664 staff backend engineer jobs at 391 companies in United States

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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
2mo
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Staff Backend Engineer
New York City, New York, United States
$210k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
TriEdge Investments
TriEdge Investments: Private investment firm developing AI-driven technology for healthcare companies.
Design and build scalable backend systems; collaborate with clinical/technical teams; maintain high engineering standards and observable, maintainable code; work with EHRs and data pipelines.
Backend frameworks, APIs, Data processing, Databases
2mo
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$250k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Town
Town: AI-powered productivity assistant that automates workplace workflows.
Backend engineer skilled in LLM orchestration, workflow execution, and identity/knowledge layers; strong system design and AI-native infrastructure experience.
LLM infrastructure, backend systems, knowledge graph, identity service, agent networks
1mo
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Staff Backend Engineer
United States or Canada
RemoteFull Time
Hatch
Hatch: Develops smart sleep devices and digital content for better rest.
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering; Java (11+), Spring Boot; Python; REST APIs; AWS; MySQL; distributed systems; testing; CI/CD; observability; mentorship.
Java, Spring Boot, Groovy, Python, AWS, MySQL, Ansible, Jenkins, ELK, Graphite, Docker
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Staff Engineer, Backend & Data
San Francisco, California, United States
$168k-$230k/yr HybridFull Time
Trial Library
Trial Library: AI-platform for clinical trial recruitment and patient navigation.
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience; staff-level ownership; strong AWS, AI tooling usage; healthcare domain interest; HIPAA experience a plus.
AWS, Python, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, Drizzle, Terraform, Lambda, Fargate, SQS, RDS
3mo
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Staff Backend Engineer (Python)
New York City or Montreal
$240k-$280k/yr HybridFull Time
Tetrix
Tetrix: AI-powered financial data platform.
10+ YOE10+ years backend engineering in Python; strong leadership; scalable systems design; API and data ingestion experience; AI integrations a plus.
Python, APIs, Data Ingestion, Event-Driven Architecture, Cloud
3w
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Staff Backend Engineer
United States
$200k/yr RemoteFull Time
TeamSnap
TeamSnap: Software platform for managing youth sports teams and leagues.
Staff-level backend engineering with production experience building high-scale APIs and services; strong SQL and data modeling judgment; experience with Node.js/TypeScript/Elixir or similar; production ownership and mentoring skills.
Node.js, TypeScript, Elixir, SQL, React, Redis, Elasticsearch, BigQuery, Ruby on Rails, Java, Go, Python
2mo
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Staff Backend Engineer
United States
$210k-$240k/yr RemoteFull Time
Assured
Assured: Software platform for automating insurance claims processing
8+ YOE8+ years backend or full-stack SaaS experience; distributed systems expertise; AI tooling proficiency; leadership and mentoring ability.
Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, ChatGPT, Devin
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Staff Backend Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United States
$202k-$238k/yr RemoteFull Time
Bestow
Bestow: Digital infrastructure platform for life insurance carriers.
8+ YOE8+ years backend software development; strong Go and Python; distributed systems and API design; Kubernetes and cloud; PostgreSQL; Go, Python, Java; AI tooling integration.
Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Docker, PostgreSQL, gRPC, OpenAPI, Google Cloud Platform, Drools
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco or United States
$157k-$235k/yr OnsiteFull Time
LiveRamp
LiveRampNew York Stock Exchange: RAMP: Provides a platform for secure data collaboration and identity.
5+ YOE5+ years in production code; large-scale distributed or big data systems; strong data engineering and SQL; end-to-end data pipelines; cloud (GCP) and Kubernetes; mentoring; strong communication.
Java, Go, Scala, Spark, Dataproc, SingleStore, Kubernetes, GKE, Pub/Sub, Redpanda, Kafka, Temporal, Cadence, Airflow, SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Cloud Platform (GCP)
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Staff Backend Engineer (Rails)
San Francisco or Remote
$180k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
Tread
Tread: AI platform for construction material logistics and fleet dispatching.
