Backend Engineer: Scalable Microservices & API Platform

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision, dental, nationwide coverage

HSA with employer contributions

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect people and places with an AI-powered platform for video security, access control, sensors, and more. We design scalable backend systems to handle data from hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.

The role focuses on building robust APIs, data models, and microservices to ensure high availability, performance, and security across Verkada’s platform. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential for delivering reliable product features.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems capable of handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed globally.
• Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components to support reliable product functionality across Verkada’s platform.
• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and deploy new backend services within a microservices architecture, including service design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, firmware, and frontend engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver backend systems that support customer-facing product features.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable software development.

Skills

Distributed systems

API design

Microservices

Backend performance

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/SE

Tools

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect people and places with an AI-powered platform for video security, access control, sensors, and more. We design scalable backend systems to handle data from hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.

The role focuses on building robust APIs, data models, and microservices to ensure high availability, performance, and security across Verkada’s platform. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is essential for delivering reliable product features.