Senior Backend Engineer, Scalable Distributed Systems

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

HSA/FSA programs

Mental health support

Parental leave & fertility benefits

Paid holidays & flexible PTO

Fertility stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided

Job summary

Verkada is seeking experienced back-end engineers to join the Core Command team in San Mateo, CA. You will help scale Auth, Users, Roles, and Audit capabilities for Verkada’s platform across large enterprises.

Responsibilities include designing scalable control planes, building distributed systems, and spinning up new services in a microservices architecture. Requires onsite work and a CS/engineering degree with 4+ years of experience.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Experience building and scaling access systems to millions of users.
• Mastery of at least one of Python or Go.
• Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL).
• Experience with key-value storage systems (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching (Redis, Memcached).
• Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with React.
• Experience with GRPC and API specifications.
• Willing to work onsite five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all Verkada products.
• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture.

Skills

CS degree/engineer

4+ years experience

Python or Go

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Redis/Memcached

Kafka

AWS/GCP/Azure

React

gRPC & API specs

onsite 5 days

Education

Degree in CS/CE/SE

Tools

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Redis/Memcached

Kafka

AWS/GCP/Azure

React

gRPC

Job description

Verkada is seeking experienced back-end engineers to join the Core Command team in San Mateo, CA. You will help scale Auth, Users, Roles, and Audit capabilities for Verkada’s platform across large enterprises.

Responsibilities include designing scalable control planes, building distributed systems, and spinning up new services in a microservices architecture. Requires onsite work and a CS/engineering degree with 4+ years of experience.