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 |
At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about finding innovative solutions to complex technical problems , running countless experiments (300+ at a time!) with our massive user base to make data-driven decisions, and educating our users and employees alike.
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs.
A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.
Guide the design and implementation of a new LLVM based backend JIT compiler targeting NVIDIA GPUs. Design and develop new compiler passes and optimizations required to meet the high performance and low compilation time requirements of the compiler.
As a Senior Software Engineer on Verkada’s Growth Engineering team, you will build products and platforms that directly impact pipeline, revenue, and the effectiveness of our go-to-market teams.
Shape the technical direction of our distributed messaging systems in Go — making the high-level architectural calls on mission-critical services where scale, cost, and reliability are all in tension.
Brex · 1mo ago
As an engineer at Brex, you will help develop new products from concept to launch, whether for a 5-person startup or a 5,000-person-strong enterprise.
CHAOS Industries · 9d ago
Build high-performance Python services that ingest, process and distribute real-time sensor data with low latency, high reliability and security at scale. Build high-performance Python (FastAPI) services that ingest, process and distribute real-time data securely at scale.
As a primary entry point for customers’ data, ClickPipes is critical to product adoption and the company’s growth. We work at petabyte scale, solving challenges in distributed systems, fault tolerance, and high-throughput ingestion.
The AI/ML Engineering team builds and operates ClickHouse's AI and machine learning products end-to-end.
Build and evolve reusable backend platforms and tooling for performance testing and analysis. Create self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and artificial intelligence skills that reduce the need for bespoke support.
Saviynt · 4mo ago
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.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team, you’ll build the services and APIs that let NodeZero customers administer their organizations securely.
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Admin Experience team, you’ll build the services and APIs that let NodeZero customers administer their organizations securely.
Fanatics Betting & Gaming · 7d ago
As a Backend Staff Engineer at Fanatics Core, you are a recognized technical leader. You operate both strategically and hands-on while leading ambitious projects, and your solutions set the standard for the team.
As a Backend Staff Engineer at Fanatics Core, you are a recognized technical leader. You operate both strategically and hands-on while leading ambitious projects, and your solutions set the standard for the team.
ML Feature Platform is one of the two teams that compose the ML Platform at Affirm, the other team being ML Training & Serving Platform. The two platform teams work closely together to create the ML + Data flywheel that empowers Affirm.
We’re looking to hire a Staff Backend Software Engineer to join our team. In this capacity, you will contribute to the development of specialized tools for threat hunters, SOC analysts, and incident response professionals within the Censys Platform.
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design, build, ship, and own end-to-end product features used by thousands of developers and hundreds of millions of end-users. This is a hands-on IC role. We want someone that loves shipping products, not just code.
Growth is one of Robinhood’s highest-impact engineering areas where you’ll build the experiences and systems that shape acquisition, activation, and long-term customer engagement.
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.
We build software that gives employees real control over how they use their benefits. We’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer to design and build the core systems that power Thatch.
You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We don't just build the world's best quantum computers: we want them to be usable by everyone, everywhere.
System Design & Development: Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend or fullstack systems and APIs that power Plaid’s products.
Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end.
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.
As a Software Engineer on our Intelligence & Integrations team, you will be a key player in this mission.
As part of the AI Platform team, you’ll build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search.
At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next mode of transportation a reality to accelerating the development of medical breakthroughs.
Work with technical leaders in the team to design and implement insightful forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems.
We’re looking for an exceptional backend engineer who wants substantial ownership of that system: someone with the technical depth to solve difficult problems, the drive to move quickly, and the discipline to deliver software people can depend on.
We’re looking for an exceptional backend engineer who wants substantial ownership of that system: someone with the technical depth to solve difficult problems, the drive to move quickly, and the discipline to deliver software people can depend on.
With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
High Country Search GroupNew · 1d ago
Build scalable systems and components, making the right tradeoffs to account for stability and long-term maintainability. Design, write, test, and release product-facing features with stringent correctness and scalability requirements.
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Build backend services and AI agents for finance workflows, owning a small module of the product from design through production and working closely with the people who run the process today.
Databricks · 1y ago
As part of the ML/AI Environments team you will build the system that enables the AI researchers and engineers to set up their desired training and serving environments.
You will be one of the first engineers to own Bantyr's backend end to end: the API, the data model, the money paths and the infrastructure underneath them. You report to the CTO and work alongside our chief engineer.
Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products.
Deepgram is looking for a Backend Software Engineer to join the Engine team to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products.
Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s Voice Agent product.
CrowdStrike · 3d ago
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) Cloud team.
CrowdStrike · 9d 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.
As part of the AI Platform team, you’ll build the substrate that powers everything from data apps, AI agents, model training, model serving, and vector search.
Integrate new blockchains, decentralized exchanges, and launchpads into the main Coinbase app to unlock more onchain assets for millions of traders.
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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