Top Backend Engineer Jobs in San Francisco, CA

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).

Senior Backend Engineer for GitLab's Portfolio Experience team: design and implement backend and real-time features in the monolith, improve PostgreSQL performance at scale, build portfolio planning capabilities, create proofs of concept, maintain automated test coverage, support safe rollouts, mentor engineers and contributors, participate in on-call rotations, and shape product decisions with users and product managers.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning. Improve PostgreSQL performance at scale, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and status rollup features, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor engineers and contributors, and participate in on-call rotations and production troubleshooting.

Designs and ships complex backend features, improves reliability and performance, defines backend standards, mentors engineers, participates in incident response, and integrates AI into production engineering workflows.

Design and ship complex backend features, improve system reliability, performance, and security, mentor engineers, participate in incident response, and integrate agentic AI into production workflows while collaborating with product and design 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 Staff Software Engineer, you'll design and develop backend systems, collaborate with Data Scientists, mentor engineers, and ensure technical excellence in delivering scalable solutions.

As a Software Engineer II, you'll design and launch backend systems, collaborate with product teams, support operations, and engage in team growth. You'll take ownership of your work and contribute to the team's community.

As a Software Engineer II, you will design, develop, and launch backend systems while collaborating with product management and supporting operational efforts. The role emphasizes code quality and community engagement through mentorship and feedback.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead technical strategy and manage backend systems, collaborating across teams, ensuring quality, and fostering talent development.

As a Senior Software Engineer for the Capital Risk team, you will lead the development of scalable backend systems, collaborate on product development, ensure system reliability, and foster a culture of quality within the team.

Responsible for setting the technical strategy and supporting operations for backend systems, collaborating across teams, and advocating for technical solutions. Lead talent development and promote a culture of quality through code review and collaboration.

You will lead backend system development, optimize processes, ensure product quality, and support team growth while delivering on project goals.