Senior Backend Engineer, Growth

Verkada; Foster City (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Dental & Vision insurance

HSA / FSA options

Parental leave

Paid holidays & flexible PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Commuter benefits

Healthy lunches provided

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Growth Engineering team in San Mateo, CA. You will build AI-powered products and backend systems that directly affect pipeline, revenue, and GTM effectiveness. The role emphasizes turning AI advances into reliable customer-ready features and collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Operations.

You will design APIs and data pipelines, own projects end-to-end, and help shape the team's technical direction while working on-site five days a week.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in software engineering with backend or full-stack production systems.
• Strong Python and API design skills with data modeling experience.
• Ability to own ambiguous projects from definition to launch.
• Good product judgment and stakeholder collaboration.
• Curiosity about applied AI and willingness to learn as tools evolve.
• Experience mentoring other engineers and elevating engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build applied AI products and backend systems impacting pipeline and revenue.
• Turn AI capabilities into reliable product experiences across workflows and integrations.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to identify high-value opportunities.
• Design and operate APIs, services, data pipelines powering growth systems.
• Own projects from prototype to production with reliable, secure software.
• Help shape technical direction and reusable patterns across teams.

Skills

Python

API design

Data modeling

Owns projects

Product judgment

Stakeholder collaboration

Applied AI curiosity

Mentoring engineers

Tools

AWS

Serverless

IaC

Queues

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We've got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform's impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that's alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We're rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Verkada's Growth Engineering team, you will build products and platforms that directly impact pipeline, revenue, and the effectiveness of our go-to-market teams.

A growing focus of the team is applied AI: turning new model capabilities into reliable products that help Sales and Marketing teams access trusted information, make better decisions, and execute complex workflows. You will build across agent workflows, enterprise integrations, evaluation systems, and backend infrastructure, while also contributing to the broader systems that power lead management, attribution, and sales and marketing automation.

This role is ideal for an engineer excited to apply advances in AI to real business problems. Success requires strong product and engineering judgment, a willingness to work directly with users, and the ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into reliable production software.

This role reports to our Engineering Manager and is based on-site at our headquarters in San Mateo, California, five days a week.

What You'll Do

• Build applied AI products and backend systems that directly impact pipeline, revenue, and the effectiveness of Verkada's go-to-market teams.
• Turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable product experiences, including agent workflows, tools, integrations, evaluation systems, and guardrails.
• Work directly with Sales, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities and translate ambiguous problems into shippable software.
• Design and operate APIs, services, workflows, and data pipelines that power lead management, attribution, automation, and other critical growth systems.
• Own projects from prototype through production, balancing speed with reliability, security, observability, and maintainability.
• Help shape the team's technical direction and establish reusable patterns across applied AI and growth engineering.

What You Bring

• 4 or more years of software engineering experience building production backend or full-stack systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend language, with experience designing APIs, services, and data models.
• A track record of independently owning ambiguous projects from problem definition through launch and iteration.
• Strong product judgment and the ability to work effectively with non-technical users and stakeholders.
• Experience building reliable systems that integrate with external APIs, internal platforms, or enterprise software.
• Curiosity about applied AI and a willingness to learn quickly as models, tools, and product patterns evolve.
• A track record of coaching other engineers, raising the team's technical bar, and leading changes to engineering practices, architecture, or ways of working.

Nice to Have

• Experience building production applications using LLMs, tool or function calling, AI agents, or multi-step AI workflows.
• Experience evaluating AI systems through test datasets, regression testing, production feedback, tracing, or behavioral analysis.
• Familiarity with context engineering, retrieval, prompt design, model selection, permissions, guardrails, or human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with AWS, serverless architectures, queues, scheduled workflows, or infrastructure as code.
• Experience with sales, B2B marketing, revenue, CRM, campaign, or other GTM-facing systems.

Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range: $220,000 - $240,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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