Backend Engineer jobs in San Francisco
17 open Backend Engineer roles in San Francisco at 11 companies, from company job boards. Newest first; open a listing to apply on the employer's own site.
This market right now
Who is hiring: Stripe (3), Airbyte (2), Airwallex (2), Lightning AI (2), Openai (2), Atlassian (1), Hightouch (1), Invisible Technologies (1) and others.
What Backend Engineer roles in San Francisco keep asking for: System design (59%), Observability (41%), Python (35%), GCP (29%), Kafka (29%), Kubernetes (29%), LLMs (29%), Microservices (29%) — counted across the newest postings here.
Backend Engineer jobs elsewhere
- Backend Engineer jobs in Germany70 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom69 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in the United States60 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in London45 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in India38 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in Berlin25 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in the Netherlands18 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in Canada18 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in Amsterdam16 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in Bengaluru14 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in Paris11 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in New York11 open
- Backend Engineer jobs in France11 open
- Remote Backend Engineer jobs140 open
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Find jobs that fit my CV- Staff Backend Engineer, Agent Infrastructure Airbyte · San Francisco · 2026-11-11
- Senior Backend Engineer, Agent InfrastructureAirbyte · San Francisco · 2026-11-05
- Staff Backend Engineer, Financial EngineeringOpenai · San Francisco · 2026-11-04
- Backend Engineer, Video StreamingLiveReach AI · San Francisco, Sunnyvale · 2026-10-28
- Backend Engineer, LinkStripe · NYC, Sea, SF, Tor · 2026-08-14
- Senior Backend Engineer, Managed ServicesLightning AI · New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States · 2026-07-27
- Senior Backend Engineer - ProductMercury · San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States · 2026-07-01
- Senior Backend Engineer, Agentic AI Airwallex · US - San Francisco · 2026-06-17
- Staff Backend Engineer, Agentic AI Airwallex · US - San Francisco · 2026-02-19
- Backend Engineer, Consumer DevicesOpenai · San Francisco · 2026-01-20
- Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid · 2025-11-11
- Backend Engineer, Developer & End-user Experience PlatformStripe · Toronto Canada, San Francisco, Remote in US, Remote in Canada · 2025-11-06
- Senior Backend Engineer, Inference PlatformTogether AI · San Francisco · 2025-08-22
- Backend Engineer, Core TechnologyStripe · US-Remote, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco · 2024-06-14
- Backend EngineerLightning AI · London, England, United Kingdom; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States · 2023-09-13
- Backend Engineer, PlatformHightouch · San Francisco · 2021-03-16
- Principal Backend EngineerAtlassian · San Francisco - United States - San Francisco, California 94104 United States, Remote - Remote
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