Senior Backend Engineer - Camera Platform

Verkada

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 15 offices across three continents, 1,600+ full-time employees and 20,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

Overview

In the newly formed camera platform team, we are building a) distributed low-latency alert and notification systems that will be used by hundreds of thousands Verkada devices all around the world; b) Verkada’s incident management platform that enables AI-driven investigation and evidence management across our ecosystem and c) our Public API that enables programmatic interaction with Verkada devices that includes our enterprise video search system (Helix).

Responsibilities: 

  • Develop our alert and notification experience, including alert creation and management
  • Create state of the art investigation pipeline that prioritizes privacy while protecting people and properties
  • Comfortable leading whole projects from design to implementation with high degree of ownership
  • Work on cross-product functionality to enhance Verkada ecosystem

Requirements: 

  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study
  • 4+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer
  • Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang 
  • Experience working with databases including DynamoDB, Postgres, ElasticSearch and Redis
  • Strong distributed system background, particularly around building data-intensive applications
  • Experience in building large-scale real-time system would be a plus

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

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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