Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Parallel Web Systems parallel.ai Open · verified Oct 24, 2026

On-site San Francisco Full-time Senior Backend Engineering

At a glance

Senior Backend Engineering role at Parallel Web Systems. San Francisco · full-time · $150,000–$300,000 base.

SalaryStated by Parallel Web Systems

$150,000 – $300,000

Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.

This role, from Parallel Web SystemsOur estimate for the market: $208,350–$254,000Median $228,750

The range includes the market median of $228,750 for senior backend engineering roles in San Francisco.

Worked out from 70 postings that stated pay, median $228,750. Last updated Oct 13, 2026.

RoleBackend Engineering

SenioritySenior

LocationSan Francisco

WorkplaceOn-site

EmploymentFull-time

Base pay$150,000–$300,000

PostedAug 13, 2025 · 1y ago

Role brief

techroles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Build and operate backend services that process millions of custom requests each day, keeping them reliable and fast
Shape the API so developers can understand it and integrate with it easily
Balance speed, scalability and ease of use as you make backend and API design decisions

What you bring

You bring strong judgment across distributed systems, databases, maintainable code and API design
You have a bachelor's degree or an equivalent mix of education, training and professional experience
Your relevant preparation comes through coursework, training or professional experience

Who this fits

This senior role suits someone who enjoys weighing performance and scalability against developer usability. You’ll work fully in person at the Palo Alto headquarters or San Francisco office.

From the employer

About us

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

The role:

You will build and maintain our backend that already handles millions of custom requests daily, and ensure that it’s reliable, performant and exceeds expectations for our customers as we scale. You will also be a steward of our API and ensure that it’s developer-friendly and easy to integrate with.

About you:

Have deep intuition on distributed systems, databases, maintainable code design, and API design. You like to reason about trade-offs between speed, scalability, and developer ergonomics. You care about your work powering products and systems that millions rely on, and about APIs that developers love to use.

You might be a good fit if you have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Years of experience required will correlated with the internal job level requirements for this position.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.