Backend Engineering Intern: Build Global-Scale Systems

Verkada; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 4,727,000 - 5,586,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing stipend

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Lunch onsite

Intern-exclusive events

Cross-functional exposure

Lunch & Learns with executives

Job summary

Verkada is seeking software engineering interns to join our Backend Engineering team for a global rollout. You will work on scalable systems across the full software stack and contribute to the latest Verkada security platform.

The internship is on-site at Verkada’s HQ in San Mateo, CA, with opportunities to collaborate across teams and learn from senior engineers. Ideal candidates are pursuing CS degrees and will graduate by mid-2028, with experience in Python or Go and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a Bachelors or Masters in CS or similar technical field and graduating by June 2028.
• Prior internship experience developing and launching products.
• Familiar with Python or Golang, distributed systems, operating systems, AWS, Docker, etc.
• Comfortable working in an Agile team software development environment.
• Familiar with REST APIs and Linux servers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices.
• Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB).
• Work with Postgres relational databases.
• Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS.
• Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely.
• Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures.
• Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision.
• Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go.

Skills

Python

Golang

Distributed Systems

Operating Systems

AWS

Docker

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Graduating by 2028

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

SQS

Terraform

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Linux

Job description

Verkada is seeking software engineering interns to join our Backend Engineering team for a global rollout. You will work on scalable systems across the full software stack and contribute to the latest Verkada security platform.

The internship is on-site at Verkada’s HQ in San Mateo, CA, with opportunities to collaborate across teams and learn from senior engineers. Ideal candidates are pursuing CS degrees and will graduate by mid-2028, with experience in Python or Go and distributed systems.