code autonomously.
Go, Echo, controller-runtime, kubebuilder, Kubernetes, Helm, CRDs, Kubernetes API, Istio, CCF/Taikun provisioning API, Knox, cert-manager, Proxinator, AWS S3, AWS IAM, GCP, golang-migrate, PostgreSQL, REST, Bazel, Make, slog
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Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud Platform
San Jose, California, United States
$139k-$258k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Adobe
AdobeNASDAQ: ADBE: Provides software for digital media creation and marketing analytics
5+ YOE5+ years experience in Java and cloud development, experience with cloud APIs, DevOps, AI-first development, Bachelor's degree or equivalent preferred.
Azure, AWS, GCP, Java, Azure Java SDK, Chef, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Adobe AEM
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Backend Software Engineer - Platforms
San Jose, California, United States
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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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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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Senior Backend Platform Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs GPU-accelerated computing and artificial intelligence hardware.
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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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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Sr Staff Engineer Backend
Los Angeles or Santa Clara or Tustin or Dallas
$99k-$185k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Lendistry
Lendistry: Technology-enabled lender providing capital to small businesses.
7+ YOE7+ years backend, distributed systems, microservices; technical leadership; collaboration across product, data, and compliance; AI-assisted development familiarity.
Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C#, TypeScript, REST, gRPC, OAuth2, JWT, AWS, CI/CD, AI tools, Copilot
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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Hiring.Cafe
Hiring.Cafe: An AI-powered job search engine and aggregator.
Ownership from day one; strong fundamentals in programming and systems design; Node.js and Python experience; fast learner; detail-oriented; security interest preferred.
Node.js, Python
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Backend Compiler Engineer - New College Grad 2026
Santa Clara, California, United States
$108k-$196k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
Recent BS/MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering (or equivalent), compiler design coursework, LLVM backend experience, strong C/C++ coding and communication skills.
LLVM, LLVM IR, Machine IR (MIR), GlobalISel, TableGen, C/C++, CUDA, PTX, OpenGL, DX, Vulkan
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Sr. SWE - MTS 1, Backend eBay Live
San Jose, California, United States
$172k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
eBay
eBayNASDAQ: EBAY: Global online marketplace for buying and selling diverse products.
5+ YOE5+ years backend software engineering; distributed systems; REST/GraphQL; relational and NoSQL databases; CI/CD and DevOps practices; strong problem-solving and communication.
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, GraphQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, CI/CD, DevOps
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Senior Software Engineer - Back-end/Data Pipeline - VenturaOS
San Jose, California, United States
$125k-$229k/yr OnsiteFull Time
The Trade Desk
The Trade DeskNASDAQ: TTD: Cloud-based programmatic advertising platform for data-driven media buying.
7+ YOE7+ years software development (5+ in data engineering), experience with Vertica/Snowflake/Databricks, Apache Spark, Kafka, Java/Scala/Python, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), Kubernetes, data governance, ML pipelines, content metadata and distributed systems.
Vertica, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, Kafka, Java, Scala, Python, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, MLOps
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SW Dev Engineer - ASE - Back-End
Cupertino, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and online services.
Deep knowledge of C, C++, Java, internet-scale distributed systems, and database technologies; experience with design, implementation, testing, and deployment of backend services.
C, C++, Java
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Senior Lead Software Engineer, Back-End Distributed Systems (AWS, Go, Kubernetes, MCP, Lua, Python)
Cambridge or McLean or New York or Plano or San Jose
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Capital One
Capital OneNYSE: COF: Financial services offering credit cards, banking, and loans.
6+ YOE6+ yrs software engineering; 1+ yr cloud (AWS); BS; backend distributed systems exp; Go, Lua, Python, AWS, Kubernetes.
AWS, Kubernetes, Go, Lua, Python, JavaScript, Java, TypeScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Docker, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL
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