2 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of deployed devices.
- Work with Redis, DynamoDB, Postgres, Kafka, and SQS for storage, databases, logging, and message passing.
- Deploy services using Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Develop large-scale systems for remotely interacting with and configuring products.
- Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures.
- Design and develop features incorporating computer vision.
- Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go.
Requirements
- Be able to work on-site at Verkada headquarters in San Mateo, California during winter or summer 2027.
- Be actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a similar technical field and graduate by June 2028.
- Have prior internship experience developing and launching products.
- Be familiar with Python or Golang, distributed systems, operating systems, AWS, and Docker.
- Be comfortable working in an agile software development environment.
- Familiarity with REST APIs and Linux servers is a plus.
Benefits
- Monthly housing stipend in addition to a competitive hourly wage.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Commuter benefits.
- Daily catered lunch, complimentary barista-made drinks, and stocked snacks onsite.
- Intern-exclusive events and mixers.
- Cross-functional collaboration opportunities.
- Lunch & Learns with company executives.
- Mentorship and team-building opportunities.
- On-site internship at Verkada headquarters in San Mateo, California during winter or summer 2027.
- Employment visa sponsorship and continued sponsorship may be available.
Tech Stack
About Verkada
Verkada builds a cloud-managed physical security platform for enterprises, combining security cameras, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management with web and mobile software. It sells hardware plus software licenses through a subscription model to organizations like schools, retailers, and industrial sites. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Verkada reports 30,000+ customers worldwide and is privately held.