2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve scalable cloud-native services for video and audio streaming.
- Architect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines connecting cameras, cloud services, and end users.
- Build and operate fault-tolerant, cost-efficient video transcoding and multiplexing services.
- Define service-oriented architectures, APIs, and interfaces for platform-wide streaming.
- Develop clean, reliable, testable backend code that performs under heavy load.
- Collaborate with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams on new video capabilities.
- Drive engineering improvements in performance, reliability, and best practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
- 7+ years of experience designing and building large-scale resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
- 6+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation such as AWS, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- 6+ years of experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Ability to apply systems design principles to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable solutions.
- Track record of building services with strong performance, reliability, and security.
- Bonus experience with IoT devices, real-time streaming technologies, or multimedia formats and pipelines such as H.264, H.265, or FFmpeg.
Benefits
- Healthcare, medical, vision, and dental coverage, including employee premium coverage under at least one plan and family premium coverage under all plans.
- 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 and fertility stipends.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employment visa sponsorship and sponsorship takeover are available.
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.