Backend Software Engineering Intern 2027

Verkada•San Mateo, CA

75d•$55 - $65•Onsite

About The Position

Verkada is seeking software engineering interns to join their team for an exciting and challenging internship. Interns will thrive in a startup culture, working alongside teammates to launch products utilized by customers globally. As an intern with the Backend Engineering team, you will have opportunities to work across the full software stack and collaborate cross-functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada’s flagship software, enabling their best-in-class security systems. This role requires an on-site presence at their HQ in San Mateo, CA.

Requirements

Ability to work at Verkada HQ during winter or summer 2027
Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study and graduating by June 2028
Prior internship experience developing and launching products
Familiar with: Python or Golang, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, AWS, Docker, etc
Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment

Nice To Haves

Familiar with REST APIs and Linux servers are a plus

Responsibilities

Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world
Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
Work with Postgres relational databases
Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS
Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes
Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely
Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures
Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision
Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go