Senior Backend Engineer - Virtual Guard

Job Description

Verkada is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join its Virtual Guard engineering team. This role involves building user experiences for a major new product category, focusing on keeping customers protected in critical situations. The engineer will work within a small, dynamic team, enjoying autonomy and significant impact on the Virtual Guard product direction.Role involves:

• Building, testing, and operating highly scalable, available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Designing and building a flexible workflow orchestration engine.
• Designing and building monitoring capabilities for real-time incident updates.
• Innovating with cloud-native tools and AI-driven automation.
• Collaborating with product managers, UX designers, and front-end engineers.
• Delivering quality code through best practices in testing 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.
• Advanced software architecture and API design experience (recommended).
• Good understanding of at least one relational database technology (recommended).
• Experience with technologies like Postgres, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and embedded systems (recommended).

Verkada offers:

• Generous company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 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.