14 staff backend engineer jobs at 7 companies in San Diego, CA
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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 Software Engineer - Back End
San Diego or California or United States
$189k-$255k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOERequires a BS/MS in computer science or equivalent experience, 7+ years delivering enterprise applications, scalable coding, Java, testing, databases, cloud, microservices, Kubernetes, and AI integration expertise.
Java, TDD, Kubernetes, Mesos, SQL, NoSQL, LLM, AutoML
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Senior Staff AI Engineer
San Diego or California
$200k-$299k/yr OnsiteFull Time
12+ YOEBachelor's degree in CS/Engineering (or equivalent), 12+ years building backend/distributed systems or data/AI platforms; strong Java, Go, or Python skills; experience with SQL/NoSQL, cloud platforms, Kubernetes/Docker, CI/CD, and production observability.
Java, Go, Python, SQL, NoSQL, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD
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Staff Database Internals Engineer
San Diego or California
RemoteFull Time
Experience designing and building distributed control-plane/platform services, strong Kubernetes and cloud-native knowledge, API and orchestration design, identity (OIDC/SAML), backend programming (Go/Java/Python), and big-data platform familiarity.
Kubernetes, OIDC, SAML, Go, Java, Python, DataFusion, Trino, Presto, Spark, eBPF
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Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco or Los Angeles or Washington or San Diego or Seattle or London
$190k-$260k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Backend and cloud engineering fundamentals; Python, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, containers, CI/CD, distributed systems, or TypeScript/React preferred. Must be a U.S. Person and able to obtain a security clearance.
Python, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, TypeScript, React, CI/CD
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Staff AI Engineer
San Diego or Washington
$169k-$254k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's in CS/Engineering or equivalent, 8+ years building backend/distributed/data/AI platforms, strong Java/Go/Python, experience with SQL/NoSQL, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes and CI/CD.
Java, Go, Python, SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Staff Software Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$137k-$173k/yr OnsiteFull Time
10+ YOEBachelor's degree or equivalent, 10+ years software engineering experience, strong Java/Spring backend and modern JavaScript frontend skills, experience with REST, microservices, and enterprise-grade systems; technical leadership and mentorship experience.
Java, Spring MVC, Spring Security, JDBC, React, jQuery, Angular, Vue, JavaScript, REST, Microservices, SOLR, Tableau, Claude AI, Model Context Protocol (MCP)
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Staff AI Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
$169k-$254k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOEBachelor's or master's degree in a related field and 8+ years in software architecture, backend systems, Kubernetes, or AI infrastructure; expertise in agentic AI, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and software development.
Kubernetes, Open claw, Calude AP, LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, Agent Harness, Agent Skills, AWS, Azure, GC, Python, Go, Java, CI/CD, APIs
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Staff AI Engineer
San Diego or Washington
$169k-$254k/yr RemoteFull Time
8+ YOE8+ years building backend services or data/AI platforms; bachelor’s in CS or equivalent; strong proficiency in Java, Go, or Python; experience with distributed systems, SQL/NoSQL, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), Kubernetes and Docker.
Java, Go, Python, SQL, NoSQL, LLMs, vector databases, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, GCP
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Staff Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
San Francisco or Ottawa or Charlotte or Phoenix or Toronto or Los Angeles or Denver or Salt Lake City or Atlanta or Raleigh 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
$145k-$275k/yr RemoteFull Time
10+ YOE10+ years building backend, distributed, or data-intensive systems; production Rust and strong Python; storage and database expertise; AWS, infrastructure as code, operational excellence, technical leadership, and mentoring.
Rust, Python, Apache Arrow, Parquet, DataFusion, Amazon S3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon Aurora, Terraform, delta-rs, Claude Code
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Staff Software Engineer, GCS - Full Stack (R5192)
United States or San Diego or Dallas or Washington or Boston
$150k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOEBS/MS in CS or equivalent experience, typically 7+ years (or equivalent by higher degree), experience with modern frontend frameworks and full‑stack/backend languages, distributed systems, databases, and ability to obtain SECRET clearance.
React, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, C/C++, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Maplibre GL, Leaflet, CesiumJS, OpenLayers, WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, GStreamer, FFmpeg, Docker, Kubernetes, k3s/k3d, MAVLink, STANAG 4586, A-GRA, UCI, OMS, OpenAPI/Swagger
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Staff Engineer, Software, GCS - C++ (R5189)
United States or San Diego or Dallas or Washington or Boston
$150k-$230k/yr OnsiteFull Time
7+ YOEBS/MS or equivalent; typically 7+ years experience; strong C++, Qt/QML, QGroundControl experience; backend experience in C/C++, Python, TypeScript or Go; networked systems expertise; ability to obtain SECRET clearance.
C++, Qt, QML, QGroundControl (QGC), QGC Map Engine, Python, TypeScript, Go, UDP, TCP, Mapbox, Cesium, Esri, RTSP, WebRTC, GStreamer, H.264, H.265, Docker, Kubernetes, MAVLink, STANAG 4586
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Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Data Access Team
San Francisco or Pleasanton or Santa Clara or San Diego or Kirkland
$201k-$352k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE6–10+ years of software development experience depending on degree, with expert Java and backend platform skills, technical leadership, relational databases, distributed systems, testing, and production troubleshooting.
Java, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Trino, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, Unix shell, ServiceNow
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Senior Staff Data Platform Engineer - Data Access Team
Santa Clara or San Francisco or Pleasanton or San Diego or Kirkland
$201k-$352k/yr HybridFull Time
10+ YOE6–10+ years of software development experience depending on degree, expert Java and backend platform skills, relational database knowledge, distributed systems, automated testing, technical leadership, and AI integration experience.
Java, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Trino, JUnit, Selenium, TestNG, Unix shell, ServiceNow