Senior Frontend Engineer - Streaming

Verkada; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & dental coverage

HSA & FSA contributions

Mental health support

Parental leave & fertility benefits

Paid holidays & PTO

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Daily healthy lunches

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Verkada is seeking a Frontend Engineer (Video Streaming) to own the web frontend for live and recorded video across 1.4M cameras. You will ensure seamless playback, reliability, and security while shaping the streaming stack and delivering features like History Player Search.

You will collaborate with design/product, mentor peers, and drive frontend architecture decisions in a fast-growing security tech environment.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 4+ years of production web app experience.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and React.
• Strong HTML/CSS fundamentals and accessibility focus.
• Experience building scalable frontend architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of core frontend features across dashboard, video playback, and device management.
• Collaborate with designers and product managers for polished UX.
• Make architectural and performance decisions.
• Mentor junior engineers via code reviews and design discussions.
• Work with backend and infra teams to deliver scalable user experiences.
• Improve UI performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Frontend architecture

Performance

Accessibility

Design collaboration

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

Web technologies

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About The Role

The Streaming team owns the full-stack infrastructure powering the video experience for over 1.4M Verkada cameras. We take on complex streaming challenges to deliver live and recorded video with unmatched speed, reliability, and security. By continually advancing our technology, we ensure that every frame—whether live or months old is always available instantly, seamlessly, and securely.

As a Frontend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will directly shape how millions of people rely on video every day to stay safe. You’ll own the web frontend streaming experience, ensuring that videos play seamlessly with industry-leading reliability and security. At the same time, you’ll help simplify our streaming stack and ship features like History Player Search.

What You'll Do

• Lead development of core frontend features across our dashboard, video playback, and device management experiences.


• Partner with designers and product managers to bring intuitive, high-polish user experiences to life.


• Drive technical decisions around architecture, frameworks, performance, and best practices.


• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.


• Collaborate backend, infrastructure and cross-functional teams e.g. design/product to deliver efficient, scalable and delightful user experiences.


• Continuously improve UI performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field.


• 4+ years of experience building and shipping production web applications.


• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React.


• Solid understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, DOM APIs, browser performance, accessibility).


• Experience building scalable, maintainable frontend architectures.


• Passion for great design, usability, and delivering customer-delighting products.


• Bonus: experience with video streaming, codecs like H.264, real-time data, or playback technologies like WebCodecs.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans


• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage


• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options


• Expanded mental health support


• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits


• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time


• Professional development stipend


• Wellness/fitness benefits


• Healthy lunches provided daily


• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$175,000—$275,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.

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