Verkada

Verkada

Senior Backend Engineer - Device Platform

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

No sponsorship$190k-$275kDetected 5 days ago
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Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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Green-card follow-through: 100%

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About the role

  • Verkada already operates at millions of devices, and we're scaling the platform for the next order of magnitude - with the consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees our enterprise customers depend on.
  • Hitting that scale isn't just a technical problem.
  • We're creating the IoT core that every product team across Verkada relies on to accelerate their roadmaps.

Responsibilities

  • Senior engineers on this team architect, ship, and bring others along. We learn and teach as we build.
  • Design and lead major platform features end-to-end, such as the IoT core, the device-metrics platform, or the licensing ledger.
  • Lead operational improvements that increase system robustness, reduce pager noise, and help the team learn from incidents when they occur.
  • Teach as you ship - through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written communication, and direct mentorship.
  • Listen to other Verkada teams, and help drive the platform's roadmap toward the company's biggest long-term bets.
  • We learn and teach as we build.
  • We do as much cross-team alignment as deep systems design, and hold a high bar on both execution and communication with our peers.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience building backend services with consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees at scale.
  • Skilled at listening to other engineering teams, shaping shared technical direction, and shipping changes they can build on without surprise.
  • This role requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Fluency in at least one server language - Python or Go preferred
  • adjacent languages like Ruby or JavaScript (NodeJs) welcome.

Compensation

  • Estimated Annual Pay Range

Benefits

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs
  • 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

  • This role does not offer visa sponsorship.
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