Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco

Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco hiring now at vetted startups and product companies on Alion, updated daily. Average salary around $283,127/year. Compare remote, hybrid and on-site positions with relocation and visa sponsorship. Browse and apply today.

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NCR Voyix

ncr.com
NCR Voyix is a global technology company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with roots dating back to its founding in 1884 as the National Cash Register Company. The organization specializes in digital commerce solutions, providing point-of-sale software, hardware, and cloud-based platforms for the retail, restaurant, and banking sectors. Following its strategic separation from its ATM business in 2023, the company operates as an independent publicly traded entity serving a diverse international client base.
ncr.com • HQ: Atlanta, United States • Hardware • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Software • FinTech • Financial Services • Retail & Shop Systems • Commerce • POS Systems • 5000+ employees
HQ: Atlanta, United States • Hardware • Business Process Automation (BPA) • Software • FinTech • Financial Services • Retail & Shop Systems • Commerce • POS Systems • 5000+ employees
Top 25% pay 29 days ago

Software Engineer

$129k – $175k per year • Junior • 2+ years expAtlanta • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Bachelor's Degree • Senior
CI/CD
Git
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Basetwo

basetwo.com
Basetwo is a frontier Web3 advisory and investment firm, empowering early-stage projects with funding, expertise, and strategic support from experienced founders.
basetwo.com • Toronto • Vancouver • Calgary • Boston • Venture Capital • Blockchain & Crypto • Web3 & dApps
Toronto • Vancouver • Calgary • Boston • Venture Capital • Blockchain & Crypto • Web3 & dApps
$100k – $195k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Senior • 5+ years expToronto • Remote (Canada, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Senior
JavaScript
Python
SQL
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
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ScaleOps

scaleops.com
ScaleOps is a cloud infrastructure automation company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and founded in 2022. The company provides an autonomous platform for Kubernetes resource management that continuously optimizes CPU, memory, and GPU allocations for containerized workloads in real-time. It serves global enterprises and AI-driven organizations by reducing cloud expenditures and improving application performance through automated pod rightsizing and node consolidation.
scaleops.com • HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Cloud Management • Software • DevOps • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel • Artificial Intelligence • AI Infrastructure • Hardware • Cloud Management • Software • DevOps • Information Technology • Cloud Computing • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2022
29 days ago

Software Engineer

$108k – $196k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 4+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
Helm
Istio
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Cybersecurity
Wiz
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DataCom Group

datacomgroup.com
The DataCom Group is a technology infrastructure firm that specializes in the design, installation, and servicing of structured communications cabling systems. Serving commercial, educational, and government facilities, the company delivers integrated low-voltage solutions, including IP paging, intercom, and emergency notification systems. Additionally, it provides advanced physical security technology - such as access control, CCTV surveillance, and intrusion detection - to help organizations maintain safe and connected facilities.
datacomgroup.com • HQ: Auckland, New Zealand • IT Consulting • Cloud Computing • Information Technology • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993
HQ: Auckland, New Zealand • IT Consulting • Cloud Computing • Information Technology • 5000+ employees • Est. 1993
$102k – $229k per year (Estimated) • Lead • Remote (Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Master's Degree • Staff
C#
Java
PowerShell
Python
C#
.NET
DevOps
Azure
Bicep
Terraform
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Base Layer

base-layer.ai
Research and infrastructure for representational accuracy in human-AI systems. The Behavioral Specification is the interpretive layer above retrieval that supplies the framework facts are read through. Empirical foundation: the Beyond Recall preprint (Gulaya 2026). Open source under Apache 2.0.
base-layer.ai • New York • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
New York • San Francisco • Artificial Intelligence • AI Agents
$156k – $281k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Senior
Python
SQL
Python
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Embeddings
DevOps
GCP
Google Cloud Run
Vector
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$159k – $286k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
SQLAlchemy
SQLModel
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
DevOps
Cloudflare
Fastly
Google Cloud Run
GCP
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$163k – $293k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Senior
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
LLM
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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RWX

rwx.com
RWX is the CI/CD platform for the agentic dev cycle. Validate changes without a commit. Give your agents sandboxes that share your build config and cache.
rwx.com • Cloud Computing • Information Technology • DevOps
Cloud Computing • Information Technology • DevOps
$215k – $250k per year • Staff+ • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
AI Agents
DevOps
CI/CD
eBPF
Platform Engineering
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Nuvei

nuvei.com
Unify pay-ins, payouts, and data on one intelligent platform. Accept every payment method, optimize performance locally, and scale globally with Nuvei.
nuvei.com • HQ: Montreal, Canada • FinTech • Financial Services • Payments • Est. 2003
HQ: Montreal, Canada • FinTech • Financial Services • Payments • Est. 2003
Verified live · 1 day ago 30 days ago

