Senior Backend Engineer - IoT Platform & Scale Lead

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision and dental coverage

Mental health support

Parental leave policy

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Verkada is seeking senior engineers for the Device Platform team that bridges Verkada's cloud and hardware, handling device provisioning, OTA firmware, and licensing. We scale to millions of devices with enterprise reliability.

The role emphasizes architecture, mentorship, cross-team collaboration, and strong communication as we build the IoT core and licensing ledger across the platform.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building backend services with consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees at scale.
• Skilled at listening to other engineering teams, shaping shared technical direction, and shipping changes they can build on without surprise.
• This role requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week.
• We want to build an inclusive team. Research consistently shows that candidates from underrepresented groups apply less often than is warranted — if this opportunity is a positive challenge for your career, please apply.

Responsibilities

• Senior engineers on this team architect, ship, and bring others along. We learn and teach as we build.
• Design and lead major platform features end-to-end, such as the IoT core, the device-metrics platform, or the licensing ledger.
• Lead operational improvements that increase system robustness, reduce pager noise, and help the team learn from incidents when they occur.
• Teach as you ship — through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written communication, and direct mentorship.
• Listen to other Verkada teams, and help drive the platform's roadmap toward the company's biggest long-term bets.

Skills

Backend development

System design

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Verkada is seeking senior engineers for the Device Platform team that bridges Verkada's cloud and hardware, handling device provisioning, OTA firmware, and licensing. We scale to millions of devices with enterprise reliability.

The role emphasizes architecture, mentorship, cross-team collaboration, and strong communication as we build the IoT core and licensing ledger across the platform.