Senior Backend Engineer: AI‑Driven Security & Edge Systems

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage

Health Saving Account (HSA)

Expanded mental health support

Paid parental leave policy

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada, located in San Mateo, CA, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build distributed backend systems for AI-driven physical security products. The role involves working with multimodal data across the cloud and edge environments and ensuring systems operate reliably at scale. Candidates should have over 5 years of backend engineering experience and a strong ownership mindset. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits including healthcare, parental leave, and wellness perks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and scalable APIs.
• Proven track record of building large-scale, data-intensive or AI-powered systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend systems that power AI-driven detection and monitoring workflows.
• Develop scalable pipelines for processing large volumes of video, audio, and sensor data.
• Architect event-driven systems that trigger automated actions such as alerts and verification.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Designing distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Scalable APIs

Real-time data pipelines

Programming skills in Go or Python

Databases and streaming systems

Job description

Verkada, located in San Mateo, CA, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build distributed backend systems for AI-driven physical security products. The role involves working with multimodal data across the cloud and edge environments and ensuring systems operate reliably at scale. Candidates should have over 5 years of backend engineering experience and a strong ownership mindset. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits including healthcare, parental leave, and wellness perks.