Software engineer jobs in Berkeley, CA and nearby

Software engineer jobs within 25 miles of Berkeley, CA. Nearby towns and cities are included. Distances are straight-line, not driving distances.

Counted Oct 30, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 3,270
Employers: 853

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $195,112Across 1,329 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $58.72Across 53 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 0%0 listings
Hybrid: 24%780 listings
On-site: 26%845 listings

Not specified: 50% (1,645 listings)

Employers hiring include OpenAI (141), Roblox (121), Raydar (100).

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These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

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Guidance reviewed on September 16, 2026.

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Software engineer jobs in Berkeley, CA and nearby

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Founding Backend Software Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
- $225,000 to $275,000 USD / year
Join a small team building generative AI video technology as its founding backend engineer. You will lead backend engineering and shape the infrastructure and standards that support the…
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Sr Software Engineer - Web Platform
Uber
San Francisco, CA
- $202,000 to $224,000 USD / year
The Web Platform team is looking for a senior engineer to join the team responsible for the foundation of all web applications at Uber. We provide a high-performance, secure, and reliable…
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Software Engineer, Discovery UX
Roblox
San Mateo, CA
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Founding Backend Engineer
Clera
San Francisco, CA
- $200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
…communicates across text, email, and phone. As the founding backend engineer, you will own the reliable systems behind its messaging and agent workflows, from design through production…
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Software Engineer
Clera
San Francisco, CA
- Up to $180,000 USD / year
Join a software engineering team building and maintaining products for an employer-of-record and offshore staffing business. This role contributes to the team's engineering work and…
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Senior Software Engineer, Web
Knowtex
San Francisco, CA
- $180,000 to $220,000 USD / year
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Product Engineer (Software Engineer)
Clera
San Francisco, CA
- $120,000 to $200,000 USD / year
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Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Niantic Spatial
San Francisco, CA
- $171,000 to $230,000 USD / year
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[2027] Senior Software Engineer - Data Acquisition PhD Early Career
Roblox
San Mateo, CA
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Senior Software Engineer, Edge Security
Fastly
San Francisco, CA
…the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s…
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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
San Francisco, CA
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
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Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Harvey
San Francisco, CA
- $231,000 to $314,350 USD / year
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Senior Software Engineer I, Specialty Care Growth
Spring Health
San Francisco, CA
- $183,000 to $205,500 USD / year
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Ground Software Engineer - Core
Loft Orbital Solutions
San Francisco, CA
- $150,000 to $195,000 USD / year
Loft Orbital is looking for a Software Engineer to join our Core team within Ground Platform. The team develops the core capabilities that support Loft's ground platform, improve…
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Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform
Scale AI
San Francisco, CA
Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal…
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Salesforce Technical Architect (Software Engineer IV)
Robert Half
San Ramon, CA
We are looking for a Salesforce Technical Architect (Software Engineer IV) to lead the technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of a large-scale Salesforce environment. This role…
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer - ThousandEyes(Hybrid)
Cisco
San Francisco, CA
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Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Google
San Bruno, CA · San Francisco, CA
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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
- $200,000 to $300,000 USD / year
Join a small AI and machine learning product team as a staff-level infrastructure engineer. You will build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure that supports AI agent workloads and…
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Full Stack Software Engineer
Manpower Engineering
Foster City, CA
- $36 USD / hour
Our client is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to join their organization. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will be part of the Processes & Tools team supporting program…
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Software Engineer, Augmented Reality, Level 4
Specs Inc.
San Francisco, CA
- $133,000 to $235,000 USD / year
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Software Engineer, Production Test
Zipline
South San Francisco, CA
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Founding Software Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
- $200,000 to $250,000 USD / year
Join an early-stage enterprise AI team building software that helps organizations manage supplier spend and enforce contract terms. As a founding engineer, you will deliver full-stack…
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Staff Software Engineer
DataRobot, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
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Senior Software Engineer
True Talent Solutions Partners
San Francisco, CA
- $200,000 to $240,000 USD / year
Join an engineering team building software for construction and field services businesses. You will own complex, full-stack projects that improve how contractors manage people, finances,…

Scale AI

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

San Francisco, CA, United States
NY, United States

$252,000 - $315,000 USD

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Pay: $252,000 - $315,000 USD
Posting language: English
Posted: Jan 15, 2026

Original job description

Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times – AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. To make them safe, aligned and actually useful, these models need human evaluation and reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF) during pre-training, fine-tuning, and production evaluations. This is the main innovation that’s enabled ChatGPT to get such a large headstart among competition.

At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI.

At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and development of core data storage, streaming, caching, and indexing platforms and underlying systems. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies.

You will:

Drive the architecture, design, implementation, and reliability of our foundational data platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
Proactively identify opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades.
Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies.
Provide technical leadership, including: upholding and upleveling engineering standards across the organization, mentoring junior engineers.

Ideally you’d have:

8+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialties in back-end systems, specifically related to building large-scale data storage, streaming, and warehousing systems.
Extensive experience in various database technologies (MongoDB, Postgres), streaming/processing solutions (Kinesis, Flink, Spark), indexing/caching (ElasticSearch, Redis), and various data query engines (Trino, Presto, Snowflake, etc.).
Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects.
Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience working fluently with standard containerization & deployment technologies like Kubernetes and various public cloud offerings.
Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms and data systems.
Experience driving cross functional collaboration and communication at an organizational or broader level.

Nice to haves:

Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI).
Experience with performance tuning and cost optimizations of cloud based data platforms.
Experience defining a data lifecycle strategy and designing/implementing tooling for data privacy (i.e. GDPR) needs.
Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups.
Excitement to work with AI technologies.

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located. For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is:

$252,000 - $315,000 USD

PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.

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Skills

Data storage
Leadership
Coaching
Warehouse operations
MongoDB
Apache Spark
Elasticsearch
Redis
Snowflake
Communication skills
Collaboration
Kubernetes
Software development
CI/CD

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