San Francisco, CA
Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco
The densest concentration of AI and infrastructure startups in the US, plus most large platform companies. Backend engineers build APIs, data models and services. Expect interview focus on schema design, concurrency, caching and API contracts.
- Open roles
- 11
- Remote-eligible
- 3
- Sponsorship signals
- 0
- Median salary
- —
Open backend engineer roles in San Francisco
- Backend EngineerVerkada · San Mateo, CA United StatesonsitemidQuick applyPosted 29 mins ago
- Senior Backend Engineer, Agent InfrastructureAirbyte · San Francisco · RemoteonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 2 hours ago
- Senior Backend Engineer, GrowthRobinhood · Menlo Park, CAonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 2 hours ago
- Software Engineer, BackendVercel · Hybrid - San Francisco, New York CityhybridmidQuick applyPosted 1 day ago
- Staff Backend Engineer, Financial EngineeringOpenAI · San Francisco · RemoteonsitestaffQuick applyPosted 1 day ago
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend PythonPaypal · San Jose, California, United States of AmericahybridstaffPosted 2 days ago
- Senior Backend Software Engineer (Arsenal 2)Anduril · Santa Ana, California, United StatesonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 2 days ago
- Senior Backend Software Engineer, Commercial Software & ServicesGeneral Motors · Sunnyvale, California, United States of AmericahybridseniorPosted 3 days ago
- Backend Engineer, PaymentsSpeak · San Francisco · RemoteonsitemidQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- Backend Software Engineer - University Graduate 2027Verkada · San Mateo, CA United StatesonsiteentryQuick applyPosted 3 days ago
- Senior Manager, Engineering, Core-backendCrusoe · San Francisco, CA - USonsiteseniorQuick applyPosted 6 days ago
Hiring in San Francisco right now
San Francisco employers posted 11 backend engineer roles in the last five days. Few of these listings publish a salary range; national bands for this role run $115k–$190k.
Local hiring skews toward Java, Go, Python, PostgreSQL. If your resume doesn't name those tools in the same words the job description uses, an ATS keyword filter is the most likely reason you never hear back.
Skills to lead with
- Java
- Go
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs
- Microservices
Companies hiring in San Francisco
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