Verkada

Verkada

Staff Backend Engineer - Streaming

San Mateo, CA United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$130k-$300kDetected 5 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesData EngineeringAgentic AIExcelValuation

About the role

  • At the core of our mission is video-powering everything from real-time monitoring to historical playback for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.
  • By continually advancing our technology, we ensure that every frame-whether live or months old-is always available instantly, seamlessly, and securely.
  • As a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will directly shape how millions of people rely on video every day to stay safe.

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve highly scalable, cloud-native services that power video and audio streaming for millions of devices.
  • Architect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines that connect cameras, the cloud, and end users with low latency and high reliability.
  • Build and operate a high-performance video transcoding and multiplexing service that is fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and capable of scaling to massive workloads.
  • Develop clean, reliable, and testable backend code that performs under heavy load and ensures a flawless customer experience.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver new video capabilities and experiences that raise the bar for the industry.
  • 7+ years experience designing and building large-scale, resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
  • You bring a systems design mindset, able to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable, efficient solutions.
  • You care deeply about performance, reliability, and security, and have a track record of building services that excel in all three.
  • Collaborate with top-tier engineers and see your work make an immediate impact on products trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.
  • We support global talent: Verkada sponsors employment visas and can assume existing sponsorships.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
  • 6+ years experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
  • 6+ years experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Nice to have

  • Tackle some of the most challenging and rewarding problems at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data, and multimedia.
  • Join a company with proven product-market fit-enjoy the speed, ownership, and impact of a startup, with the stability of a healthy, scaling business.
  • Grow a career at a place that values innovation, technical excellence, and end-to-end ownership.

Compensation

  • Annual Pay Range
  • Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
  • Estimated Annual Pay Range
  • $130,000 - $300,000 USD

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

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

Visa & Work Authorization

  • If you receive an offer, we'll make every reasonable effort to secure the visa.
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