Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform
About The Position
Verkada is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Core Licensing & Devices team. The team owns the licensing layer that converts licenses into revenue, including a double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles licenses into daily revenue recognition. The system supports Finance’s book closing and auditor traceability, and is becoming increasingly critical as Verkada scales and faces tighter reporting and audit requirements. This role will own the ledger’s accounting model, invariants, and correctness guarantees under concurrency, retries, and failure. The engineer will design and lead systems for enterprise licensing, including pay-as-you-go metering and billing, fixed-term commitments, and product packaging. The role also involves building reconciliation and controls that support daily financial close and trace recognized dollars to their sources. The Staff Backend Engineer will work closely with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to translate revenue-recognition policy into precise, testable system behavior. They will lead major features end-to-end, provide technical direction and mentorship, improve operational rigor, and help shape the platform roadmap. This is an onsite role requiring attendance five days per week and U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability guarantees at scale.
- Depth in financial or transactional systems such as ledgers, double-entry accounting, billing, payments, or revenue recognition.
- Understanding of idempotency, exactly-once semantics, immutability, and reconciliation, with experience building systems that rely on these properties.
- Fluency in Python or Go; interviews will be conducted in one of these languages.
- Track record of partnering with Finance, Accounting, or other non-engineering stakeholders and translating policy and ambiguity into reliable systems.
- Ability at the Staff level to set technical direction across teams, shape shared architecture, and raise the bar for critical financial systems.
- U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance.
- Ability to work onsite five days per week.
Nice To Haves
- Experience preparing financial systems for SOX or external financial audits.
- Experience working closely with Finance and Accounting, or ability to learn an unfamiliar high-stakes domain quickly.
Responsibilities
- Own the double-entry accounting ledger, including its accounting model, invariants, and correctness guarantees under concurrency, retries, and failure.
- Design and lead systems for upmarket licensing, including pay-as-you-go metering and billing, fixed-term commitments, and enterprise customer packaging.
- Build reconciliation and controls that enable daily financial close and auditor traceability of recognized revenue to its source.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to translate revenue-recognition policy into precise, testable system behavior.
- Lead major features end-to-end through design reviews, code reviews, written documentation, and direct mentorship.
- Drive operational rigor through observability, strong SLOs, low pager noise, and blameless incident learning.
- Help shape the platform roadmap as Verkada scales and matures.
- Set technical direction across teams, shape shared architecture, and raise standards for designing and operating critical financial systems.
Benefits
- At least one healthcare plan with employee premiums fully covered and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions.
- Flexible Spending Account.
- Expanded mental health support.
- Paid parental leave.
- Fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays and firmwide extended holidays.
- Flexible paid time off and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
- Potential additional compensation depending on role, including discretionary bonuses and/or restricted stock units.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
