Responsibilities
- Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products.
- Build distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
- Create new services within a microservices architecture.
- Scale Auth, Users, Roles, and Audit capabilities for core products.
Requirements
- Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience building and scaling access systems for millions of users worldwide.
- Mastery of at least one of Python or Go.
- Experience with relational databases including Postgres and MySQL.
- Experience with key-value storage and caching systems including Redis and Memcached.
- Experience with distributed queueing using Kafka.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with React, gRPC, and API specifications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to work onsite five days per week.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account with annual 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.
- Fertility stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employment visa sponsorship and sponsorship takeover may be available.
- Onsite work five days per week.
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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.