Backend Engineer salary

Typical advertised pay for Backend Engineer roles, from real job postings on FindRole.

Median advertised base salary

$206,000

Most postings fall between $180,400 and $228,950.

Based on 31 postings across 17 companies. Updated October 31, 2026.

As of October 2026, the median advertised base salary for Backend Engineer roles is $206,000, based on 31 live job postings from 17 employers tracked by FindRole.

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Salary by seniority

Level	25th %ile	Median	75th %ile	Postings
Senior	$173,160	$212,138	$238,738	14

Skills employers ask for

Share of Backend Engineer postings that name each skill.

Kubernetes 48% · 15 of 31
Go 42% · 13 of 31
AWS 39% · 12 of 31
Python 35% · 11 of 31
Java 32% · 10 of 31
CI/CD 29% · 9 of 31
Distributed Systems 26% · 8 of 31
Docker 26% · 8 of 31
GCP 26% · 8 of 31
Kafka 26% · 8 of 31
REST 26% · 8 of 31
Microservices 19% · 6 of 31

Counted once per posting across 31 Backend Engineer postings with an extracted skill list, as of October 2026. Spellings are folded to one name (K8s → Kubernetes) — see methodology.

Related roles

Titles whose postings ask for many of the same skills.

Engineer shares Kubernetes, Go, AWS median $181,250
Software Engineer shares Kubernetes, Go, AWS median $195,500
Full Stack Engineer shares Kubernetes, Go, AWS median $211,200
Solutions Architect shares Kubernetes, AWS, Python median $196,750
Software Engineering shares Kubernetes, AWS, Python median $178,325
Architect shares Kubernetes, AWS, Python median $222,500

Remote vs. onsite

Remote median

$206,000

11 postings

Onsite median

$211,900

20 postings

Top companies hiring Backend Engineers

GitLab 6 postings · median $201,000
Apple Inc 4 postings · median $254,750
Reddit 3 postings · median $228,950
Gen Digital 2 postings · median $191,740
Ramp 2 postings · median $234,000
Comcast 2 postings · median $171,408
Stripe 2 postings · median $221,200
Cisco 1 postings · median $227,300

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These figures are the midpoint of the advertised salary range on real Backend Engineer job postings indexed by FindRole — employer-stated base pay, not total compensation (they exclude equity and bonuses), and they reflect the roles we index rather than the whole market. A guide, not a guarantee.