Backend Engineer

Verkada • San Mateo, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Verkada is hiring a Backend Engineer to build backend systems for its integrated, privacy-sensitive, AI-powered platform for physical security and building management. The platform includes video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management, and supports more than 2 million devices deployed across more than 170 countries.

The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable distributed systems and backend services that support high-volume traffic from globally deployed devices. The engineer will develop services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components; design scalable control planes and data primitives; and build and support microservices across their full lifecycle. The position requires onsite work five days per week and a bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.
• Must be independently authorized to work in the United States; the company is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems capable of handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of globally deployed devices.
• Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components for reliable platform functionality.
• Design scalable control planes and data primitives, with attention to availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and deploy backend services in a microservices architecture, including service design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, firmware, and frontend engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver backend systems for customer-facing features.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices.

Benefits

• At least one healthcare plan with employee premiums 100% covered and family premiums 80% covered under all plans.
• Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account.
• Expanded mental health support.
• Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
• Paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
• Professional development stipend.
• Fertility stipend.
• Wellness and fitness benefits.
• Healthy lunches provided daily.
• Commuter benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time