Top Remote Backend Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Own and evolve the Subscriptions and Payments backend: design APIs, integrate providers, improve reliability and scalability, lead architecture and code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in on-call rotations.

Lead technical strategy and execution for a backend ledger team building highly available, audit-grade financial systems. Drive architecture, reliability, monitoring, on-call practices, code quality, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring to ensure accurate, scalable ledger operations.

Design and implement backend and real-time features in the GitLab monolith for portfolio planning at scale. Optimize PostgreSQL performance, evolve APIs (GraphQL/REST), build capacity planning and work-item hierarchies, create proofs of concept, maintain automated tests, support safe rollouts with feature flags and observability, mentor contributors, and participate in on-call and production troubleshooting.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll design and operate backend services, lead technical initiatives, ensure reliability, and mentor team members in a remote-first setup.

Maintain and improve GameChanger's backend API server and SDK. Implement API/SDK changes, improve developer ergonomics, optimize performance and scalability, design critical systems, document and mentor teammates, and participate in on-call rotation.

Build and operate high-throughput backend services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines. Design scalable core platform services, collaborate with ML, frontend, and product teams, implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, and mentor junior engineers to deliver reliable, AI-powered features.

As a Staff Engineer for Revenue, you'll shape technical vision and architecture for billing and pricing systems, ensuring correctness while enhancing cross-team collaboration.

As a Software Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain IAM solutions, ensuring security and reliability while working with cloud computing standards.

Drive technical strategy and roadmap for Affirm's Online Storage platform. Design and build multi-region, highly available datastore solutions and control planes for hundreds of databases. Automate schema migrations, disaster recovery, sharding, and performance tuning. Collaborate with product, SRE, and infrastructure teams, own operations and on-call readiness, and mentor engineers while setting code and design standards.

Lead and set technical strategy for the Order Platform powering post-checkout flows (orders, captures, refunds, settlement). Design and ship highly available backend systems, own reliability/operational practices, mentor engineers, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive long-term technical decisions and execution plans.

Lead technical direction and architecture for DAP Repository Flows, design and ship autonomous and scheduled agents that operate on customer repositories, improve DAP onboarding, collaborate across teams on platform interfaces, mentor engineers, and solve high-scale technical problems to raise engineering quality.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own backend systems, mentor team members, and collaborate with product and design to build user-focused solutions.

Build, operate, and scale backend systems for card issuing and transaction processing. Break down projects, collaborate with product and cross-functional teams, write tested extensible code, support monitoring and on-call operations, and participate in team growth activities including interviews.

Lead design and implementation of Affirm's Lakehouse Platform using Iceberg, Spark, Snowflake, and cloud storage. Drive platform roadmap, governance, access controls, performance and cost optimization, analytics engineering best practices, observability, and on-call readiness. Partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and build scalable, secure, self-service data infrastructure and semantic/agentic data tools.

Build reliable AI-powered, agentic backend systems to remove friction across the software development lifecycle. Design multi-step orchestration, safety checks, and evaluation tooling; apply distributed-systems judgment; work across GitLab codebases and with a distributed team to productionize solutions that may become customer-facing.

Lead technical direction for a greenfield team building agentic/LLM-backed systems to reduce SDLC friction. Drive discovery through shipping, apply distributed-systems judgment at scale, mentor engineers, own technical hiring and cross-team alignment, and evaluate correctness and safety of agentic workflows.

Lead backend development for Dragos' OT security platform: design and implement high-performance systems in Rust, optimize architectures, participate across the development lifecycle, integrate databases and third-party data providers, incorporate AI tools, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-team architectural decisions.

Lead design and delivery of a reliability platform for production systems. Own quarterly goals, guide engineers through ambiguity, collaborate with PM/design/analytics, monitor and operate services (on-call), set quality and code standards, and mentor teammates. Integrate AI/LLM tooling to improve automation, debugging, and service health.

Lead delivery for the Batch Infrastructure team: design, build, and operate reliable, scalable compute platforms for scheduled and on-demand batch workloads. Collaborate with product/design/analytics, define technical plans, ensure availability (monitoring/on-call), set code and design standards, and mentor engineers to improve delivery and quality.

Lead backend engineering for cloud-native, event-driven data pipelines and customer integrations (especially EHRs). Evolve core data models and APIs, improve scalability and reliability, mentor engineers, define best practices, and drive end-to-end testing and AWS-based solutions.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

Build and maintain scalable integration and end-to-end test automation frameworks, optimize CI pipelines and test execution, improve test stability and reporting, support engineering teams with triage and best practices, write technical specs/ADRs, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate cross-functionally to evolve the company test strategy.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.

Design and build tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native, self-managed, and ephemeral environments. Shape deployment architecture, topology, scaling principles, and platform contracts while collaborating with application, infrastructure, and delivery teams.

Build and maintain agentic workflow components and the platform requirements knowledge base to ensure features ship across GitLabs deployment targets. Implement integration surfaces (issues, MRs, design docs, CI/CD), collaborate with platform teams to translate expertise into structured requirements, and write tests, documentation, and evaluations for agentic-workflow behavior and assessment accuracy.