Backend & Systems Jobs

1277 open roles across 7 related skills · Avg salary $250k (559 with data)

Backend engineering, distributed systems, and API development at AI companies

backendgopythonrustmicroservicesapi-designdistributed-systems
agents 1530 autonomous-vehicles 410 cloud 927 computer-vision 412 data-pipeline 709 deep-learning 494 distributed-systems 956 fine-tuning 525 generative-ai 1296 healthcare 609 infrastructure 359 llm 1753 machine-learning 397 mlops 382 payments 760 pytorch 695 reinforcement-learning 371 research 503 robotics 599 search 536

Software Engineer I, Monetization ML

Twitch · San Francisco, CA · $127k - $185k
cloud llm payments mlops distributed-systems
On-site full-time junior 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (Fullstack)

Okta · Chicago, IL · $147k - $221k
rag llm generative-ai fine-tuning embeddings code-generation microservices agents
On-site full-time senior 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Simulator Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
api-design diffusion-models robotics generative-ai llm distributed-systems search autonomous-vehicles
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Data & ML Pipeline Software Engineer

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $125k - $222k
mlops robotics distributed-systems data-pipeline autonomous-vehicles cloud
On-site full-time mid 2 months ago

Engineering Manager, Document Platform

Harvey AI · San Francisco, CA · $260k - $330k
distributed-systems agents embeddings search platform
Remote full-time senior 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (Fullstack)

Okta · Bellevue, WA · $147k - $221k
rag embeddings code-generation microservices llm distributed-systems fine-tuning agents
On-site full-time senior 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, AI Reliability

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $325k - $485k
distributed-systems llm mlops alignment infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff Machine Learning Engineer – VLM/LLM Evaluation

Waymo · Mountain View, CA · $238k - $302k
agents pre-training generative-ai pytorch distributed-systems tensorflow deep-learning reinforcement-learning
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Lead AI Architect, Salesforce Service Cloud & AWS

Natera · Austin, TX · $152k - $191k
llm api-design cloud data-pipeline rag embeddings generative-ai fine-tuning
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Safeguards Analyst, Account Abuse

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $230k - $310k
alignment security generative-ai payments rust
Hybrid full-time junior 2 months ago

Engineering Manager II, Machine Learning – User Understanding

Pinterest · San Francisco, CA · $189k - $389k
fine-tuning code-generation llm distributed-systems machine-learning
Remote full-time senior 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Applied AI (Fullstack)

Okta · San Francisco, CA · $147k - $221k
rag distributed-systems embeddings generative-ai agents microservices llm fine-tuning
On-site full-time senior 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, AI & Strategy

Toast · Remote (US) · $151k - $242k
cloud rag fine-tuning payments llm distributed-systems agents data-pipeline
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Glean · San Francisco, CA · $200k - $260k
cloud llm agents security distributed-systems devops
On-site full-time lead 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer II, Core Infrastructure

Moveworks · Mountain View, CA · $140k - $240k
search distributed-systems microservices agents cloud llm embeddings infrastructure
On-site full-time senior 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, BI

Cohere Health · United States · $131k - $150k
cloud payments data-pipeline healthcare api-design
Remote full-time senior 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (2-8 YOE)

Airtable · San Francisco, CA · $187k - $260k
data-pipeline distributed-systems embeddings infrastructure
Hybrid full-time junior 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Infrastructure (8+ YOE)

Airtable · San Francisco, CA · $196k - $339k
embeddings data-pipeline distributed-systems infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Inference

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · $300k - $485k
llm distributed-systems alignment payments inference infrastructure
Hybrid full-time lead 2 months ago

Software Engineer - Middleware

Applied Intuition · Sunnyvale, CA · $140k - $271k
distributed-systems api-design robotics cloud
On-site full-time senior 2 months ago

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Backend & Systems Jobs — FAQ

How many Backend & Systems jobs are available?
There are currently 1277 Backend & Systems jobs on AI Dev Jobs from 198 companies. The average salary is $250k based on 559 listings with published compensation.
What skills are needed for Backend & Systems roles?
Backend & Systems roles commonly require experience with backend, go, python, rust, microservices, api-design, distributed-systems. Browse current listings for specific requirements.
Are there remote Backend & Systems jobs?
Yes, 374 of the 1277 Backend & Systems jobs are remote positions.