Senior Backend Engineer - Response Engineering

Job Description

Verkada is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Response Engineering team. This team is responsible for building a platform used by all Verkada products to orchestrate mitigation actions in response to alarms. The engineer 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. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building scalable, available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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

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