Backend Engineer – Scalable Systems & APIs (Equity)

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision & dental coverage

HSA & FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays & PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Healthy lunches

Job summary

Verkada is seeking an embedded Connectivity Team backend engineer to build scalable distributed systems serving 100s of thousands of devices worldwide. You will work with Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka and SQS, and deploy via Terraform and Kubernetes.

You will design and implement low-latency microservice architectures and APIs using Python and/or Go, in an agile environment with a focus on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• 1+ years backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or similar technical field of study.
• Experience developing and launching products.
• Working knowledge of Python and/or Go.
• Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, ability to read python server code a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
• 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

Go

REST APIs

Agile

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

SQS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Verkada is seeking an embedded Connectivity Team backend engineer to build scalable distributed systems serving 100s of thousands of devices worldwide. You will work with Redis, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka and SQS, and deploy via Terraform and Kubernetes.

You will design and implement low-latency microservice architectures and APIs using Python and/or Go, in an agile environment with a focus on security and reliability.