Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

parallel· Engineering
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📍 San Francisco or Palo AltoFullTime💰 USD 150K–300K/yr

About this role

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.

Job: 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.

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.

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.

Compensation & benefits

  • Competitive salary

  • Generous equity

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

  • Daily lunch & office snacks

  • Dinner at the office

  • Unlimited vacation

  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

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What is the salary for the Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API role at parallel?
The listed salary for this Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API position at parallel is USD 150K–300K/yr. This is an FullTime role.
Where is the Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API position at parallel located?
This Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API role at parallel is based in San Francisco or Palo Alto. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API role at parallel full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API role in the Engineering department at parallel.
Which team or department does the Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API at parallel belong to?
This Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API position is part of the Engineering department at parallel. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API job at parallel posted?
This Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API position at parallel was posted on Aug 13, 2025. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API
parallel · 💰 USD 150K–300K/yr
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