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 |
Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for payment processing using Go, ensuring high reliability and correctness for financial transactions at scale.
Build and scale real-time invariant enforcement systems across Coinbase's fund flows, contributing to the core detection engine, invariant framework, and onboarding tooling that partner teams rely on.
Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer.
The Vertical Experiences team builds the experiences that bring pets into the family — pet profiles, activity timelines, care coordination, lost pet alerts, and third-party integrations.
Collaborate closely with our leadership team and cross-functional partners to build thoughtful, impactful features that serve both workers and businesses. Take the lead on key initiatives, guiding projects from design through implementation, delivery and ongoing improvement.
Build the data foundation that connects neural recordings to scientific discovery. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape our backend architecture, data model, database design, and the services that make recordings accessible and useful.
SentinelOneNew · 2d ago
If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.
CrowdStrikeNew · 1d ago
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Engineer III for the NG-SIEM (next generation security information and event management) Global Serverless Platform team in the US.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world.
Ability to work East Coast hours required. We’re not your traditional tech company and we don’t aim to be. Going against the grain is in our DNA. Building a revolutionary product begins with revolutionary thinking. That’s why we value diversity of background and lived experience.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Blockworks, you’ll design, build, and maintain the systems that power our products end-to-end. From high-performance APIs to database architecture, you’ll own the backend layer that makes everything else possible.
TRM Labs · 2mo ago
The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Individuals on the team are tasked to lead projects as technical anchors, and given a chance to grow and take ownership according to their level and goals.
The AI Engineering team builds the systems, workflows, and infrastructure behind TRM’s AI-native products.
The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Individuals on the team are tasked to lead projects as technical anchors, and given a chance to grow and take ownership according to their level and goals.
Build a foundational platform enabling us to reconcile each transaction across systems, partners, and cash movements. Build and integrate data pipelines from a variety of products and systems.
Join the Ordering Pod as a Senior Software Engineer to own the development of our high-revenue, flagship AI ordering product .
As a Senior Backend Engineer on the App Systems team, you'll be a high-ownership contributor to Fondue — Postscript's cashback, discounting, and incentives product — as well as broader offers and incentives infrastructure across the platform.
As a Software Engineer on LaunchDarkly’s SDK team, you will build the primary touchpoint that our customers interact with on a daily basis. You’ll work with multiple technologies across our 35+ SDKs while enabling customers of all kinds to feature flag their code.
As a Backend Engineer at Spade, you'll own the APIs and data systems that sit at the heart of our enrichment platform.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 9d ago
Join an early-stage healthtech team as a founding engineer, owning the backend systems behind clinical and financial workflows. You will build infrastructure that processes complex healthcare data and supports clinical AI capabilities in production.
Design and evolve distributed systems in Go to handle billions of daily events and messages and store and index petabytes of data. Lead architectural decisions around performance, reliability, and real-time event processing.
Design and build distributed systems in Go that help customers send timely, relevant messages at scale. Collaborate across teams to debug issues and deliver reliable solutions. Own problems end to end - from architecture and schema design to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Fanatics Betting & Gaming · 7d ago
As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics Core, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
As a Backend Engineer at Fanatics Core, you'll design, develop, test, and maintain scalable, high-quality systems to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Design, implement, and operate our most critical and scalable services - ranging from user identity services, friend graph, and our core persistence layer.
You will join the core Webex Signaling team, which powers calling, meetings, screen sharing, whiteboarding, transcription, and many other Webex experiences. Our globally distributed team builds and operates the microservices through which major Webex workloads flow.
Pyyne is seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer with experience in Python and LLM-based systems to work as a consultant out of our New York Office. This is a high-impact role for Pyyne as we build up our Applied AI services and continue to create real business value for our clients.
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're looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Repository Services team in GitLab's Create stage. The team owns the repository side of Source Code: how code gets into a repository, who may change it, and how those changes are verified.
Uber has evolved from a ride-hailing service into an all-in-one platform, connecting users globally through various on-demand offerings across UberX and UberEats.
Develop and improve a new software product that manages customer orders across a multi-sensor constellation of satellites. Interface w ith teams to help design the customer-facing interfaces and the back-end pipeline that goes from a plan to onboard exec ution.
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (fuboTV Media Inc - New York, NY). Architect, design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend software systems and microservices using Go (Golang) to support mobile (Android/iOS), web, and smart TV platforms.
Build durable systems. Design and implement Java services, Temporal workflows, and Kafka-based event pipelines, and help clients adopt durable execution and event streaming the right way — from first workflow to production scale. Lead modernization efforts.
Lead the design and delivery of complex risk platform features end-to-end, from architecture through implementation, deployment, and monitoring, with stringent requirements for correctness, performance, and reliability.
We build Tempo , the open-source distributed tracing backend behind Grafana Cloud Traces and Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Tempo makes it easy to search traces, generate metrics from spans, and connect tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles across the Grafana stack.
Built on open source and open standards and designed for interoperability across any stack, Grafana Cloud brings AI to observability and observability to AI, giving teams (and their agents) unified visibility so they can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data,…
CrowdStrike · 3d ago
We are seeking an Engineer III to be part of the Data Onboarding Team under NG-SIEM.
The Credit Platform team builds the core foundation behind PayPal’s global credit ecosystem, powering PayPal’s credit products like Credit Cards, Buy Now Pay Later, Working Capital, and Merchant Term Loans for millions of customers and businesses worldwide.
Build and Evolve the Medical Data Server: Collaborate with engineers across the Clinical Data team to design, build, and operate the Python backend services and RESTful APIs responsible for managing clinical data.
IntelliPro Group Inc. · 8d ago
We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help us redefine customer interactions and loyalty through AI.
We're looking for our second engineer to help build out our core backend infrastructure, including trading systems, APIs, brokerage integrations, databases, and risk management tools.
We're looking for our second engineer to help build out our core backend infrastructure, including trading systems, APIs, brokerage integrations, databases, and risk management tools.
We’re hiring a senior backend engineer to design and build the distributed systems at the core of the Takt platform.
Everyone deserves to be paid reliably - help us make it happen! Apply at https://nivelo.io/careers.
Join Adobe’s distinguished team as a Senior Backend Engineer – Cloud Platform based in San Jose, CA. Play a key role in delivering superior digital experiences by developing strong solutions that boost efficiency and achievement for our internal teams.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll deliver new features, improve performance and reliability, reduce technical debt, and help shape backend standards and long-term strategy.
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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