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Verkada is a cloud physical security leader building an integrated, AI-powered platform used by thousands of organizations worldwide. The Core Command team is hiring experienced backend engineers to scale authentication, users, roles, and audit systems to support enterprise customers and hundreds of thousands of devices globally.

Skills

  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
  • 4+ years of relevant industry backend engineering experience
  • Experience building and scaling access systems for millions of users
  • Mastery of Python or Go
  • Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
  • Experience with key-value stores (Redis, Memcached)
  • Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching
  • Experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Familiarity with React (for working with frontend teams)
  • Experience with gRPC and API specifications
  • Willing and able to work onsite five days per week

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable control planes and core data primitives across Verkada products
  • Build and operate distributed systems handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices
  • Develop microservices and spin up new services in a microservices architecture
  • Implement robust access, user, role, and audit capabilities for large enterprises
  • Collaborate with product, frontend, and SRE teams to define APIs and service contracts
  • Optimize performance, reliability, and security of backend services

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related field

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision and dental coverage with premiums largely employer-covered
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Expanded mental health support and wellness/fitness benefits
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits/stipend
  • Flexible PTO, paid holidays and firmwide extended holidays
  • Professional development stipend
  • Daily healthy lunches and commuter benefits
  • Visa sponsorship and transfer support where applicable
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Full-time, onsite
DATE POSTED
December 3, 2025
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