1,054 senior backend engineer jobs at 480 companies in Cherryland, CA

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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$150k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Amari
Amari: AI agents automating document-heavy workflows for the logistics industry.
4+ YOE4–6 years backend software engineering in a high-growth startup; ownership of backend systems; strong architectural judgment; in-person SF collaboration.
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Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic
Palo Alto, California, United States
$350k-$500k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Inflection AI
Inflection AI: Develops human-centered personal AI and large language models.
10+ YOESenior backend engineer with 10+ years in production cloud systems; strong Python, PostgreSQL, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure); Kubernetes; LLM patterns; ownership and reliability.
Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platform (AWS/GCP/Azure), LangGraph, LlamaIndex, OpenAI
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$230k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Mochi Health
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
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Senior Backend Engineer, Product
San Francisco, California, United States
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Orion Sleep
Orion Sleep: Manufacturer of AI-powered smart mattress covers for sleep optimization.
Experience designing APIs, scaling backend systems from 0-1, and building infrastructure to support product features; strong backend engineering and system-architecture skills.
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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$175k-$275k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Hedra
Hedra: Builds artificial intelligence models for character-driven video generation.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development with Python, FastAPI/Pydantic; Kubernetes/EKS; relational databases; AWS stack; building scalable services.
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Kubernetes, EKS, PostgreSQL, Redis, S3, DynamoDB, AWS
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Lead Backend Engineer
San Francisco or Lehi or Plano
$138k-$216k/yr HybridFull Time
Collective Health
Collective Health: Cloud platform for managing employer-sponsored health benefits.
10+ YOE10+ years backend engineering experience with Java and Spring Cloud, microservices and integration platform experience (Mulesoft), AI tooling familiarity, cloud (AWS/GCP), SQL/PostgreSQL, system development, and strong communication and leadership skills.
Java, Spring Cloud, Mulesoft, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, WindSurf, AWS, GCP, SQL, PostgreSQL
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Principal Engineer, Backend Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
$210k-$274k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atlassian
AtlassianNASDAQ: TEAM: Develops software for team collaboration and project management.
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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Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Judgment Labs
Judgment Labs: Infrastructure for monitoring and optimizing autonomous AI agents.
6+ YOE6+ years building high-throughput backend systems; strong API design, data modeling, distributed systems experience; hands-on with ClickHouse/Presto; EM and platform collaboration skills.
ClickHouse, Presto, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Ray, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect
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Senior Backend Engineer
Redwood City, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Waystation
Waystation: AI-native procurement platform for consumer packaged goods.
6+ YOERequires 6+ years of production software experience, 2+ years at a seed-to-Series B startup, backend/data expertise, live schema migrations, queues, APIs, and strong communication.
TypeScript, Node, React, GraphQL, Postgres, Claude Code
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Senior Backend Engineer - Device Platform
San Mateo, California, United States
$125k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
6+ YOE6+ years backend experience; Python or Go; other languages (Ruby/Node.js) welcome; US citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP; onsite five days a week.
Python, Go, Ruby, JavaScript (Node.js)
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Semiotic Labs - Senior Backend Engineer
New York or San Francisco
RemoteFull Time
YieldNest
YieldNest: Liquid restaking protocol for risk-adjusted DeFi yields.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development in Python; async programming; deep PostgreSQL; multi-tenant data isolation; Redis; OpenTelemetry; AWS; strong system design and collaboration.
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, Async SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, pgvector, Row-level security, Redis, OpenTelemetry, AWS, React, Vite
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Senior Backend Engineer
Mountain View, California, United States
$190k-$240k/yr HybridFull Time
Matternet
Matternet: Develops autonomous drone networks for urban package delivery.
6+ YOE6+ years building and operating production backend systems; strong Node.js/TypeScript skills, API design (GraphQL/REST), relational databases, cloud, containers, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and security.
Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, NestJS, Next.js, React, Kafka, MQTT
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Senior Backend Engineer
Madrid or Paris or Seattle or London or Berlin or San Francisco or New York City or Sydney or Mexico City
HybridFull Time
Aircall
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.
TypeScript, AWS, CloudFormation, Terraform, GraphQL
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Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
Mountain View or San Francisco or New York City
$170k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Commure
Commure: AI-powered software platform for healthcare workflow and administrative automation.
Professional software development experience; strong backend skills with Python and web frameworks; experience with containers and cloud (Docker, Kubernetes); production systems, alerting, metrics, and SRE practices; leadership and customer-facing experience.
Python, Flask, Django, FastAPIs, Docker, Kubernetes, LLMs, EHRs
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Senior Backend Developer
San Francisco, California, United States
$160k-$210k/yr RemoteFull Time
Ellipsis Health
Ellipsis Health: AI-powered voice agent for healthcare care management.
5+ YOE5+ years backend development; strong TypeScript/Node.js; REST/GraphQL; orchestration layers; microservices; cloud platforms; Kubernetes; SQL/NoSQL; secure data handling; CI/CD; production ownership.
TypeScript, Node.js, REST, GraphQL, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, CI/CD
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Senior Backend Software Engineer
New York City or San Francisco
$100k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Alpaca Health
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.
Candid, Silna, Availity, HubSpot, LLM
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Senior Backend Engineer, Managed Kubernetes & Slurm
New York City or San Francisco or Seattle
$180k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Lightning AI
Lightning AI: Unified platform to build, train, and deploy AI models.
Significant experience building and operating production backend systems with Go or Python, deep Kubernetes or Slurm knowledge, distributed systems, networking, observability, CI/CD, and production incident response.
Go, Python, Kubernetes, Slurm, Terraform, Crossplane, Helm, Argo CD, Flux, Kustomize, gRPC
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend - RQL
Seattle or San Francisco
$168k-$280k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Rippling
Rippling: Unified platform managing workforce HR, IT, and finance operations
6+ YOE6+ years backend engineering experience; experience with distributed systems, distributed processing engines, big data technologies, mentoring developers, and building data platforms.
Python, MongoDB, CDC, Kafka, Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink, Rippling Query Language (RQL), Microsoft 365
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Senior Backend Engineer- AI Agents (Remote)
Mountain View or United States
RemoteFull Time
Level AI
Level AI: AI-native platform for contact center intelligence and automation
5+ YOE5+ years backend/distributed systems experience; strong API, real-time/event-driven, and system-design skills; experience with SQL+NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); LLM/agent experience preferred.
LLMs, SLMs, REST, gRPC, SQL, NoSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, RAG
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Senior Backend Platform Engineer
Santa Clara, California, United States
$184k-$357k/yr OnsiteFull Time
NVIDIA
NVIDIANASDAQ: NVDA: Designs graphics processing units and artificial intelligence hardware.
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