Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Reliability

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & dental

HSA/FSA

Mental health support

Parental leave

Paid holidays & PTO

Fertility stipend

Wellness benefits

Daily lunches

Job summary

Verkada Inc. in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement robust business systems that keep our internal platform running at global scale.

You will build reliable, observable systems that support worldwide transactions, mentor junior engineers, and lead projects end-to-end while collaborating with product and security teams. This onsite role requires strong distributed systems expertise and a passion for reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with a focus on distributed systems at scale.
• Shipped customer facing products or internal tools in the past.
• Flexible and adaptive in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Passion for observability and reliability.
• In-depth expertise in distributed systems and data processing.
• AWS Cloud experience touching foundational blocks like: Kubernetes, Fargate, Lambda, Airflow, Athena, DynamoDB, VPC, and EC2.
• Bonus: Experience with Salesforce, NetSuite, or eCommerce platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement technical solutions that keep the internal Verkada engine running.
• Build and deliver improvements to systems that allow Verkada to seamlessly transact and ship all around the world.
• Improve systems observability and invest in reliability & correctness of data.
• Develop customer empathy to propose improvements to systems.
• Lead projects from ideation to release.
• Help and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Distributed systems

Observability

AWS Cloud

Kubernetes

DynamoDB

Data processing

eCommerce platforms

Job description

Verkada Inc. in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement robust business systems that keep our internal platform running at global scale.

You will build reliable, observable systems that support worldwide transactions, mentor junior engineers, and lead projects end-to-end while collaborating with product and security teams. This onsite role requires strong distributed systems expertise and a passion for reliability.