30 staff backend engineer jobs at 20 companies in Boston, MA
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Staff Backend Engineer
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
$140k-$170k/yr HybridFull Time
Strong object-oriented Python experience, API design and production experience, building and scaling backend systems, collaboration and mentorship skills.
Python
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$180k-$200k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years experience, degree in relevant field required, mastery of Java, Linux, and AWS; REST API design; DevOps/SRE and production experience; security and privacy knowledge.
Java, Linux, AWS, REST APIs, Cassandra, MySQL, Kafka, Python
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Boston or United States
$151k-$309k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years building backend services; proficient in Java or Kotlin; experience with microservices, containerization, databases, API and service design; React experience; strong communication and technical leadership.
Kotlin, Java, React, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
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Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
Boston or Cambridge
HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend development with 2+ years in a staff/principal role; deep Python and FastAPI experience; distributed systems, SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL, GCP, AI/LLM integration, technical leadership, RFCs and architecture design.
Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic AI, FastMCP, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Redis, REST, WebSockets, SSE, MCP, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, OpenAI, Vertex AI Model Garden, Mistral OCR, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS, VPCs, IAM, Auth0, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions, Logfire, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-cov
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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Everand Core
San Francisco or Ottawa or Phoenix or Toronto or Los Angeles or Denver or Salt Lake City or Atlanta or Chicago or Houston or Portland or New York City or Vancouver or San Diego or Sacramento or Jacksonville or Seattle or Mexico City or Austin or Miami or Boston or Dallas or Charlotte
$141k-$267k/yr HybridFull Time
Significant backend engineering experience building and scaling distributed systems; strong coding in Ruby/Scala/Go/Python; expertise in reliability, observability, SLOs, and mentoring; cross-functional collaboration experience.
Ruby, Scala, Go, Python
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer
North Bethesda or Waltham
$200k-$220k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOESenior ML engineer owning end-to-end ML systems, with cloud, MLOps, Python, and scalable backend experience.
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
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Staff Software Engineer
Boston or Kyiv or Seattle or Lviv or San Francisco
HybridFull Time
7+ YOE7-10+ years in engineering with 5+ years in infrastructure/platform/backend; Kubernetes internals; Python/Go; multi-cloud or hybrid deployments; IaC; GitOps; strong mentoring and leadership.
Kubernetes, Python, Go, Helm, Terraform, Pulumi, Kyverno, Cilium, GitOps, CI/CD
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Sr. Staff Engineer - Customer Agent
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$216k-$324k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale; expertise in AI-powered products, agentic systems, backend engineering, distributed systems, LLM applications, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, and reliability.
LLM, AI
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Staff Software Engineer, Lab Software
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
$192k-$256k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend-focused engineering; full stack web development; experience with AI coding assistants; strong cross-functional collaboration.
React, TypeScript, Tailwind, FastAPI, SQL, NoSQL, Python, Pydantic, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Temporal
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Staff Software Engineer - Vet Care
Boston or Bellevue
$166k-$265k/yr OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOELead backend-focused engineer with 15+ years, expert in Java/JavaScript, microservices, AWS; strong architecture, mentoring, DevOps; BS in CS or related field.
Java, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, AWS ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS Lambda, React, Vue, Angular, Spring Boot, TypeScript, Cypress, Jest, Terraform, Ansible
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Staff Software Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$144k-$169k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent,10+ years backend engineering experience,proven Staff-level impact leading large cross-team initiatives,deep backend/platform expertise (APIs,event-driven systems),experience with AI-assisted development workflows.
.NET/C#, SQL Server, Kafka, gRPC, REST, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Staff Software Engineer (Data), TVision
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$180k-$210k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS; 8+ years backend and distributed data systems; Python; batch/streaming pipelines; AWS; DevOps/CI/CD; containerized web services; relational DBs; big data tech (Spark/Databricks/Flink); collaboration with data science.
Python, AWS, Spark, Databricks, Flink, CI/CD, Containers
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Staff Software Engineer
St. Louis or Burlington
$111k-$166k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Engineering/Data Science, 3+ years in ML/data/search systems, strong Python, backend and data engineering experience, SQL, cloud (GCP/AWS), and production ML/LLM system design.
Python, REST API, Pandas, NumPy, MLFlow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, AWS Services, GCP, Kubernetes, Bedrock, Kafka, LangGraph, LangChain, AirFlow, Qdrant, Docker, Git, CI/CD, SQL
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Staff Software Engineer
St. Louis or Burlington
$111k-$166k/yr HybridFull Time
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in a quantitative field and 3+ years in machine learning, data science, search relevance, or ranking systems; strong Python, backend, data engineering, and AI systems expertise.
Python, MLFlow, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, RESTful APIs, SQL, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Bedrock, Kafka, LangGraph, LangChain, AirFlow, Qdrant, Pandas, NumPy, Claude
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Staff Software Engineer - Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$174k-$205k/yr HybridFull Time
Proven cross-team technical leadership, system architecture and observability experience; hands-on backend engineering (Python, AWS); mentorship and product-engineering mindset; familiarity with AI-enabled tooling.
Python, AWS, Notion, Jira, GitHub, Slack
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Senior Staff Software Engineer
Austin or Nashua or Minneapolis
OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's or equivalent,10+ years software development,7+ years backend,distributed systems and SQL expertise,Java preferred,cloud-native and query engine/DSL experience.
NetScript, Java, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, SQL
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform
Boston or United States
$170k-$200k/yr RemoteFull Time
Experienced engineer to build and operate large-scale, low-latency data services; strong backend skills in Go, cloud services, and data storage; leadership and mentoring experience.
Go, Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, postgres, iceberg, elasticsearch, RESTful, GraphQL, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift, Databricks, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, FHIR, TEFCA
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Staff Software Engineer - User Systems
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
$147k-$215k/yr HybridFull Time
Hands-on software engineer with leadership experience in backend systems, APIs, and cloud services; strong collaboration and communication.
JavaScript, TypeScript, Rust, Java, Go, Python, CSharp, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, REST, gRPC
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Staff Software Engineer
Boston or Toronto
$167k-$245k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Proofpoint: Provides cybersecurity solutions for email, cloud, and data protection.
10+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent and 10+ years in distributed systems and backend architecture. Requires cloud, database, streaming, processing, and programming expertise.
DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, Flink, Spark, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Kinesis, Beam, NodeJs, Go, Java, Scala, Rust, Python, C, C++, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Neptune, Neo4J, AWS, GCP, Azure, SOC2, ISO, GDPR
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Staff / Principal Software Engineer
San Francisco or Boston
$220k-$290k/yr HybridFull Time
Significant experience building and operating production backend systems at scale; strong Python or other backend language skills; deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), distributed systems, data pipelines/ETL, strong SQL and cloud data warehouses; mentorship and cross-team communication skills.
Python, AWS, Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Lambda, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, SQL, macOS, SSO, RBAC
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