6 months ago
Base Salary
$130k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build distributed backend systems for AI-driven detection, monitoring, and response workflows
- Develop real-time pipelines for large volumes of video, audio, and sensor data
- Architect event-driven systems that automate alerts, verification, and escalation
- Build infrastructure for deploying and integrating large video and audio models into production
- Prototype and deploy new AI-powered capabilities
- Optimize systems for low latency, high availability, and reliability across cloud and edge environments
- Collaborate on end-to-end intelligent safety and automation systems
- Establish observability, testing, and continuous deployment practices for AI-integrated backend services
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
- Experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and scalable APIs
- Proven experience building large-scale, data-intensive, or AI-powered systems
- Experience with real-time data pipelines and high-throughput systems
- Familiarity with deploying or integrating machine learning models, particularly for video, audio, or multimodal applications
- Strong programming skills in Go or Python and experience with modern cloud infrastructure
- Experience with databases and streaming systems such as Kafka, Temporal, and Postgres
- Ability to prototype, experiment, and iterate in ambiguous problem spaces
- Experience delivering reliable, production-grade systems end-to-end
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 holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility stipend
- Wellness and fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
- Employment visa sponsorship is available
Tech Stack
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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.