Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Security

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & dental coverage

HSA with employer contributions

Fertility benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

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

You will work across hardware and cloud platforms with a small, high-impact team to keep people and property safe. You’ll design low-latency backend services, implement event-driven workflows, and integrate internal products with third-party services while maintaining production-grade quality through testing and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• 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

Distributed systems

API design

AWS

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

Team collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

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

You will work across hardware and cloud platforms with a small, high-impact team to keep people and property safe. You’ll design low-latency backend services, implement event-driven workflows, and integrate internal products with third-party services while maintaining production-grade quality through testing and observability.