Senior Backend Engineer - Global, Scalable Systems

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Verkada Inc. is seeking experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Command team. You will help scale Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities for large enterprise deployments and design scalable control planes for our platform.

You will build distributed systems capable of handling traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices globally, and spin up new services in a microservices architecture. This role requires onsite work five days per week in the US.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Experience building scalable services for high-traffic environments.
• Proficiency in Python or Go and modern API design.
• Experience with relational databases and caching systems.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products.
• Build scalable distributed systems to handle traffic from devices worldwide.
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture.

Skills

Python

Go

Distributed systems

React

GRPC

API design

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Memcached

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Verkada Inc. is seeking experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Command team. You will help scale Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities for large enterprise deployments and design scalable control planes for our platform.

You will build distributed systems capable of handling traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices globally, and spin up new services in a microservices architecture. This role requires onsite work five days per week in the US.