Backend Software Intern — Scalable Systems & Cloud (On-site)

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly housing stipend

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Lunch onsite

Job summary

Verkada is seeking software engineering interns to join our Backend Engineering team for an exciting internship on-site at our HQ in San Mateo, CA. You will work across the full software stack, building scalable systems and enabling our flagship software for global customers.

The role focuses on distributed systems, high-concurrency storage, and microservice architecture, with hands-on use of Python/Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a fast-paced startup culture.

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study and graduating by June 2028.
• Prior internship experience developing and launching products.
• Familiar with Python or Golang, Distributed Systems, AWS, Docker, etc.

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

Distributed Systems

Operating Systems

AWS

Docker

REST APIs

Linux servers

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

SQS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Verkada is seeking software engineering interns to join our Backend Engineering team for an exciting internship on-site at our HQ in San Mateo, CA. You will work across the full software stack, building scalable systems and enabling our flagship software for global customers.

The role focuses on distributed systems, high-concurrency storage, and microservice architecture, with hands-on use of Python/Go, Terraform, and Kubernetes in a fast-paced startup culture.