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Verkada’s Alarms team builds the intelligent systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats—whether it's a break-in or suspicious activity caught on video. We combine intrusion sensors, cameras, and AI to create a fast, reliable, and modern security experience. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows. These systems power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch—all in real time. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.
Job Responsibility:
Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production
Champion best practices in testing, observability, and continuous deployment
Requirements:
5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment
Strong programming skills—Go preferred
Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis)
Track record of delivering robust, maintainable software in fast-paced teams
Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
Nice to have:
Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
Interest in building AI-integrated, real-time systems
Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization
What we offer:
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