Senior Backend Engineer - AI Real-Time Security

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

HSA with employer contributions

FSA options

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Fertility Stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Alarms team and help design and scale AI-driven detection and response workflows for real-time security applications.

In this role, you will build low-latency services, craft event-driven architectures, and collaborate with product, frontend, and firmware colleagues to deliver robust, secure experiences across hardware and cloud platforms. Expect ownership, autonomy, and a focus on reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• Go programming skills preferred.
• Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS.
• Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis).
• Track record of delivering robust, maintainable software in fast-paced teams.

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
• Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production
• Champion best practices in testing, observability, and continuous deployment

Skills

Backend engineering

Go programming

Distributed systems

API design

AWS

Postgres

Kafka

Redis

Tools

Temporal

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

Verkada is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Alarms team and help design and scale AI-driven detection and response workflows for real-time security applications.

In this role, you will build low-latency services, craft event-driven architectures, and collaborate with product, frontend, and firmware colleagues to deliver robust, secure experiences across hardware and cloud platforms. Expect ownership, autonomy, and a focus on reliability.