Backend Engineer Salary in San Francisco (2026)

Top-paying companies in San Francisco

Median of disclosed midpoints; companies with at least 3 disclosed salaries.

Recent Backend Engineer jobs with disclosed pay

• Staff Software Engineer, Backend — Archer56 · San Jose, California, United States · $190k–$237k
• Helix AI Engineer, Backend Infrastructure — Figureai · San Jose, CA · $200k–$400k
• Backend Infrastructure Engineer — Firecrawl · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) OR Remote (Americas, UTC-3 to UTC-10) · $200k–$250k
• Senior Backend Engineer - Product — Mercury · Remote · $167k–$208k
• Backend Software Engineer — Data Platform & AI Data Products — Togetherai · San Francisco · $120k–$170k
• Senior Backend Engineer, Inference Platform — Togetherai · San Francisco · $160k–$250k
• Staff Backend Engineer — Commure · Mountain View, CA · $200k–$250k
• Senior Backend Engineer — Tatari · San Francisco, California, United States · $170k–$200k
• Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) — Otterai · Mountain View, CA · $210k–$275k
• Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure) — Otterai · Mountain View, CA · $185k–$230k

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Methodology

Figures are computed from base-salary ranges that employers disclose directly on live job postings tracked by ForgeApply (as of 2026-07-14). For each posting we take the midpoint of the disclosed range, then report the median and the 25th–75th percentile band across all matching postings. Postings without disclosed pay are excluded, which can skew results toward companies and states with pay transparency requirements. This is marketplace data about current openings, not an estimate of total compensation or of any individual offer.

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