Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $181,000 |
| Median | $203,000 |
| 75th percentile | $225,000 |
| Lowest listing | $121,000 |
| Highest listing | $500,000 |
| Listings counted | 94 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Affirm | 12 | $225,000 |
| CrowdStrike | 5 | $180,000 |
| Coinbase | 4 | $202,000 |
| Databricks | 4 | $194,000 |
| True Talent Solutions Partners | 3 | $300,000 |
| Verkada | 3 | $230,000 |
| Plaid | 3 | $227,000 |
| Robinhood | 3 | $213,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 80 | $205,000 | $185,000 to $225,000 |
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Inflection, you will own the platforms, systems, and services that bring our conversational AI to life at scale.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 4d ago
Join the backend engineering team at a consumer gaming company, building features and systems that support core business goals. You will take ownership of substantial engineering work and help the team ship effectively as it grows.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 10d ago
Join the engineering team at a consumer gaming company to build backend systems and features that support its core business. You will own projects end to end, solve data-driven challenges, and help the team deliver at a fast pace.
True Talent Solutions PartnersNew · 22h ago
Join the backend team for a no-code customer data activation product that helps users build audiences and sync warehouse data to downstream tools.
Access Control is our second major product line. Our Access Control solution allows users to manage their doors, schedules, and user credentials from virtually anywhere on their laptop or phone.
As a Backend Software Engineer on the Product Engineering team at Harvey, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with our AI, Legal, and GTM teams to build secure systems that deliver value to our customers.
Buying software and services is still slow and fragmented at most companies.
Paying vendors is one of the most manual, error-prone jobs in finance. Invoices arrive by email and PDF, get keyed in by hand, wait on approvals, and then have to be paid on time, by the right method, for the right amount, and recorded correctly in the books.
You will build and scale the backend systems powering a new generation of AI-driven physical security products.
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.
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.
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.
CrowdStrike · 3d ago
CrowdStrike is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer to join our AI Detection and Response (AIDR) Cloud team.
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.
ClickUp is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Search Engineer to join our team and help revolutionize our search capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
The median Senior Backend Engineer salary in our $100k+ listings is $203,000 a year, based on 94 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $181,000 to $225,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $100k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Senior Backend Engineer roles overall.
Individual $100k+ Senior Backend Engineer listings range from $121,000 to $500,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $181,000 and the 75th percentile is $225,000.
The companies with the most open $100k+ Senior Backend Engineer listings are Affirm (12 listings, median $225,000), CrowdStrike (5 listings, median $180,000), Coinbase (4 listings, median $202,000), Databricks (4 listings, median $194,000) and True Talent Solutions Partners (3 listings, median $300,000).
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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