Enterprise Architect - Chief Architect for Agentic Delivery

$119k – $252k per year (Estimated) • Executive • Atlanta • Remote (United States) • Architect
AI Agents
Claude
Claude Code
Copilot
Hallucination
Model Context Protocol
Anthropic
Function Calling
Human-in-the-Loop
OpenAI
OpenAI Codex
RAG
DevOps
CI/CD
Platform Engineering
GitHub
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Tenchi Security

tenchisecurity.com
Tenchi launched an initial product called Zanshin that gives enterprise companies visibility into the security risks present in their critical third parties. Third parties play an instrumental role in today's business environment, and sensitive da...
tenchisecurity.com • São Paulo • Cloud Computing • Information Security • Cybersecurity
São Paulo • Cloud Computing • Information Security • Cybersecurity
30 days ago

Backend Engineer

$25k – $87k per year (Estimated) • Junior • Remote (United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain)
Python
SQL
Python
pySpark
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Pandas
Spark
DevOps
AWS
CI/CD
CloudFormation
Docker
AWS Step Functions
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Ethena Labs

discord.gg
Ethena Labs is building the first crypto-based reward-accruing synthetic dollar protocol. Arthur Hayes is a founding advisor and the team has deep experience across traditional finance and crypto engineering from firms such as Cerberus, Wintermute, Flow Traders, Deribit, Paradigm, GMX, Zircuit, Chainlink and Kaiko. We are backed by every major exchange and trading entities in the space.
discord.gg • Anchorage • Blockchain & Crypto • Stablecoins • DeFi
Anchorage • Blockchain & Crypto • Stablecoins • DeFi
$174k – $289k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Go
Java
Kotlin
Rust
TypeScript
Java
Testcontainers
Databases
Apache Kafka
NATS
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Claude
Claude Code
AI Agents
Model Context Protocol
DevOps
gRPC
Web3
Ethena
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Zendesk

zendesk.com
Zendesk is redefining customer and employee experience. Our AI-powered solutions help over 100,000 companies build better relationships and grow. We push boundaries of what's possible and create tech that brings people closer.
zendesk.com • Mexico City • Pune • Melbourne • San Francisco • London • Artificial Intelligence • Software • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • 1001-5000 employees
Mexico City • Pune • Melbourne • San Francisco • London • Artificial Intelligence • Software • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • 1001-5000 employees
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 30 days ago

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Solve Voice

$145k – $217k per year • Senior • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Austin, San Francisco, Madison, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Speech Recognition
Text-to-Speech
DevOps
WebRTC
WebSockets
Marketing
Zendesk
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Open 99 daysTop 25% pay 4 months ago

Senior Fullstack Engineer, Solve

$145k – $217k per year • Senior • 3+ years expRemote/Hybrid (Austin, Madison, San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
FastAPI
AI/ML
Embeddings
LLM
RAG
Google GenAI SDK
Prompt Engineering
OpenAI
Frontend
React.js
Marketing
Zendesk
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Shepherd

shepherdinsurance.com
Shepherd is an insurance technology company focused on commercial insurance, with a particular emphasis on the construction and contracting space. Its core aim is to make it easier for businesses to understand, buy, and manage the cover they need, while reducing the back and forth that often comes with traditional insurance processes. From a job seeker’s perspective, the problem Shepherd is tackling is practical and high impact, helping companies stay compliant, protect projects, and keep work moving without insurance becoming a constant operational bottleneck.
shepherdinsurance.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • FinTech • Financial Services • Insurance
HQ: San Francisco, United States • FinTech • Financial Services • Insurance
Verified live · 2 hours ago 30 days ago

Staff Software Engineer (SF)

$225k – $255k per year • Staff+ • 8+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Robotics
Apollo
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Open 189 daysTop 25% pay 7 months ago

