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Backend jobs in San Francisco, CA
The newest live backend openings in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area, from employer career sites and job boards. Each employer's name shows once you sign in.
- Live openings
- More than 1,000
- Matching this page's search
- Median advertised pay
- $214,000
- From 4,747 postings with pay
Figures as of .
More than 1,000 live openings match. The 10 newest are listed below with employer names hidden.
Postings that list pay advertise a median of $214,000 a year, from 4,747 postings with pay as of November 5, 2026.
Newest openings
Live openings from employer career sites and job boards, as of November 5, 2026. Pay is yearly, or as the posting words it when we could not read its figures.
| Job | Location | Pay | Posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| HPE Labs - Principal Research Engineer - HPE Quantum | Milpitas, California | $158,500 to $321,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| P4 Sr Software Development Engineer | CA, Pleasanton | $176,000 to $264,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Senior Software Development Engineer | CA, Pleasanton | $190,100 to $285,100 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Principal Engineer, Quantum Software Development | San Jose, California | $250,600 to $362,600 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Cloud Engineer II (Full Time) - United States | Milpitas, California | $125,700 to $176,600 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Software Engineer, Cloud Services | San Francisco, California | $107,400 to $155,700 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Real-time Data Platform Software Engineer- Senior/Lead | California - San Francisco | $172,500 to $260,100 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Engineer I - Software | CA - San Jose - 3850 N. First St | $70,304 to $143,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
| Java Developer | San Francisco, California | Not listed | November 5, 2026 |
| Backend Software Engineer (Infra Engineer) | Palo Alto, CA | $160,000 to $180,000 a year | November 5, 2026 |
More backend jobs
Other backend pages, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Where | Postings |
|---|---|
| Across the US | 36,837 |
| Remote | 6,601 |
| New York, NY | 3,570 |
| Washington, DC | 2,478 |
| Seattle, WA | 2,365 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 1,251 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,165 |
| Boston, MA | 1,008 |
| Austin, TX | 897 |
| Baltimore, MD | 866 |
| Chicago, IL | 832 |
Other jobs in San Francisco, CA
Other role families with a page here, with the live postings each counted as of November 5, 2026.
| Role family | Postings |
|---|---|
| Engineering | 10,950 |
| Healthcare | 9,298 |
| Sales | 6,514 |
| Operations | 5,746 |
| Education | 4,188 |
| Finance | 3,983 |
| Product and design | 3,478 |
| Machine learning | 2,917 |
| Marketing | 2,901 |
| HR and recruiting | 2,110 |
| Full stack | 1,793 |
| Customer support | 1,744 |
| Data | 1,711 |
| Administrative | 1,681 |
| Facilities and maintenance | 1,489 |
| Project management | 1,440 |
| Manufacturing and production | 1,349 |
| Legal | 1,266 |
| Transportation and driving | 1,125 |
| IT support | 1,110 |
| Security | 1,004 |
| DevOps | 985 |
| QA | 505 |
| Frontend | 471 |
| Mobile | 404 |