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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,…
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.
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.
Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Back End Engineer based in the United States. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Back End Engineer to design, develop, and enhance reliable, scalable software solutions in a cloud-based environment.
As a senior backend engineer, you will shape multi-region, multi-tenant infrastructure, APIs, and vendor integrations that help product teams communicate with customers at scale.
You'll work across stacks and across the company, working both in just-in-time transaction processing that has to take place in milliseconds, along with our ledgering and reconciliation systems in post-transaction processing.
The Core team builds features and platform capabilities that power critical areas of the Pendo product experience. Our work supports high-stakes customer use cases, drives how our systems evolve, and creates a consistent experience across the platform.
The Core team builds features and platform capabilities that power critical areas of the Pendo product experience. Our work supports high-stakes customer use cases, drives how our systems evolve, and creates a consistent experience across the platform.
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.
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