Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Parallel Web Systems

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San Francisco or Palo Alto on site Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 18, 2026 Last posted March 18, 2026
Job description

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

Compensation (from employer):
$150K – $300K • Offers Equity

About this role

Summary

Build and maintain backend systems and APIs ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer-friendliness.

Job title

Member of Technical Staff, Back-end & API

Experience level

not specified

Industry

software

Location requirements

onsite in san francisco or palo alto, no remote allowed.

Salary

$150K – $300K • Offers Equity

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

distributed systemsdatabasesAPI design

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

distributed systemsdatabasesAPI design
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City

Palo Alto, CA, USA

On-site City