Real-Time AI Backend Engineer for Security Alerts

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

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Onsite Bay Area

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Alarms team in the Bay Area to design and scale AI‑driven detection and response workflows. You’ll work on low‑latency services that coordinate alarm detection, verification, and dispatch across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product, design, frontend, and firmware teams to deliver end‑to‑end customer experiences, joining a small, high‑impact team that values ownership, speed, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event‑driven workflows.
• Experience with databases (e.g., Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g., Kafka, Redis).

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.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

API design

Tools

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Job description

Verkada is seeking a Backend Engineer for the Alarms team in the Bay Area to design and scale AI‑driven detection and response workflows. You’ll work on low‑latency services that coordinate alarm detection, verification, and dispatch across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with product, design, frontend, and firmware teams to deliver end‑to‑end customer experiences, joining a small, high‑impact team that values ownership, speed, and reliability.