Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform

Verkada Inc.; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare programs

Vision and dental coverage

HSA with employer contributions

Mental health support

Paid parental leave

Flexible PTO

Lunch provided daily

Job summary

Verkada in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Staff-level Backend Engineer to own the licensing ledger and revenue recognition systems. You will drive end-to-end features, ensure auditability, and collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and Product.

You will lead architecture direction, enforce strong observability and SLOs, and mentor others while scaling a double-entry system as Verkada grows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability at scale.
• Depth in financial or transactional systems: ledgers, billing, revenue recognition, or payments.

Responsibilities

• Own the double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles licensing into daily revenue recognition.
• Design and lead the systems behind upmarket licensing: metering, billing, and packaging for enterpriseCustomers.
• Build reconciliation and controls for daily close and auditability for auditors traceability.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to translate revenue policies into precise system behavior.
• Lead major features end-to-end with design/code reviews and mentoring.
• Drive observability, SLOs, and incident learning with blameless culture.
• Shape roadmap as Verkada scales and matures.

Skills

Python

Go

Backend systems

Financial systems

Audit readiness

Cross-functional partner

Job description

San Mateo, CA United States

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 Core Licensing & Devices team owns the layer that turns Verkada's licenses into revenue: a double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles every license into daily revenue recognition. This is the system Finance closes the books on and the one auditors trace, so every entry has to be right. As Verkada scales past millions of devices and the business matures toward tighter reporting and audit requirements, this system moves from important to load-bearing.

We're a small, high-trust, high-autonomy team. We give and receive feedback directly, we learn out loud, and we hold a high bar on both execution and written communication.

What You’ll Do

• Own the double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles licensing into daily revenue recognition — its accounting model, its invariants, and its correctness guarantees under concurrency, retries, and failure.
• Design and lead the systems behind upmarket licensing: pay-as-you-go metering and billing, fixed-term commitments, and the packaging our enterprise customers buy.
• Build reconciliation and controls that let Finance close the books daily and let auditors trace any recognized dollar back to its source — with the auditability, immutability, and lineage a maturing company requires.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to turn revenue-recognition policy (ASC 606, deferred revenue, contract modifications, true-ups) into precise, testable system behavior.
• Lead major features end-to-end and bring others along — through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written docs, and direct mentorship.
• Drive operational rigor: strong observability, tight SLOs, low pager noise, and blameless learning when incidents occur.
• Help shape the platform’s roadmap toward the company's biggest long-term bets as Verkada scales and matures.

What You Bring

• 8+ years building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability guarantees at scale.
• Depth in financial or transactional systems: ledgers, double-entry accounting, billing, payments, or revenue recognition — you understand why idempotency, exactly-once semantics, immutability, and reconciliation matter, and you've built for them.
• Comfort working shoulder-to-shoulder with Finance and Accounting — or a track record of getting deep in an unfamiliar, high-stakes domain fast.
• Fluency in Python or Go; other backend languages can contribute to your experience, but the interviews will be conducted in one of the above.
• A track record of partnering with Finance, Accounting, or other non-engineering stakeholders, translating policy and ambiguity into systems they can rely on without surprise.
• At the Staff level: the ability to set technical direction across teams, shape shared architecture, and raise the bar on how the org designs and operates critical financial systems.
• Bonus: experience preparing financial systems for audit (SOX or external financial audit).

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
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional Information

• This role requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week.
• We want to build an inclusive team. Research consistently shows that candidates from underrepresented groups apply less often than is warranted — if this opportunity is a positive challenge for your career, please apply.

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).

$150,000 - $300,000 USD

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