Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time Video Streaming

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

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a backend engineer to join the Streaming team, powering live and recorded video for millions of devices. You’ll design scalable cloud-native services, build real-time data pipelines, and deliver high-performance transcoding and APIs.

You’ll collaborate across product, hardware, and infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, and security, with opportunities to work on IoT streaming technologies and multimedia formats. Visa sponsorship is available.

Qualifications

• 4+ years backend development in Go or Python.
• 4+ years designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
• 3+ years cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• 3+ years databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Systems design mindset; able to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve highly scalable, cloud-native services that power video and audio streaming for millions of devices.
• Architect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines that connect cameras, the cloud, and end users with low latency and high reliability.
• Build and operate a high-performance video transcoding and multiplexing service that is fault-tolerant and scalable.
• Define and refine service-oriented architectures, APIs, and interfaces for streaming across the platform.
• Develop clean, reliable backend code that performs under heavy load and ensures a flawless customer experience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver new video capabilities.
• Champion engineering excellence by driving performance, reliability, and best practices.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems design

Systems design mindset

Performance and reliability

Ownership in fast-paced environment

IoT/Streaming or multimedia

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

FFmpeg

Job description

Verkada is seeking a backend engineer to join the Streaming team, powering live and recorded video for millions of devices. You’ll design scalable cloud-native services, build real-time data pipelines, and deliver high-performance transcoding and APIs.

You’ll collaborate across product, hardware, and infrastructure, focusing on performance, reliability, and security, with opportunities to work on IoT streaming technologies and multimedia formats. Visa sponsorship is available.