2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services for alarm detection and response.
- Create extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases.
- Build distributed systems integrating internal products and third-party notification, transcription, and dispatch services.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, frontend engineers, and firmware engineers on end-to-end customer experiences.
- Own systems from design through production while promoting testing, observability, and continuous deployment best practices.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
- Strong programming skills, with Go preferred.
- Knowledge of distributed systems design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
- Experience with databases such as Postgres and scalable data systems such as Kafka and Redis.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver robust, maintainable software in fast-paced teams.
- Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines is a bonus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization is a bonus.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with at least one plan fully covering employee premiums and all plans covering 80% of family premiums.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Expanded mental health support, paid parental leave, and fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend and fertility stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits, healthy lunches provided daily, and commuter benefits.
- Employment visa sponsorship is available.
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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.