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Principal Backend Jobs
1035 listings currently hiring across distributed teams. 48 were added in the last 7 days; AWS is the most common detected skill.
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1035 remote Principal Backend jobs currently hiring. 48 appeared during the last 7 days. Median disclosed salary: $216,000.
Most common detected skills: AWS (24), Go (19), Python (19), Stakeholder Management (15), Kubernetes (12).
Most common eligibility: United States (21), Canada (4), United States and Canada (3), São Paulo, Brazil (2).
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Staff Software Engineer - Query Planner & Reflections
Set technical direction for software that plans and optimizes SQL queries and matches queries to precomputed results. The role spans complex engineering work across product compon…
Staff Software Engineer, Job Seeker Apps
Lead engineering across the systems that help people express what they want from their next job and navigate a personalized job search. The work spans user-facing experiences, bac…
Staff Software Engineer, Application Infrastructure
Lead the design and delivery of shared cloud services that support a high-volume platform used by many services and devices. The work combines architecture, performance and reliab…
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
Help establish a new forward deployed engineering function as one of its first engineers. You will partner directly with major customers and channel partners, taking technical own…
Senior Software Developer - Canada
Build and improve full-stack software that supports primary care teams and helps them manage patient care. You’ll work with clinicians, operations staff, and product partners to u…
Principal Database Engineer
Set technical direction for a large, established production database environment and work hands-on with engineers to improve its reliability, performance, scale, cost, and operati…
Principal Revenue Applications Developer
Set technical direction for the systems that support a global revenue organization. As a senior individual contributor, you will shape the Salesforce environment and its connected…
Senior Staff Platform Engineer
Set technical direction for cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise SaaS products, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure. This senior, hands-on platform role covers architectu…
Director of Engineering, Eligibility & Revenue Systems
Lead multiple engineering teams and managers responsible for enterprise systems that support customer eligibility, partner file ingestion, billing, claims and invoicing, and incen…
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Build developer tools and agent workflows that help engineers make safe, large-scale changes across complex codebases. The work spans tools used to guide and monitor autonomous ag…
Staff Software Engineer – Remote First
Own major initiatives across payment infrastructure, from clarifying an ambiguous problem to designing, shipping, and operating the solution in production. The role spans Brazilia…
Legal Engineer (Immigration)
Apply removal-defense legal expertise to the design and rollout of technology for immigration practices. You’ll work with product and engineering teams to shape case workflows and…
Staff Software Engineer – Web
Provide hands-on technical leadership for a high-traffic public web platform, guiding its architecture and the engineers who build and operate it. The role combines front-end rend…
Staff Platform Product Manager, Platform & Cloud Security
Set product direction for security across cloud products and platform capabilities, translating enterprise customer needs and security risks into a coordinated roadmap. This techn…
Staff Solutions Architect
Own the technical success of enterprise integrations with hotel booking APIs, from early discovery through launch and ongoing operation. You’ll advise partners on the right integr…
Senior/Staff Platform Engineer - Rust (d/f/m)
Join a platform team responsible for improving engineering productivity and the reliability of shared infrastructure. You’ll maintain development and deployment systems, build too…
Staff Reltio Data Engineer
Lead the design and delivery of master data management solutions on the Reltio Connected Data Platform. You’ll shape how business data is modeled, connected, governed, and maintai…
Technical Account Manager
Provide dedicated technical support and proactive guidance to strategic customers using cloud communications products. You will investigate complex issues with customer and partne…
Member of Technical Staff - Training Platform
Build a hosted platform that lets developers launch LoRA and full fine-tuning jobs on managed GPU clusters through an API or web interface. The work spans Kubernetes-based trainin…
Staff Developer, Authentication Enablement
Set technical direction for services that handle sign-in and secure access across a suite of applications. The team is moving authentication capabilities out of a monolith into an…
Staff Software Engineer, AI Applications
Set the technical direction for application engineering across backend, mobile, and desktop products, while helping a small team deliver reliable AI-powered features. The work inc…
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Own the cloud infrastructure platform behind a durable execution service spanning hosted, self-managed, and customer-cloud deployments. This senior-to-staff-level role combines cl…
Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Engineering - Flow
