Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Lead the Onchain Pod at Coinbase, architecting tools and processes for onchain development, while mentoring team members and collaborating with stakeholders.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll develop AI-driven tools, automate workflows, and enhance developer productivity by collaborating across teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance system reliability and scalability by managing projects, developing service configurations, and ensuring smooth deployments at Coinbase.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance backend developer productivity infrastructure, design scalable solutions, and provide support to internal engineering teams.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement infrastructure components, manage project priorities, mentor team members, and write quality code for data systems.

Develop infrastructure and tools for AI-driven workflows, collaborating with teams to enhance productivity and optimize performance while shipping production-ready code.

Design and implement backend systems and agentic workflows to automate platform-readiness evaluations across GitLab deployment targets. Build schema-driven requirements, integrate with issues/merge requests/CI, partner with platform teams to encode validations, improve assessment accuracy, and mentor engineers while documenting architectural decisions.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and integration surfaces to ensure features ship across GitLab deployment platforms. Contribute to platform requirements knowledge base, collaborate with platform teams, write tests, documentation, and evaluate agentic-workflow behavior.

Design and own the multi-year architecture and roadmap for Coinbase Payments. Build and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems processing high-volume transactions, improve reliability and SLOs, create shared frameworks and APIs, drive incident response and systemic improvements, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to deliver secure, scalable payment infrastructure.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and strategy of Payment Rails infrastructure, designing reliable distributed systems, overseeing technical direction, and collaborating cross-functionally to enhance payment processes at Coinbase.

Build and operate backend Go services and smart contracts for token issuance, wrapping, bridging, and reconciliation across multiple chains. Own end-to-end projects from smart contract deployment to APIs, SLOs, observability, and production rollouts. Improve asset transformation pipelines, lead on-call operations, and mentor junior engineers while partnering with cross-functional teams (Trading, Custody, Compliance).

As a Backend Engineer, you'll enhance Git and Gitaly systems, contribute to upstream Git, and improve repository access and performance through collaboration and coding.

Design, build, and own backend services for prediction markets across market lifecycle: creation, trading, oracle-driven resolution, settlement, and payouts. Engineer low-latency, high-throughput systems, drive reliability (SLOs, observability, incident response), set technical standards, pay down technical debt, and mentor engineers while partnering cross-functionally to deliver product features.

Design, build, and own backend systems for prediction markets including order management, matching, clearing, settlement, and market resolution. Architect low-latency, highly-available distributed systems with strict financial correctness, lead cross-functional initiatives, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive migration to a full Coinbase-operated exchange and clearing platform.

Lead architecture and development of core ledger and transaction-processing backend systems. Drive cross-team technical direction, improve platform scalability and reliability, mentor senior engineers, and embed generative AI to boost engineering and operational efficiency.

As a Backend Software Engineer at Coinbase, you will decompose a monolithic Rails app, maintain and scale backend systems, and collaborate with teams to meet customer needs.

The Software Engineer will design and maintain backend services and infrastructure, mentor team members, and implement cloud provisioning services.

Design and maintain wallet systems, collaborate with teams, conduct code reviews, and troubleshoot problems while ensuring high quality standards.

The Software Engineer will design and maintain wallet systems for the Staking Platform, ensuring integration and high code quality while collaborating with various teams.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and integration surfaces to ensure features ship across GitLab platforms. Evolve platform requirements schema and validation tooling, collaborate with platform teams, write tests and documentation, and evaluate agentic-workflow behavior and observability.

Design and implement backend systems and agentic workflows that evaluate platform readiness across GitLab deployment platforms. Build schema-driven knowledge bases, CI validation tooling, and integrations into issues, merge requests, and pipelines. Partner with platform teams to encode requirements, improve assessment accuracy, and mentor engineers on AI-driven automation and governance.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and integration surfaces to ensure features ship across GitLab platforms. Contribute to the platform requirements knowledge base, evolve schemas and validation tooling, collaborate with platform teams, and write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior.

Join Drivetrain as a Backend Engineer focusing on backend application development, system design, and operational feasibility with a cloud-based tech stack.

As a Backend Engineer, you will improve Git and Gitaly, contribute to upstream Git, enhance repository performance, and align GitLab with community goals.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly systems, contribute to upstream Git, enhance repository performance, and collaborate in the open source community.