Base Salary
$125k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build scalable distributed systems handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of globally deployed devices
- Work with high-concurrency key-value storage systems including Redis and DynamoDB
- Work with Postgres relational databases
- Use logging and message-passing technologies such as Kafka and SQS
- 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
- At least 1 year of backend engineering experience in a production environment
- BS or MS in Computer Science or a similar technical field
- Experience developing and launching products
- Working knowledge of Python and/or Go
- Familiarity with REST APIs
- Ability to read Python server code is a plus
- Comfort working in an agile software development environment
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with at least one employee-premium-free plan and 80% family-premium coverage under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
- Paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Wellness and fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
- Employment visa sponsorship is available
Tech Stack
Categories
About Verkada
Transforming how organizations protect people and places. Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive platform that includes video security, access control, sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. Today, more than 30,000 organizations, including 100+ Fortune 500 companies, rely on Verkada. With over $1B in annualized bookings, a $5.8B valuation, and backing from NVIDIA, CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, and Next47, we’re scaling rapidly across the global market. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it. From retail stores preventing theft before it happens, to warehouses using AI-powered alerts to improve worker safety, to schools detecting and responding to threats in seconds, not minutes, Verkada is redefining what modern physical security can do. More than 2 million devices are now deployed across 170+ countries, and we’re just getting started.