Lead software engineering work on an AI-native engineering team focused on Flow. The role is part of a broader engineering organization and is listed as a regular position with a…
Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Engineering - Flow
Lead software engineering work on AI-native capabilities for a flow engineering team. The role is focused on building and advancing engineering systems, with a flexible or remote…
Staff Software Engineer, Browser (New Products)
Explore new uses for browser technology through hands-on investigation and implementation within browser engine internals. This individual contributor role focuses on building exp…
Staff Software Engineer, Fraud & Payment Risk Platform
This staff-level backend engineering role leads the design and implementation of a platform for fraud prevention and payment risk decisions. The platform brings together live and…
Principal Threat Analyst | Remote, USA
Conduct advanced security monitoring, incident response, and proactive threat hunting across client environments in a managed security operations setting. The principal analyst in…
Staff Platform Engineer - Infra + DevOps
Build and operate the cloud platform and shared engineering foundations that help product teams deliver services reliably. This is a hands-on role spanning distributed systems, in…
Staff AI Engineer
Provide hands-on technical leadership for production AI systems, from architecture and prototyping through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement. The role also shapes ho…
Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - Resilient Edge & Tactical Networking
Design and build resilient software for edge, mobile, and cloud systems that must keep working when networks are unreliable or unavailable. The role focuses on practical synchroni…
Staff Software Engineer (Remote)
Lead full-stack engineering for a patient portal that supports key parts of the care journey, including scheduling, billing, care-team communication, and treatment-plan tracking.…
Staff Data Engineer
Set technical direction for enterprise data platforms and lead their design and delivery across lakes, warehouses, and pipelines. The role combines hands-on engineering with archi…
Staff Software Engineer
Build the technical foundation for new digital experiences supporting members and care teams in cardiometabolic care and physical activity. This is a high-ownership staff engineer…
Staff Software Engineer, Ads Data Platform
Lead engineering work on a data platform that supports advertising and other data-intensive functions. The role combines hands-on architecture and delivery with cross-team coordin…
Principal Engineer, Cloud Software
Set technical direction and contribute hands-on engineering for connected products and cloud platforms. This individual contributor role spans device and firmware integrations, co…
Principal Database Engineer
Set technical direction for a large production database estate and work hands-on with engineers to improve its reliability, performance, cost, and operational simplicity. This is…
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Android & IoT
Lead the technical direction of a suite of tools used by field and client operations to manage and diagnose a large Android device fleet. This is a hands-on senior individual cont…
Staff Software Engineer (L4)
Own and improve the reliability of production services as a hands-on staff-level engineer focused on platform operations. The work spans system design, production code, incident l…
Principal Technical Sound Designer
Architect and build the technical audio systems that support multiple game projects, from core runtime architecture to editor tools and production workflows. This senior individua…
Principal Cloud Software Architect
Lead architecture and delivery for large, complex software engagements, turning enterprise goals and ambiguous requirements into production-ready applications, including AI-enable…
Staff Backend Engineer - Prompt Security (Node.js / TypeScript)
Build backend services for an AI security product that monitors AI assets, assesses risks, and provides actionable insights. This staff-level engineering role covers the design an…
Member of Technical Staff (Storage)
Shape and build the storage systems underlying a distributed database, with responsibility for durable, efficient data persistence and retrieval. You’ll lead substantial engineeri…
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Kalepa for Underwriting
Set the technical direction for systems that turn large volumes of unstructured insurance documents and data into structured, explainable information. You will lead applied AI arc…
Staff Backend Software Engineer - Agent Platform (Go/Python)
Develop and operate core services in an endpoint security agent platform that supports tens of millions of devices across Windows, Linux, and macOS and processes very large volume…
Solutions Architect
Turn business goals into secure, maintainable technical architecture for hosted cloud products and customer-installed software. The architect owns target-state direction and guide…
Member of Technical Staff | Product Platform
Build the product interfaces through which enterprise customers and internal operators use and manage a prediction platform. The role covers APIs, a customer dashboard, batch work…
Member of Technical Staff | Deployment Platform
Own the deployment systems and infrastructure that let services run reliably in customer-managed Kubernetes environments. The work spans the delivery channel, cloud foundations, a…
Technical Lead
Drive technical execution across backend, frontend, mobile, AI, and data work for a consumer product. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: translate broad product goals i…