Senior Backend Engineer — AI Tools & Infra (Onsite)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Professional development stipend

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada Inc. is hiring a Backend Engineer to design and build tools that empower developers, sales, and support teams. The role is onsite at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA, focused on cloud infrastructure, tooling, and secure, private systems.

You’ll contribute to AI-powered features and open-source projects while advancing our platform’s reliability. Applicants should have a CS degree and hands-on experience with Python or Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Istio.

Qualifications

• Must have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or similar technical field of study.
• Experience and enthusiasm for learning about new infrastructure products, features, and strategies.
• Comfortable with working at the frontier of infrastructure and software development.
• Experience in Python and/or Go.
• Experience with one of the major cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Experience with Terraform is preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes is preferred.
• Experience with a service mesh such as Istio is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Doing common actions in the cloud rather than from developer machines.
• Improving handling of licenses.
• Separating the monolith support tool into smaller, more manageable tools.
• Improving the feature flags system.
• Building tools that use AI.
• Building tools to improve security and privacy.
• Contributing to open-source systems used by Verkada.

Skills

Python

Go

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Communication skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio service mesh

Education

Bachelor's / Master's / PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

Verkada Inc. is hiring a Backend Engineer to design and build tools that empower developers, sales, and support teams. The role is onsite at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA, focused on cloud infrastructure, tooling, and secure, private systems.

You’ll contribute to AI-powered features and open-source projects while advancing our platform’s reliability. Applicants should have a CS degree and hands-on experience with Python or Go, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Istio.