Strong Rails or backend framework experience, systems thinking, ownership, AI-assisted coding tools, ability to design scalable architectures.
Rails, Postgres, REST, React, Flutter, AWS
1mo
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Staff Backend Platform Engineer
United States
RemoteFull Time
Conversica
Conversica: Provides AI virtual assistants to automate business conversations.
8+ YOE8+ years backend/platform engineering experience; strong Python, FastAPI, Celery, Postgres, and AWS skills; experience with integrations, messaging, orchestration, and leading cross-team initiatives.
Python, FastAPI, Celery, Postgres, AWS, AWS SES, Twilio, OpenAI Chatkit, EventBridge, Terraform, EKS, Datadog, GitLab, Redshift, DynamoDB, Redis, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, SMTP
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Staff Backend Engineer
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
$140k-$170k/yr HybridFull Time
Modulate
Modulate: Provides real-time voice moderation and conversation intelligence software.
Strong object-oriented Python experience, API design and production experience, building and scaling backend systems, collaboration and mentorship skills.
Python
2mo
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Staff Engineer, Backend - Revenue
San Francisco, California, United States
$211k-$316k/yr RemoteFull Time
Zapier
Zapier: Connects web applications to automate repetitive workflows without coding.
8+ YOE8+ years of engineering impact in production systems; billing/payments domain experience; API/platform design; cross-team leadership; AI fluency; ability to navigate complex codebases.
1mo
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Staff Backend Engineer - Device Security
San Mateo, California, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Verkada
Verkada: Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.
8+ YOEBS/MS in CS/Engineering; 8+ years building Go/Python microservices on AWS with on-call experience; strong backend systems and architecture knowledge; familiarity with temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3; IoT and security experience preferred.
Go, Python, AWS, temporal, k8s, Docker, Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, IAM, S3
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Backend Engineer (Senior/Staff)
New York City, New York, United States
$175k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
Taxwire
Taxwire: Automated global sales tax and compliance platform for businesses.
5+ YOE5–10+ years backend engineering experience; strong backend systems, data modeling, and compliance logic; proficiency with Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, pandas, duckdb), Postgres/SQL, and AWS; strong communication and ownership.
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, pandas, duckdb, Postgres, SQL, AWS, LLMs, Playwright
3mo
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Staff Engineer - Backend Java
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$192k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Illumio
Illumio: Provides zero-trust segmentation software to contain cyberattacks.
Senior backend engineer with cloud architecture experience, strong Java/Python skills, and familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, REST, and infrastructure as code.
Java, Python, REST API, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring, CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS, Azure, GCP
3mo
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
San Francisco or Montreal
RemoteFull Time
Saris AI
Saris AI: Automates banking back-office workflows using autonomous AI agents.
Backend software engineer with Python (Django/Flask/FastAPI), TypeScript (React), Docker, AWS/GCP; design scalable distributed systems.
Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, Docker, AWS, GCP, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST, GraphQL
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$220k-$270k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Arena Club
Arena Club: Digital marketplace and vaulting service for sports collectibles
8+ YOE8+ years backend experience, strong Node.js/TypeScript/Postgres skills, observability (Datadog), AWS and Terraform experience, marketplace/eCommerce background, familiarity with AI coding tools, and leadership/mentorship ability.
Node.js, TypeScript, Redis, Postgres, BullMQ, Claude Code, Cursor, Datadog, AWS, S3, SNS, SQS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Python
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Building robotics and software to automate physical world industries.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems with Java/Go, experience with PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Redis, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), RESTful APIs, microservices, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, RESTful APIs, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
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Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
$224k-$284k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Atoms
Atoms: Building specialized industrial robots and physical AI systems.
8+ YOE8+ years building backend systems; proficiency in Java or Go; experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis; cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure); strong knowledge of RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems; Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience; mentoring experience.
Java, Go, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD