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Remote Backend Development Jobs in United States 2026

199 remote jobs open to candidates in United States in Backend Development. Updated daily.

Chainguard
Backend Engineer Full-time
Automation AI Canva +12 Snowflake Apache Spark Economics Fintech Infrastructure Engineering Leadership Planning Go Command Line Collaboration Architecture
  • United States
  • $205,000 – $231,000/yr
  • Sep 12, 2026

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk.

Deepgram
Backend Engineer Full-time
AI Automation APIs +12 TTS Cloudflare Accuracy Organization Operations HRIS Engineering Communication Make Onboarding Slack Recruiting
  • United States
  • Sep 11, 2026

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale.

ClickHouse
Backend Engineer Full-time
TypeScript AI Machine Learning +12 Architecture APIs Make Monitoring Observability Engineering JavaScript React Databases AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform
  • United States
  • $147,000 – $238,000/yr
  • Sep 10, 2026

NOTE: This role is not office-based, and the final candidate can be in any EMEA country ClickHouse hires in (such as The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, or Portugal).

College Board
Backend Engineer Full-time
Cybersecurity Infrastructure Shell Scripting +12 Microsoft Teams Organization Architecture Collaboration Engineering Strategic Thinking Cross-Functional Collaboration React Alignment Planning Contracts Consistency
  • United States
  • $168,000 – $183,000/yr
  • Sep 10, 2026

College Board — Technology, InfoSec & Infrastructure Location: This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).

GitLab
Backend Engineer Full-time ↘ +2 regions
Automation Go GitLab +12 DevSecOps Compliance AI Culture Trademark PostgreSQL Infrastructure Operations Databases Microsoft Teams SQL Management
  • Canada, United States
  • $153k – $259k/yr
  • Sep 9, 2026

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

NVIDIA
Backend Engineer Full-time
Verification Research Architecture +12 AI Algorithms Engineering LLMs Verilog SVA C++ Automation Interpretation C++17 Optimization LangChain
  • United States (US: CA)
  • From $232,000/yr
  • Sep 9, 2026

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced Principal EDA R&D Engineer to pioneer the next generation of Hardware Formal Verification tools! In this position, you will lead research, architecture, and development of core formal verification engines improved by Agentic AI frameworks.

Fetch
Backend Engineer Full-time
Engineering Adaptability Decision Making +12 Cross-Functional Collaboration Culture Collaboration APIs Make Microsoft Teams Modeling Semantics Indexing Metadata Contracts Observability
  • United States
  • $190,409 – $224,011/yr
  • Sep 8, 2026

At Fetch, engineering is driven by curiosity, ownership, and a bias toward action. We operate in complex problem spaces where the right answer is not always clear, and success depends on adaptability, critical thinking, and informed decision-making.

Cadence
Backend Engineer Full-time
Engineering Cadence AI +12 Monitoring Prototyping Healthcare Microsoft Teams Troubleshooting Problem Solving Cross-Functional Collaboration Messaging Software Engineering Healthcare Data Distributed Systems Software Development
  • United States
  • $55/hr
  • Sep 8, 2026

Cadence is the clinical AI company automating the treatment of chronic disease. Its Clinical Intelligence takes on the routine, high-volume work of chronic care – monitoring patients, surfacing risks, and coordinating action – so clinicians can focus on the decisions that…

Reddit
Backend Engineer Full-time
Creativity Make Microsoft Teams +12 Infrastructure Engineering Empathy Go TypeScript GraphQL React Redis NoSQL Databases AI Mentoring
  • United States
  • $217,000 – $303,900/yr
  • Sep 4, 2026

Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.

Hospitable
PHP / Laravel Developer Full-time ↘ +4 regions
Laravel Culture Messaging +12 Operations Engineering Sales Infrastructure as Code Observability Make Angular PHP MySQL AI Cursor Testing
  • United States, Germany, Netherlands +1United Kingdom (US: OR)
  • $124k – $167k/yr
  • Sep 4, 2026

tldr; We build software for Airbnbs to rent themselves, with a state-of-the-art product and user experience. We have crafted an Applicant Handbook, which we highly recommend you check out, where you can find out more about the company, culture, how we recruit, what we do, and…

Elastic
Backend Engineer Full-time
Elasticsearch AI Precision +12 Observability Analytics Engineering GitHub Zoom Slack Research Algorithms Microsoft Teams APIs Java Concurrency
  • United States
  • $133,100 – $210,600/yr
  • Sep 2, 2026

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

Close
Backend Engineer Full-time
CRM AI Sales +12 Python Flask MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Redis Infrastructure AWS Amazon EC2 Docker Kubernetes JavaScript
  • United States
  • Sep 1, 2026

Since 2013, we’ve been building a CRM that gets out of your way and helps your team sell more, faster. Now we’re building AI into every part of it, so Close does the busywork and your team does the selling. No manual data entry, no 10-click workflows.

Close
Backend Engineer Full-time
CRM AI Sales +12 Python Flask MongoDB PostgreSQL Elasticsearch Redis Infrastructure AWS Amazon EC2 Docker Kubernetes JavaScript
  • United States
  • Sep 1, 2026

Since 2013, we’ve been building a CRM that gets out of your way and helps your team sell more, faster. Now we’re building AI into every part of it, so Close does the busywork and your team does the selling. No manual data entry, no 10-click workflows.

Elastic
Backend Engineer Full-time
Elasticsearch AI Precision +12 Observability Analytics Engineering Syntax Infrastructure GitHub Zoom Slack Research Algorithms Microsoft Teams APIs
  • United States
  • $159,800 – $252,800/yr
  • Sep 1, 2026

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

GitLab
Ruby / Rails Developer Full-time ↘ +2 regions
Ruby Vue.js Monetization +12 Engineering GitLab DevSecOps Compliance AI Culture Trademark Management CRM Leadership Accessibility Accuracy
  • Canada, United States
  • $153k – $259k/yr
  • Sep 1, 2026

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation.

NVIDIA
Backend Engineer Full-time ↻ Reposted
Engineering Gaming AI +12 Make Open Source Infrastructure Analysis Documentation Research Microsoft Teams Optimization Software Engineering Architecture Leadership Python
  • United States (US: CA, CO, DC +2)
  • From $184,000/yr
  • Sep 1, 2026

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people.

Peraton
Backend Engineer Full-time
COBOL CICS JCL +12 Payroll Cross-Functional Collaboration Organization Communication Management Strategic Thinking Education AI Authorization Software Development IBM Mainframe Operating Systems
  • United States
  • $66,000 – $106,000/yr
  • Aug 31, 2026

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

NVIDIA
Backend Engineer Full-time
Infrastructure Automation Programming +12 Communication Planning Engineering Microsoft Teams Network Fundamentals Management Monitoring Observability Diagnostics Analysis Physics Mathematics
  • United States (US: CA, WA)
  • $152,000 – $287,500/yr
  • Aug 31, 2026

Sr Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Engineer, EDA Infrastructure NVIDIA is hiring engineers to build and scale the infrastructure that supports our Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads.

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