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  1. PHP
  2. .NET
  3. Java
  4. C++
  5. C

Backend Engineer Jobs in SF Bay Area

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A Backend Engineer position includes many different responsibilities like the creation and design of system architecture and services, as well as building robust, scalable software using programming languages like Ruby, Java and Scala. Backend Engineers improve code quality using performing code reviews, automation and writing unit tests. Backend Engineers frequently collaborate with other members of the technical team, including Frontend Engineers. They also work with design teams to understand end-user needs and transform them into a technical solution. Backend Engineers should also know OOP, software design, Linux/Unix and scripting languages such as Python and Perl.

Living and Working in the San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area is a dynamic city to work in with plenty of job opportunities in a variety of fields and industries including business, finance and technology. This picturesque city is located in Northern California and is headquarters to five different top banking institutions. It is also the headquarters to other well-known corporations such as Craiglist, Uber, Lyft, Gap and Levi Strauss. Popular Social Media sites such as Pinterest and Twitter are also located here. There are two universities in the city. San Francisco also ranks as the city with the 7th highest incomes.

There are numerous things to do and see in San Francisco. It has multiple diverse districts like North Beach, Chinatown and the Financial District. It is also home to cable cars and the most crooked street in the world. The San Francisco Bay Area also has a vibrant cultural scene and a wide array of restaurants.

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Based on real Hired interview data, Backend Engineers in SF Bay Area earn an average annual salary of
Based on real Hired interview data, Backend Engineers in SF Bay Area earn an average annual salary of
$170,483
The salaries of candidates in this role range from a low of $110,000 to a high of $217,000, with a median salary of $171,000.

