Backend Engineer

About the role

Who We Are

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.

What You'll Do

- Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems capable of handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed globally.

- Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components to support reliable product functionality across Verkada’s platform.

- Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and maintainability.

- Build and deploy new backend services within 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 that support customer-facing product features.

- Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable software development.

What You Bring

- A 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

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