126 java backend developer jobs at 31 companies in Salinas, CA

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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
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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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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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Staff Backend Engineer, Core Data Service
San Jose, California, United States
$245k-$450k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Global short-form video hosting and social media platform.
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
1mo
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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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Sr Principal Engineer Software- Backend (Prisma Browser)
Santa Clara, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
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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Backend Development Engineer Intern (Infrastructure Platform Delivery) - 2026 Fall (BS/MS)
San Jose, California, United States
OnsiteInternship
ByteDance
ByteDance: Developing AI-driven content platforms and mobile applications.
Final-year or graduating BS/MS students in CS or related fields; strong coding, data structures and algorithms; proficiency in Java, Go, or C/C++; able to commit 12 weeks in 2026.
Java, Go, C/C++, MySQL, Redis, Linux, TCP, UDP, HTTP
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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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Staff Software Engineer, Backend
San Jose, California, United States
$173k-$216k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Archer
ArcherNYSE: ACHR: Develops electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft for urban mobility.
5+ YOEBS/MS in CS or related,5+ years backend and data pipeline experience,proficiency in Java,Python and/or Rust,experience with streaming systems,databases,cloud and containerization.
Java, Python, Rust, Apache Pulsar, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Docker, AWS, GCP, Azure, Parquet, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps
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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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SASE Cloud Software Engineer - AI & Backend
San Jose, California, United States
$137k-$277k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Provides edge-to-cloud IT infrastructure and platform services.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development with Java and/or Python, 5+ years designing REST APIs and microservices, 2+ years building or integrating AI/LLM applications, experience with SQL/NoSQL and cloud platforms, Bachelor’s required.
Java, Python, REST, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Azure, JavaScript, React, Node.js, Copilot
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SASE Cloud Software Engineer - AI & Backend
San Jose, California, United States
$137k-$277k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Provides global edge-to-cloud technology solutions and IT infrastructure services.
5+ YOE5+ years Java/Python backend development, 5+ years designing REST APIs/microservices, 2+ years building or integrating AI/LLM applications, experience with SQL/NoSQL and cloud platforms, familiarity with JavaScript/React/Node.js, BS in a technical discipline.
Java, Python, REST APIs, LLM, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Azure, JavaScript, React, Node.js
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SASE Cloud Software Engineer - AI & Backend
San Jose, California, United States
$137k-$277k/yr HybridFull Time
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseNYSE: HPE: Providing global edge-to-cloud infrastructure and IT solutions for businesses.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development (Java and/or Python), 5+ years designing REST APIs/microservices, 2+ years building or integrating AI/LLM applications; experience with SQL/NoSQL and cloud platforms; Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred.
Java, Python, REST, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Azure, JavaScript, React, Node.js
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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
2mo
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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
OnsiteFull Time
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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Senior Software Engineer II, Developer Experience
New York or San Francisco or Santa Clara
$213k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Carta
Carta: Software platform for cap table management and fund administration.
8+ YOE8+ years in platform, backend, or fullstack engineering; production LLM experience; API and developer ergonomics focus; Python or Java; CI/CD tooling; cloud-native stack; security-minded.
Python, Java, CI/CD tooling, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Vault, Cloudsmith
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Software Development Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
$196k-$229k/yr RemoteFull Time
Zoom
ZoomNasdaq: ZM: Provides a cloud-based platform for video, voice, and collaboration.
3+ YOEBachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Engineering or foreign degree equivalent; 3 years backend development with Java/Spring; experience with i18n, localization, data quality, and scalable cloud apps; familiarity with Redis and DynamoDB; telecommuting allowed; salary range provided.
Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Redis, Amazon DynamoDB
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Staff Developer - Bizapps
Campbell, California, United States
$190k-$286k/yr RemoteFull Time
8x8
8x8NASDAQ: EGHT: Cloud software for business phone systems and contact centers
14+ YOE14+ years building large-scale backend systems; deep Java expertise; experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture (Kafka), APIs, cloud-native (Docker/Kubernetes) and integrations with ERP/CRM/payment systems.
Java, Python, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, OAuth2, JWT, Salesforce, OpenAPI/Swagger, GitHub Copilot, Claude, REST
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Integrations (Tech Lead) — Veza
Santa Clara or Redwood City
$191k-$334k/yr HybridFull Time
ServiceNow
ServiceNowNYSE: NOW: Provides a cloud platform for automating enterprise digital workflows.
12+ YOESenior backend engineer with 12+ years (or 8+ with advanced degree) in backend development, proficiency in Golang/Java, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), REST APIs, databases/distributed systems, and team leadership; experience applying AI/ML to integrations.
Golang, Java, AWS, GCP, Azure, Box, Hashicorp, Databricks, SQL, NoSQL, RESTful APIs, AI/ML
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Principal Software Developer
Austin or Nashville or Seattle or Santa Clara or Redwood Shores or United States
$97k-$223k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Oracle
OracleNYSE: ORCL: Provides cloud infrastructure and enterprise software for global businesses.
7+ YOE7+ years software engineering experience; strong distributed systems and backend platform expertise; proficiency in Java, C++, C#, or Go; BS/MS in CS or equivalent; strong problem-solving and mentorship skills.
Java, C++, C#, Go
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Principal Software Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$165k-$283k/yr RemoteFull Time
Siemens
SiemensXETRA: SIE: Manufactures industrial automation, infrastructure, and energy technology systems.
10+ YOE10+ years software development experience, distributed systems and real-time application design, backend proficiency (Python/Go/Java), technical leadership, system design, and scalable architecture.
Python, Go, TypeScript, PyTorch, HuggingFace, ONNX Runtime, LangChain, AWS, Kubernetes, Redis, Postgres, S3, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus