Backend Engineer
CohereSan Francisco, CAremote$135K–$226KCore ProductPosted 20d ago · Aug 25, 2026
Cohere is hiring a backend engineer to work on software engineering for enterprise language models with a private-deployment posture.
What you would own
- Design, build and operate services that carry production traffic.
- Raise the reliability and latency bar for the systems you own.
- Review designs and mentor engineers across the team.
Skills
TypeScriptGoPythonKubernetesPostgreSQLReactAWSGoogle CloudRustgRPCTerraform
What Agraph knows about Cohere
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Employees
480
+10% 90d
Open roles
62
+13% 30d
Remote share
42%
Activity score
62
0–100
Compensation
Research Engineer pay at Cohere up 13% year over year
Median posted compensation for research engineer roles moved from about $230K to $260K across 44 observed postings and reports.
Research Engineer median$260K+13%/ 12 months
Pay moving this fast usually signals a supply shortage rather than a general raise.
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