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Sr. Salesforce Engineer
Sr. Salesforce Engineer
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to...
Sr. Salesforce Engineer
Sr. Salesforce Engineer
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to...
Technical Lead Engineer, Backend
Technical Lead Engineer, Backend
Job Overview:<br><br>A Technical Lead Engineer, Backend is a hands-on lead engineer role who is responsible for the delivery of software core components/projects within a system and can lead the te...
Technical Lead Engineer, Backend
Technical Lead Engineer, Backend
Job Overview:<br><br>A Technical Lead Engineer, Backend is a hands-on lead engineer role who is responsible for the delivery of software core components/projects within a system and can lead the te...
Software Engineer - Backend Java
Software Engineer - Backend Java
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are excited about our product and seek to de...
Software Engineer - Backend Java
Software Engineer - Backend Java
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are excited about our product and seek to de...
Technical Lead, Java
Technical Lead, Java
Job Overview:<br><br>As a Technical Lead - Java, you will work closely with Technical Leads, Architects, other Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and Quality Engineers amongst others in a highl...
Technical Lead, Java
Technical Lead, Java
Job Overview:<br><br>As a Technical Lead - Java, you will work closely with Technical Leads, Architects, other Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and Quality Engineers amongst others in a highl...
Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer<br><br>San Francisco, USA<br><br>Apply<br><br>We are a digitally native company where innovation, design and engineering meet scale. We use the latest technologies in the digital a...
Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer<br><br>San Francisco, USA<br><br>Apply<br><br>We are a digitally native company where innovation, design and engineering meet scale. We use the latest technologies in the digital a...
Backend Engineer - Identity Services
Backend Engineer - Identity Services
Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 50 countries. With the success of our flagship product, Coinbase Consumer, and...
Backend Engineer - Identity Services
Backend Engineer - Identity Services
Coinbase has built the world's leading compliant cryptocurrency platform serving over 30 million accounts in more than 50 countries. With the success of our flagship product, Coinbase Consumer, and...
Systems Engineer - Financial Services
Systems Engineer - Financial Services
Overview<br><br>Exciting pre-sales opportunity supporting some of SAS's largest financial services customers leveraging the latest SAS software and solutions. As a Systems Engineer you will provide...
Systems Engineer - Financial Services
Systems Engineer - Financial Services
Overview<br><br>Exciting pre-sales opportunity supporting some of SAS's largest financial services customers leveraging the latest SAS software and solutions. As a Systems Engineer you will provide...
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Exelixis is growing and the IT Infrastructure needs to grow and evolve to continue to enable the business. We are looking for a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to support our on-premise and Cloud-based...
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Exelixis is growing and the IT Infrastructure needs to grow and evolve to continue to enable the business. We are looking for a Sr. Infrastructure Engineer to support our on-premise and Cloud-based...
Senior Software Engineer, C++/Splunk Core/Troubleshooting
Senior Software Engineer, C++/Splunk Core/Troubleshooting
Join us as we pursue our disruptive new vision to make machine data accessible, usable and valuable to everyone. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to...
Senior Software Engineer, C++/Splunk Core/Troubleshooting
Senior Software Engineer, C++/Splunk Core/Troubleshooting
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Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
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Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer
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Software Engineer - Back-End: Simulation & Validation
Software Engineer - Back-End: Simulation & Validation
Zoox's simulation team is looking for highly talented software engineers who can architect and develop the scalable infrastructure for software validation through simulation. Your work will directl...
Software Engineer - Back-End: Simulation & Validation
Software Engineer - Back-End: Simulation & Validation
Zoox's simulation team is looking for highly talented software engineers who can architect and develop the scalable infrastructure for software validation through simulation. Your work will directl...
Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
Email is the universal communication tool for work. It's where you discuss work, answer questions, and talk to all of your customers, vendors, and partners. But email wasn't made for business and h...
Infrastructure Engineer
Infrastructure Engineer
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Systems Integration Engineer
Systems Integration Engineer
As a Systems Integration Engineer, you will work with multi-disciplinary engineers with backgrounds in AI, mechatronics, computer vision, and robotics. You will liaise with our software organizatio...
Systems Integration Engineer
Systems Integration Engineer
As a Systems Integration Engineer, you will work with multi-disciplinary engineers with backgrounds in AI, mechatronics, computer vision, and robotics. You will liaise with our software organizatio...
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
As a systems engineer in Advanced Hardware Engineering (AHE), you will be responsible for developing and documenting component requirements for sensor, computer, and control modules. You will inter...
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
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Sr. Backend Engineer
Sr. Backend Engineer
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Sr. Backend Engineer
Sr. Backend Engineer
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Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
At Zoox you will be responsible for solving challenging distributed systems problems and scaling state of the art algorithms. You will be working with cutting edge hardware and pushing systems to t...
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
Software Engineer - Infrastructure
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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a new kind of philanthropy that's leveraging technology to help solve some of the world's toughest...
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a new kind of philanthropy that's leveraging technology to help solve some of the world's toughest...
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
As a systems engineer at Zoox, you will be working with members of the functional safety and system design teams to develop and deploy systems that enable and support autonomous driving. You are re...
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
As a systems engineer at Zoox, you will be working with members of the functional safety and system design teams to develop and deploy systems that enable and support autonomous driving. You are re...
Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
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Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
Credit Karma is taking the convoluted world of personal finances and making it easy to understand. We are uniquely positioned to help our 80 million (and counting!) users take control of their fina...
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
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Software Engineer, Backend (Multiple levels)
Software Engineer, Backend (Multiple levels)
The Climate Corporation is modernizing the agriculture industry with a platform and products that are helping the world's farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools. Our backend s...
Software Engineer, Backend (Multiple levels)
Software Engineer, Backend (Multiple levels)
The Climate Corporation is modernizing the agriculture industry with a platform and products that are helping the world's farmers sustainably increase productivity with digital tools. Our backend s...
Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
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Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
Infrastructure Engineer, Site Reliability
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Software Engineer - Integration Tools
Software Engineer - Integration Tools
The Hardware-Software Integration team at Zoox is responsible for ensuring various hardware subsystems work reliably on our vehicle platform on a day-to-day basis to enable software development. As...
Software Engineer - Integration Tools
Software Engineer - Integration Tools
The Hardware-Software Integration team at Zoox is responsible for ensuring various hardware subsystems work reliably on our vehicle platform on a day-to-day basis to enable software development. As...
Compute Systems Engineer
Compute Systems Engineer
This position is on the Production Operations Team responsible for Zoox's application, compute, and storage infrastructure. A successful candidate for this role will have strong project management ...
Compute Systems Engineer
Compute Systems Engineer
This position is on the Production Operations Team responsible for Zoox's application, compute, and storage infrastructure. A successful candidate for this role will have strong project management ...
Software Engineer - HMI Systems
Software Engineer - HMI Systems
The Role<br><br>We're looking for a candidate who is well-versed in C/C++ and familiar with writing system software on Linux. As a systems programmer you have a passion for designing, implementing ...
Software Engineer - HMI Systems
Software Engineer - HMI Systems
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Software Engineer, Backend
Software Engineer, Backend
As a member of our Cloud Engineering team, you will be working on our flagship product, the Meraki Dashboard, which is the industry's only end-to-end cloud solution that unifies WAN, LAN, wireless ...
Software Engineer, Backend
Software Engineer, Backend
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Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
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Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
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Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
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Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Founded by Dr. Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a new kind of philanthropy that's leveraging technology to help solve some of the world's toughest...
Staff Backend Engineer
Staff Backend Engineer
We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our team at Eaze. You'll be working on mission critical parts of our technology platform, and helping us build a long-term scalable system ...
Staff Backend Engineer
Staff Backend Engineer
We're looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our team at Eaze. You'll be working on mission critical parts of our technology platform, and helping us build a long-term scalable system ...
Systems Engineer - Core Team
Systems Engineer - Core Team
Are you ready to join the API revolution?<br><br>As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support with f...
Systems Engineer - Core Team
Systems Engineer - Core Team
Are you ready to join the API revolution?<br><br>As a Systems Engineer in the Core Team, you will be working on core features such as proxying capabilities, load balancing, databases support with f...

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Top Skills for Backend Engineers

  1. PHP
  2. .NET
  3. Java
  4. C++
  5. C