Senior Frontend Engineer - Streaming

Job Description

Verkada is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join its stream team. The ideal candidate will be an industry expert in video streaming technologies with a passion for solving hard technological optimization problems. This role involves working with a dedicated team to design, implement, maintain, and improve Verkada’s video and audio streaming infrastructure, ensuring customers have the best streaming experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, maintain and improve Verkada’s video and audio streaming infrastructure
• Ensure customers have the best streaming experience for both live and historical footage
• Architect distributed real-time data connections between camera → cloud → browser
• Write clean, maintainable, testable code

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience of industry experience in video streaming
• Loves to solve hard technological optimization problems
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field
• Experience debugging frontend performance and network optimizations
• Experience with a JavaScript web application framework. Nice to have experience with React
• Solid understanding of modern JavaScript. Nice to have experience with TypeScript
• Experience with Unit and Integration tests
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment (< 500 people)
• Comfortable with SQL, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, AWS, Docker, etc.
• Works well with product and design teams

Perks and Benefits:

• 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