Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - AI Agents Platform
Recruiting From Scratch · San Francisco, CA
$200,000–$250,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior or staff-level backend role at a high-growth AI company building the core platform that powers autonomous AI agents for enterprise customers. The work centers on designing distributed systems, scalable APIs, and production infrastructure that supports multi-step agent workflows and LLM-based reasoning at scale. Best suited to engineers with 6+ years of backend experience, ideally including hands-on work with AI/ML platforms or distributed systems in fast-moving startup settings.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 23,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,750–34,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title reads 'Senior / Staff Backend Engineer' — advertised seniority is taken as Senior (the lower of the two advertised bands); the 6+ years requirement and scope support Senior.
The posting states a base salary of $200,000–$250,000; OTE of $220,000–$300,000+ is also mentioned but reflects bonus/equity on top of base — only the base range is captured in the compensation fields.
A Bachelor's degree in CS or related field is listed as 'preferred', not required, so the degree requirement is set to None.
Vertical SaaS experience is explicitly flagged as 'preferred' in the experience requirements section.
Workflow orchestration / multi-step agent systems appear in the technical requirements but are framed as experience rather than a hard gate alongside the core distributed-systems and LLM requirements; retained as preferred given the overall framing.
The caller has instructed this be treated as fully remote; the posting itself describes a Redwood City, CA hybrid role — no metro is recorded per caller instruction.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): backend engineering, production operations, workflow orchestration.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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