Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Auth & Microservices

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs fully covered for employees

Flexible PTO

Paid parental leave

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Job summary

A leading security technology firm located in San Mateo, CA, is seeking an experienced back-end engineer to join their Core Command team. The role involves designing scalable systems and enhancing user capabilities for their security products. Ideal candidates should possess a degree in a related field, have at least 4 years of industry experience, and be proficient in Python or Go, along with experience in databases and cloud services. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 - $220,000 annually with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience with distributed queueing and caching
• Must be willing to work onsite five days a week.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all products.
• Build scalable distributed systems for high traffic.
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture.

Skills

Experience in building and scaling access systems

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Mastery of Python or Go

Experience with relational databases

Experience with cloud service providers

Experience with React

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering

Tools

Postgres

MySQL

Redis

Memcached

Kafka

AWS

GCP

Azure

GRPC

Job description

A leading security technology firm located in San Mateo, CA, is seeking an experienced back-end engineer to join their Core Command team. The role involves designing scalable systems and enhancing user capabilities for their security products. Ideal candidates should possess a degree in a related field, have at least 4 years of industry experience, and be proficient in Python or Go, along with experience in databases and cloud services. The position offers a competitive salary of $160,000 - $220,000 annually with comprehensive benefits.