Senior Backend Engineer

4 weeks ago


San Mateo, California, United States Verkada Full time

About Verkada

Verkada is a leading cloud-based B2B physical security platform company that offers a range of innovative products, including video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace, and intercoms. Our platform is designed to provide real-time insights and empower organizations to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations, and costly inefficiencies.

Our Team

We are a dynamic team of engineers focused on building cloud-managed environmental sensors. Our product allows clients to monitor their environment with sensors that can measure temperature, humidity, and air quality. We are a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You will be working alongside a team of firmware, backend, and frontend engineers to develop this product line.

What You Will Do

  • Design and develop scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
  • Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems, such as Redis and DynamoDB.
  • Spin up new services in a microservices architecture.
  • Help lead and grow junior engineers.
  • Own and maintain a public API that our customers use to pull historical data.
  • Build backend applications from end-to-end with an 'owner's' mentality.
  • Communicate with engineering teams throughout the organization to build world-class products.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
  • 4+ years of work experience in a backend engineering role.
  • Mastery of at least one common server programming language, such as Python or Go.
  • Mastery of scalable distributed system design, including databases, queues, and blob storage.
  • Experience working in an agile team software development environment.

Nice to Have

  • Software architecture and API design.
  • Good understanding of databases, including SQL, relational database design, performance, and load characteristics, transactions, and locking.
  • Experience with technologies such as Docker, AWS, k8s, and asynchronous data processing and stream processing.

Culture and Values

  • Self-motivated problem solver: 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.
  • Growth mindset: As a fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth.

Perks and Benefits

  • Generous company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • Unlimited paid time off and 11 company-wide paid holidays.
  • Wellness allowance.
  • Commuter benefits.
  • Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily.
  • Generous paid parental leave policy and fertility benefits.

Pay Disclosure

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them fairly. We consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay, including primary work location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on these factors, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is just one component of Verkada's total rewards package.

Estimated Annual Pay Range $130,000—$300,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals 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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