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Job Description
Verkada is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Core Platform team. This individual will play a crucial role in building the platform and shared services that power Verkada's suite of IoT devices and its "operating system for buildings." The ideal candidate will be an architect, designer, and developer, contributing to a wide range of projects.
Role involves:
- Building scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic.
- Working with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB).
- Spinning up new services in a microservices architecture.
- Helping lead and grow junior engineers.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience driving technical direction and leading teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Mastery of at least one common server programming language (Python, Go).
- Experience with relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, etc.
- Experience with distributed systems at scale.
Verkada offers:
- 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
