Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Security

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo; Remote; PHP 8,166,000 - 17,588,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Vision/Dental

HSA/FSA

Mental health

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Professional development

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale AI-driven alarm systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world threats. You will work across hardware and cloud platforms on a small, high-impact team, delivering low-latency services for real-time security workflows.

You’ll join the Alarms team, building end-to-end experiences with product, design, frontend, and firmware colleagues, while owning systems from design to production in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
• Strong programming skills — Go preferred
• Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
• Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis)
• Track record of delivering robust, maintainable software in fast-paced teams

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
• Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
• Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
• Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production
• Champion best practices in testing, observability, and continuous deployment

Skills

Backend experience

Go

Distributed systems

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Maintaining software

Tools

Temporal

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

Verkada is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and scale AI-driven alarm systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world threats. You will work across hardware and cloud platforms on a small, high-impact team, delivering low-latency services for real-time security workflows.

You’ll join the Alarms team, building end-to-end experiences with product, design, frontend, and firmware colleagues, while owning systems from design to production in a fast-paced environment.