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Founding Backend / Infra Engineer
Cupertino, CA, US
$160k-$300k/yr On-SiteFull Time
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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Staff Backend Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
$200k-$300k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years software engineering experience, strong engineering fundamentals, autonomy, experience optimizing realtime systems and analytics, ability to solve complex technical problems.
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco or New York City or Seattle
$405k-$485k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ years backend or product engineering; lead multi-month projects; distributed systems; API design; cloud infra; strong cross-team communication.
API design, Distributed systems, Cloud infrastructure, Backend programming
2mo
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Staff Backend Engineer (Application Infra)
Seattle or Mountain View
$164k-$282k/yr HybridFull Time
6+ YOE6 years backend development; BS in CS/EE/Math; Java and Spring; AWS; distributed systems experience.
Java, Spring Framework, AWS, Kubernetes, Temporal, Cadence, Cassandra, TiDB, Python
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Staff Backend Engineer (Application Infra)
Mountain View or Seattle
$164k-$282k/yr OnsiteFull Time
6+ YOE6+ years backend software development; Bachelor's in CS/EE/Math; Java + Spring; AWS; experience building highly available distributed systems.
Java, Spring Framework, AWS, Distributed Systems, Python
2mo
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Backend Staff Software Engineer
Austin or Bellevue
$132k-$210k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years relevant work experience or 2 years with advanced degree; experience in software engineering; web/mobile apps; leadership or cross-functional collaboration; debugging and testing; developing scalable services.
Java, C++, HTML, Angular, React, Kubernetes, Docker
4w
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Denver or Beaverton or Seattle or Springfield or Bengaluru
$172k-$223k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend experience with Node.js/TypeScript, AWS (EKS, MSK/Kafka, S3), document databases (DocumentDB/MongoDB), Terraform, observability and on‑call practices; strong system design and technical leadership skills.
Node.js, TypeScript, Express, AWS, EKS, MSK (Kafka), Kafka, S3, Lambda, DocumentDB, MongoDB, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, Terraform, Kubernetes
3w
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Staff Backend Software Engineer
Atlanta or Austin or Boston or Washington DC or Seattle or Houston or Raleigh or Dallas or United States
$300k-$400k/yr RemoteFull Time
Experience building distributed systems (Scala preferred), designing AI-assisted development workflows and feedback loops, strong product thinking, ability to ship end-to-end features, and familiarity with cloud services and modern stacks.
Scala, GCP services, React, TypeScript, Go, Python, Java
2w
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Backend / Server Engineer (Senior or Staff)
Seattle, Washington, United States
$180k-$245k/yr HybridFull Time
5+ YOE5+ years software engineering experience, BSc in Computer Science or equivalent, expert in a statically typed language (Java or TypeScript), familiarity with SQL/no-SQL, customer-facing collaboration skills.
Node.js, TypeScript, React, React-Native, Google Cloud Platform, SQL, no-SQL
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend - RQL
San Francisco or Seattle
$189k-$315k/yr OnsiteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering experience, strong distributed-systems and backend coding skills, experience mentoring, and familiarity with big data and related technologies.
Python, MongoDB, CDC, Kafka, Aurora, Trino, Presto, Pinot, Iceberg, Flink, RQL
2mo
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Staff Software Engineer (Backend) - Fable Core
San Francisco or Atlanta or Austin or Boston or Chicago or Dallas or Denver or Houston or Jacksonville or Los Angeles or Miami or New York City or Phoenix or Portland or Sacramento or Salt Lake City or San Diego or Seattle or Washington, D.C. or Ottawa or Toronto or Vancouver or Mexico City
HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend experience; Python/Django; cloud ops; incident ownership; cross-functional collaboration.
Python/Django, Postgres, Kubernetes, Datadog, GCP, AWS
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Staff Software Engineer, Creator Backend Systems
Santa Monica or Palo Alto or Bellevue
$195k-$343k/yr OnsiteFull Time
9+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent,9+ years software development,1+ year technical leadership,experience with distributed systems and operating high-scale services,proficiency with backend engineering and AI tools.
Java, C++, Go, NoSQL, Memcache, Redis, Kubernetes, Google, AWS, AI tools
2d
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Staff Software Engineer, Creator Backend Systems
Santa Monica or Palo Alto or Bellevue
$195k-$343k/yr OnsiteFull Time
9+ YOE9+ years software development experience, 1+ year technical leadership, experience with large-scale distributed backend systems and on-call ownership.
Java, C++, Go, NoSQL, Memcache, Redis, Kubernetes, Google services, AWS services
2mo
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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Product)
Seattle or Mountain View
$210k-$275k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building and scaling complex systems; deep system design expertise for data-intensive/distributed systems; experience owning technical/product direction and leading cross-team initiatives; strong communication and product intuition.
1mo
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Staff Engineer
Madrid or Paris or Seattle or London or Berlin or San Francisco or New York City or Sydney or Mexico City
HybridFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years backend engineering experience (Node.js/TypeScript, Python, or Ruby), strong system design, security and DevOps practices, AWS experience, ability to lead cross-team projects and mentor engineers.
TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Python, REST API, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails, React, Serverless, EKS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Redis
2mo
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Staff Test Automation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
$166k-$240k/yr OnsiteFull Time
15+ YOE15+ years in automated verification, DevOps/CI, HITL/SITL, Python, and scalable testing across frontend/backend.
Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
2mo
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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
2mo
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Staff Software Engineer
Dearborn or Seattle or Palo Alto
$133k-$284k/yr HybridFull Time
7+ YOEBachelor's in CS/CE or equivalent; 7+ yrs software engineering; 5+ yrs backend API (Java/Kotlin); 5+ yrs PostgreSQL; 5+ yrs cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure); English proficiency.
Kotlin, Springboot, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Cloud Platform
5d
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Staff Software Engineer - Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
$232k-$258k/yr HybridFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend engineering experience, proficiency in Golang or Java, distributed systems design and operation, experience shipping customer-facing products, and mentoring experience.
Golang, Java
1mo
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Staff Software Engineer, Agentic Platform (West Coast)
San Francisco or Seattle
$170k-$276k/yr RemoteFull Time, Full Time
8+ YOE8+ years backend/infrastructure, cloud platform, on-call, distributed systems, Go/Python/Rust/Java, BS CS or equivalent
Go, Python, Rust, Java, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, PostgreSQL, Redis
2mo
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Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack
San Francisco or New York City or Toronto or Seattle
$220k-$250k/yr HybridFull Time
Experience building product systems end-to-end; frontend (JavaScript, React/React Native) or backend (Python); cross-stack collaboration; product-minded; ambiguity tolerance; mentoring engineers.
JavaScript, React, React Native, Python
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