Software Engineer, Applied AI

$170k – $225k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
Node JS
TypeScript
Go
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Embeddings
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
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Open 372 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Software Engineer, AI Product + Agents

$170k – $225k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
JavaScript
TypeScript
Go
Node JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
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Gusto

gusto.com
Gusto is a SaaS company that builds software to help businesses run core people operations, particularly payroll, benefits, and HR administration. Its products are designed to reduce the time and risk involved in paying employees, managing tax filings and compliance tasks, and handling the ongoing paperwork that comes with hiring and supporting a team. For job seekers, the focus is on practical, high‑stakes workflows where accuracy, security, and reliability matter, because customers depend on the platform to pay people correctly and on time.
gusto.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Financial Services • Payments • Professional Services • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Financial Services • Payments • Professional Services • Human Resources • 51-200 employees
Verified live · 7 min ago 30 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Time and Scheduling

$163k – $204k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 8+ years expNew York • Remote (United States) • Internship • Staff
JavaScript
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Platform Engineering
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Verified live · 7 min ago 2 months ago

Staff Software Engineer, Tax Accounts

$163k – $204k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 8+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Staff
Ruby
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
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Top 25% payVerified live · 7 min ago 2 months ago

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Growth Onboarding

$223k – $278k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 12+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Internship • Staff
ChatGPT
Claude
LLM
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Firecrawl

firecrawl.dev
Firecrawl is a developer tools company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2022. The company provides an API that crawls websites and converts pages into clean, structured markdown or JSON for use as context in large language model applications. It is used by AI teams building retrieval augmented generation systems and agents, and maintains its crawler as an open source project alongside the hosted service.
firecrawl.dev • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Web Development • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Information Technology • Web Development • Data Collection • LLM & Generative AI • Software • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence • 51-200 employees • Est. 2022
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 30 days ago

Forward Deployed Engineer - Revenue

$180k – $240k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Visa sponsorship • Full-Time • Middle
AI Agents
Firecrawl
LLM
DevOps
GitHub
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KKR

kkr.com
kkr.com • Hartford • Boston • San Francisco • Des Moines • New York
Hartford • Boston • San Francisco • Des Moines • New York
$14k – $170k per year • Senior • 5+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Python
SQL
Python
pySpark
Databases
Amazon Aurora
MS SQL
Redis
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
Kubernetes
Amazon EC2
Amazon EKS
Argo Workflows
AWS
Analytics
ETL/ELT
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Twilio

twilio.com
Twilio is a leading cloud communications platform that enables software developers to programmatically build, scale, and integrate real-time communication capabilities into applications via application programming interfaces (APIs). Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides infrastructure for automated SMS messaging, voice calls, WhatsApp integration, video, and two-factor authentication without requiring traditional telecom hardware.
twilio.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Telecommunications • Software • Online Communication • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2008
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Telecommunications • Software • Online Communication • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2008
Verified live · 1 hour ago 30 days ago

Software Engineer (L4)

$171k – $193k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
C++
JavaScript
Kotlin
AI/ML
Claude
Copilot
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Android SDK
React Native
Twilio
DevOps
ArgoCD
Buildkite
CI/CD
CircleCI
Git
GitHub Actions
WebRTC
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 30 days ago

Software Engineer (L4)

$171k – $193k per year • Equity • Staff+ • 10+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Staff
C++
JavaScript
Kotlin
AI/ML
Claude
Copilot
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Android SDK
React Native
Twilio
DevOps
ArgoCD
Buildkite
CI/CD
CircleCI
Git
GitHub Actions
WebRTC
Kubernetes
GitHub
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 hour ago 2 months ago

Software Engineer (L2)

$139k – $173k per year • Equity • Middle • 3+ years exp • Remote (United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
C#
C++
Go
Java
Rust
Databases
Amazon Aurora
Apache Kafka
MySQL
Mobile
Twilio
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
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New Relic

newrelic.com
New Relic is an all-in-one web tracking and observability platform that helps software engineers and DevOps teams monitor, analyze, and optimize their entire technology stack. Its cloud platform ingests telemetry data - such as metrics, events, logs, and traces - to deliver real-time insights into application performance and cloud infrastructure health.
newrelic.com • San Francisco • Portland • Barcelona • Bengaluru • Atlanta • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Data Observability
San Francisco • Portland • Barcelona • Bengaluru • Atlanta • Information Technology • Data & Analytics • Data Observability
Verified live · 1 hour ago 30 days ago

