Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Provides technical leadership for cross-team backend initiatives, modernizes monolithic and legacy systems, establishes architecture and engineering standards, and guides Go, Kubernetes, Rust, reliability, security, observability, and AI-assisted development practices. The role includes architectural decision-making, incident response, mentoring, technical debt reduction, and partnership with Product and Engineering leadership in a fully remote environment.

Build backend platforms and reusable tooling that enable engineering teams to independently perform performance testing, analysis, benchmarking, and optimization. Develop self-service workflows, documentation, templates, diagnostics, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities. Partner with development teams to integrate performance testing into development and release processes, generalize solutions for broad adoption, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning at GitLab scale. Develop PostgreSQL-as-a-service capabilities across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes or comparable automation platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve database performance, reliability, and scalability; operate production services; review code; document practices; and provide technical leadership, mentorship, and cross-team influence.

Build backend platforms and reusable tooling that enable engineering teams to conduct performance testing, analysis, benchmarking, and optimization through self-service workflows. Develop AI-assisted engineering capabilities, improve performance reporting and trend visibility, create documentation and templates, and influence teams to integrate performance testing into development and release processes. Partner broadly with development teams while providing expertise on complex performance challenges and scalable platform capabilities.

Provides technical leadership for cross-team backend initiatives, modernizes monolithic and legacy systems, establishes architecture and engineering standards, and guides Go, Kubernetes, and Rust adoption. Leads platform roadmap trade-offs, incident response, technical documentation, mentoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows while improving reliability, security, performance, operability, and maintainability.

Leads cross-team backend architecture and delivery for GitLab’s Core DevOps platform. Responsibilities include modernizing monolithic systems, defining API and service standards, establishing Go and Kubernetes practices, guiding Rust adoption, improving reliability and observability, participating in incident response, influencing platform roadmaps, mentoring engineers, reducing technical debt, and promoting secure AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Build backend platforms and reusable tooling for performance testing, analysis, reporting, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Enable development teams to independently integrate performance testing into development and continuous integration processes through self-service capabilities, documentation, templates, diagnostics, and guidance. Partner with engineering teams, generalize solutions from hands-on engagements, improve performance visibility, and provide expertise on complex performance challenges.

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.

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.

Design and build backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve GraphQL/REST APIs, improve large test suites, use feature flags and observability for safe rollouts, mentor engineers and contributors, participate in on-call rotations, and create proofs of concept for complex work.

Designs and ships complex backend features, improves reliability, performance, and security, and helps define backend standards. Partners across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security teams, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and integrates agentic AI into production engineering workflows.

Build and operate Go-based automation for GitLab’s PostgreSQL lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning. Develop PostgreSQL-as-a-service capabilities, Kubernetes or comparable database operators, cloud and infrastructure-as-code integrations, and production-scale reliability improvements. Lead technical direction, review designs and code, collaborate across engineering teams, document operational practices, mentor engineers, and operate services end to end.

Build and operate Go-based automation for PostgreSQL provisioning, configuration, upgrades, failover, scaling, and decommissioning. Develop a PostgreSQL-as-a-service platform across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes or comparable automation systems, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve database performance, scalability, reliability, and operational safety at internet scale. Lead technical direction, review designs and code, collaborate across engineering teams, mentor engineers, document practices, and operate production systems.

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

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.

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.

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.