Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $185,000 |
| Median | $210,000 |
| 75th percentile | $237,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 218 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 187 | $215,000 | $186,000 to $238,000 |
| Canada | USD | 5 | $213,000 | $200,000 to $215,000 |
You will build and scale the backend systems powering a new generation of AI-driven physical security products.
Every approval request, receipt reminder, payment alert, and card notification Ramp sends has to reach the right person, on the right channel, at the right time. When it does, finance teams close faster and employees spend less time chasing tasks.
Finance teams need a dependable way to turn everyday spending and payments into accurate books. When those systems work well, finance teams spend less time correcting data and more time understanding their business.
Architect, build, and operate high-scale distributed systems powering Docker Hub’s registry platform—spanning artifact storage, metadata services, indexing workflows, and performance-critical APIs.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 9d ago
Join an early-stage AI video company as a founding backend engineer. You will lead backend architecture and engineering practices while building systems that power generative video and agentic workflows.
Systems & Operations. Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services and platforms. Ensure fast, reliable feedback cycles for developers by optimizing build times, test coverage, and reporting.
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards.
As a Senior Software Engineer, your goal will be to ensure that our AI Agents are backed by the most reliable and scalable server solutions.
As a Technical Lead , you will serve as a recognized expert, driving architectural strategy and high-impact engineering initiatives for the Studio platform.
Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape. Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users.
It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
You'll partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Design, work alongside Airbnb's ML/AI and data platform teams, and integrate deeply with the core product to turn a rich understanding of the customer journey into differentiated, high-performing paid experiences.
We are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to help build the next generation of SoFi's digital asset custody platform.
Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes.
As Vanta expands its agentic capabilities across surfaces like MCP, CLI, and the Vanta Agent, the Identity team is at the center of a new set of problems: defining what it means for an agent to act as a user's proxy, enforcing consistent permission checks across every…
Design & Development: Build and maintain backend services with a focus on performance, reliability and scalability. Collaboration: Work closely with product managers and other stakeholders to define and implement new features that meet product and customer needs.
This job acts as a project leader, coordinating the activities of other engineers, determining technical tasks, and improving existing structures and processes.
As part of the Unity AI Gateway team, you'll build the control plane that every AI request at Databricks passes through: partner and self-hosted models, agents, coding assistants, and MCP servers.
Improve success rates against sites with aggressive defenses. Own the health, rotation, and cost efficiency of the proxy layer. Push throughput and reliability under heavy, spiky, real-world load. Debug hard, intermittent failures across the stack and make them stay fixed.
You will design, build, and operate the core services and platform capabilities behind Epiq AI Labs’ AI-driven legal platform — from backend services, APIs, and distributed systems to asynchronous workflows, data pipelines, secure multi-tenant capabilities, and the foundations…
CrowdStrike · 3d ago
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) Cloud team.
Design, build, and maintain Go-based automation that manages the full PostgreSQL lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning, reducing reactive operational work that currently takes more than 80% of the team's time.
Set the technical direction for the team's agentic systems, from how agents are orchestrated to where a step should stay human-owned, and defend those calls once they're tested against real code.
Drive end to end execution of technical projects, from ideation and design to deployment. Design and build resilient, large-scale systems from the ground up with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation. Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution.
Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform, defining the roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets.
Own the technical architecture of Transfers' fund movement systems, driving design decisions on distributed system structure, correctness guarantees, and scalability across crypto and fiat rails.
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Plan, execute, and own technical decisions and projects within the AI Platform team, from design through launch and on-call.
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
You will build and operate the control plane for large-scale distributed SQL databases such as MySQL and TiDB, automating provisioning, failover, backups and upgrades end to end.
As a Senior Software Engineer on Loan Origination and Reporting, you’ll build and scale the data platforms and services that process loan originations in real time and deliver accurate reporting to Affirm and its financial partners, strengthening the core financial engine…
You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
· You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. MDP operates at the boundary between Operational Technology and Information Technology.
Maritime Digital Production (MDP) is the software and digital systems function within Anduril's Heavy Metal division. MDP operates at the boundary between Operational Technology and Information Technology.
Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI.
Build the graph that decides who’s real. Every day, Socure’s Identity Graph helps businesses decide whether to trust the person on the other side of a screen.
ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities.
- Develop and maintain robust, scalable backend systems using Node.js (Express and NestJS). - Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to drive projects forward. - Tune and optimize database queries for maximum efficiency and performance.
At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.
LlamaIndex's backend application platform team is hiring for an experienced (4+ years) backend engineer excited to build new features and scale out our ingestion and AI systems!
As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a focused team of developers, product managers, and designers who are passionate about using technology to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbor they can rely on.
CrowdStrike · 24d ago
To enable this, the systems behind NG-SIEM are growing to accommodate >100 PB of event and action data ingested every day, up to 10 years of retention, and dozens of millions of queries per hour across large sections of the data stored.
Join Together AI to build the Inference Platform powering multi-tenant serverless workloads and dedicated endpoints for generative AI models. This role focuses on enabling developers with cutting-edge AI infrastructure.
The median Backend Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $210,000 a year, based on 218 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $185,000 to $237,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Backend Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Backend Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $500,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $185,000 and the 75th percentile is $237,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Backend Engineer listings are Affirm (24 listings, median $225,000), OpenAI (7 listings, median $356,000), Ramp (7 listings, median $242,000), Verkada (7 listings, median $225,000) and Coinbase (7 listings, median $202,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 12, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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