Lead Enterprise Systems Engineer

$135k – $270k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years expSan Francisco • Remote (United States) • Visa sponsorship • Staff
Apex
Apex
Lightning Web Components
DevOps
CI/CD
New Relic
GitHub
GitLab
Management
Jira
Marketing
Salesforce
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The Stellar Development Foundation is a non-profit based in San Francisco that was created in 2014 to support the Stellar payment network. Stellar is designed for low-cost cross-border transfers and asset issuance, and is widely used for stablecoin settlement and remittance corridors. The foundation funds protocol development, runs an enterprise fund for ecosystem companies, and works with regulators and financial institutions on compliant on-ramps.
stellar.org • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Asset Tokenization • Natural Language Processing • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2014
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Asset Tokenization • Natural Language Processing • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2014
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 30 days ago

Full-Stack Engineer, Wallets

$140k – $190k per year • Junior • 2+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Junior
Go
Java
Python
TypeScript
Web3
Stellar
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Open 125 daysTop 25% pay 5 months ago

Backend Engineer, Integrations & APIs

$140k – $210k per year • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time
C++
Rust
Databases
ClickHouse
Google BigQuery
DevOps
Prometheus
Web3
Stellar
QA
Sentry
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Open 446 daysTop 25% pay 1 year ago

Senior Software Engineer, C++

$180k – $280k per year • Senior • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Rust
Web3
Stellar
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Lightfield

lightfield.com
lightfield.com • Boston • San Francisco • Cambridge
Boston • San Francisco • Cambridge
Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 30 days ago

Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (Staff)

$180k – $300k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, Cambridge, United States) • Full-Time • Staff
Node JS
JavaScript
Node JS
BullMQ
Databases
Apache Kafka
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
Redis
Typesense
AI/ML
AI Agents
Flink
Llama
LLM Evaluation
Marketing
Salesforce
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 month ago

Software Engineer, Full Stack (Staff)

$220k – $300k per year • Staff+ • 7+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Staff
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Llama
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Marketing
Salesforce
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Top 25% payVerified live · 2 hours ago 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Applied AI (Early Career)

$160k – $180k per year • Junior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Llama
Frontend
GraphQL
Next.js
React.js
Marketing
Salesforce
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Aptos Labs

aptoslabs.com
Aptos Labs is a blockchain company founded in 2021 by former engineers of the Diem project and headquartered in Palo Alto. It develops the Aptos network, a proof-of-stake chain built around the Move programming language and parallel transaction execution. The company focuses on high-throughput consumer and payments use cases and maintains core infrastructure, wallets and developer tooling for the ecosystem.
aptoslabs.com • HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2021
HQ: Palo Alto, United States • Blockchain & Crypto • Est. 2021
Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 30 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Trading Infrastructure

$150k – $250k per year • Senior • 5+ years expPalo Alto • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • Senior
C++
Go
Java
Python
Rust
Web3
Aptos
DeFi
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Top 25% payVerified live · 1 day ago 30 days ago

Software Engineer, Trading Product

$150k – $250k per year • Middle • 3+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Middle
TypeScript
Web3
Aptos
DeFi
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Decagon

decagon.ai
Decagon is a San Francisco company founded in 2023 that builds artificial intelligence support agents for consumer and business brands. Its agents resolve conversations end to end across chat, email and voice by taking actions in company systems, and admins configure behaviour through natural language operating procedures. It has grown quickly with customers in fintech, e-commerce and software.
decagon.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2023
HQ: San Francisco, United States • AI Agents • Conversational AI • Artificial Intelligence • Est. 2023
$200k – $400k per year • Senior • 4+ years expIn office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
AI/ML
AI Agents
Prompt Engineering
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$200k – $400k per year • Senior • In office (San Francisco, United States) • Full-Time • Senior
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
Datadog
GCP
Grafana
IAM
Incident Management
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Prometheus
Terraform
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
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Backend Developer Salary in San Francisco
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What salary do Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco pay?
The average salary is around $283,127 per year based on the current listings.
Are remote options available for Backend Developer jobs in San Francisco?
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