Verkada

Verkada

Backend Engineer, Alarms

San Mateo, CA United States · Full-time

H1B sponsorship available$125k-$160kDetected 11 hours ago
Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisCloud PlatformsTemporalKafkaAgentic AIValuation

About the role

  • As a Backend Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows.
  • These systems power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch-all in real time.
  • You'll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada's hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
  • Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
  • Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows
  • Experience developing AI-based systems capable of real-time reasoning from video and audio inputs.

Requirements

  • 1-3 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
  • Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines

Nice to have

  • Strong programming skills-Go preferred

Compensation

  • Estimated Annual Pay Range

Benefits

  • Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage
  • Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays
  • Wellness allowance
  • Commuter benefits
  • Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Growth mindset: As a small, fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth, and we want you to grow with us!
  • Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
  • Perks & Benefits

Company info

  • Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • About the Alarms Team:
  • We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more.
  • Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
  • You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world.
  • It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens.
  • The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE.
  • The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes.
  • We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
  • The Alarms team builds systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats using sensors, cameras, and AI.
  • You'll work on products that are critical during high-stakes moments and directly impact customer safety.
  • We operate as a small, fast-moving team with significant ownership, collaborating across mobile, backend, and firmware.

Equal opportunity

  • Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
  • As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.
  • If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.
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