Backend Engineer, Alarms

Verkada•San Mateo, CA

13h•$125,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Verkada's Alarms team builds the intelligent systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats—whether it's a break-in or suspicious activity caught on video. We combine intrusion sensors, cameras, and AI to create a fast, reliable, and modern security experience. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows. These systems power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch—all in real time. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.

Requirements

1-3 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
Strong programming skills—Go preferred
Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows
Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis)

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
Experience developing AI-based systems capable of real-time reasoning from video and audio inputs.

Responsibilities

Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences