Verkada

Verkada

Senior Backend Engineer

San Mateo, CA United States · Senior · Full-time

H1B sponsorship available$170k-$260kDetected 5 days ago
PythonGoReactDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLMySQLRedisAWSGCPAzuregRPCKafkaAgentic AIValuationCommunication

About the role

  • We are looking for experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Command team.
  • We are scaling out the Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities of Verkada's core products to service the largest organizations in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all Verkada products
  • Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
  • Experience in building and scaling access systems to millions of users around the world

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
  • 4+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
  • Experience with key-value storage systems (Redis, Memcached)
  • Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching (Redis, Memcached)
  • Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with React
  • Experience with GRPC and API specifications

Compensation

  • Estimated Annual Pay Range

Benefits

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Fertility Stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Commuter 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company.

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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