Verkada
Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform
San Mateo, CA United States · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- This is the system Finance closes the books on and the one auditors trace, so every entry has to be right.
- We're a small, high-trust, high-autonomy team.
- We give and receive feedback directly, we learn out loud, and we hold a high bar on both execution and written communication.
Responsibilities
- Own the double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles licensing into daily revenue recognition - its accounting model, its invariants, and its correctness guarantees under concurrency, retries, and failure.
- Build reconciliation and controls that let Finance close the books daily and let auditors trace any recognized dollar back to its source - with the auditability, immutability, and lineage a maturing company requires.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to turn revenue-recognition policy (ASC 606, deferred revenue, contract modifications, true-ups) into precise, testable system behavior.
- Lead major features end-to-end and bring others along - through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written docs, and direct mentorship.
- Design and lead the systems behind upmarket licensing:
- We want to build an inclusive team. Research consistently shows that candidates from underrepresented groups apply less often than is warranted - if this opportunity is a positive challenge for your career, please apply.
Requirements
- Comfort working shoulder-to-shoulder with Finance and Accounting - or a track record of getting deep in an unfamiliar, high-stakes domain fast.
- A track record of partnering with Finance, Accounting, or other non-engineering stakeholders, translating policy and ambiguity into systems they can rely on without surprise.
- 8+ years building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability guarantees at scale.
- Depth in financial or transactional systems: ledgers, double-entry accounting, billing, payments, or revenue recognition - you understand why idempotency, exactly-once semantics, immutability, and reconciliation matter, and you've built for them.
- Fluency in Python or Go
- other backend languages can contribute to your experience, but the interviews will be conducted in one of the above.
- At the Staff level: the ability to set technical direction across teams, shape shared architecture, and raise the bar on how the org designs and operates critical financial systems.
- Bonus: experience preparing financial systems for audit (SOX or external financial audit).
- 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
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
Compensation
- Estimated Annual Pay Range
Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
- 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
- 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
- citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week
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