Verkada
Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure
San Mateo, CA United States · Junior · Full-time
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About the role
- Some example projects include scaling microservice clusters, automating serverless deployment, adopting full service mesh and enhancing observability.
- We are committed to a thriving in-office culture.
- This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and deploy software to manage and automate our cloud infrastructure.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand their infrastructure needs and provide robust solutions.
- Contribute to the architecture and design of new and existing cloud services.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure high availability and performance.
Requirements
- Must have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study
- 1+ years of experience on cloud infrastructure or backend systems.
- Experience in Python and/or Go
- Experience with one of the major cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Strong written and verbal communications
- US Employee Benefits
- Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
Nice to have
- Experience with Terraform is preferred
- Experience with Kubernetes is preferred
- Experience with a service mesh such as Istio is preferred
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, prometheus or opentelemetry is preferred
- Experience with contributing to open source projects is preferred
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.
- 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.
- We're rapidly scaling this impact:
- today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.
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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