Senior Backend Engineer - Response Egineering

Who We Are

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

About the Alarms Team:

Verkada’s mission is to protect people and property in a privacy-sensitive manner. Key to that mission is the capability to identify and respond to threats in a highly-reliable and time-sensitive manner. Response Engineering is the team at Verkada tasked with this responsibility.

As a member of Response Engineering, you will be responsible for building a platform used by all Verkada products to orchestrate mitigation actions in response to alarms, like Video Verification, Customer Notifications and Police Dispatch. We build user-facing applications and back-end services that enable customers to manage and resolve incidents in collaboration with emergency dispatch operators and AI-assisted automation workflows.

You’ll be working alongside a small, dynamic team of frontend, backend and firmware engineers to build a response management system that is highly critical to keeping our customers safe and secure. Our team operates as a startup within a startup, so you can expect a lot of autonomy and impact on the direction of how Verkada handles threat management.

As a back-end engineer you will:

• Build, test and operate highly scalable, available and fault-tolerant distributed systems while minimizing API and end-to-end latency


• Design and build a flexible and extensible workflow orchestration engine that handles complex conditional logic and interactions with both internal and external services to execute customer-defined actions like customer notification, call transcription and emergency dispatch


• Design and build monitoring capability that provides real-time updates to customers about on-going incidents


• Innovate with bleeding-edge cloud native tools and frameworks like Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS RDS, Temporal, etc.


• Innovate with AI-driven automation to make threat detection and mitigation more efficient in terms of cost and time


• Collaborate with product managers, UX designers and front-end engineers to identify and solve customer problems


• Deliver quality code by following best practices in testing, version control, and continuous deployment

• 4+ years of industry software engineering experience.


• Mastery of at least one common server programming language (e.g. Python or Go)


• Mastery of scalable backend design — Including databases, queues and blob storage


• Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment.

Recommended Skills:

• Advanced software architecture and API design experience


• Good understanding of at least one relational database technology, including performance and load characteristics, transactions and locking


• Experience with some of the following technologies: Postgres or MySQL, Distributed high concurrency key-value storage (Redis, DynamoDB), Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, Embedded systems (Raspbian, Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS)

Perks & Benefits

• Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage


• Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays


• Wellness allowance


• Commuter benefits


• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily


• Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Culture and Values:

• Self-motivated problem solver: At Verkada, you will tackle large, complex problems with no clear answers.


• Teach and learn: You will learn new technologies while being entrusted with the technical ownership of major systems, and we hope to learn something from you in turn.


• Growth mindset: As a small, fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth, and we want you to grow with us!

Pay Disclosure

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$130,000—$280,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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