Senior Backend Engineer - Alerts and Operations

Senior Backend Engineer - Alerts and Operations

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 31,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, 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 Team

Alerts are an important part of the Verkada ecosystem and our customers rely on alert notifications to stay on top of live events such as persons of interest entering buildings, if a door was forced open after hours or simply knowing when to let the delivery person in. The Alerts and Operations team is responsible for building and maintaining the end-to-end systems for Events, Alerts and Notifications, processing upwards of 500 million events weekly from over a million devices worldwide.

Our systems process real-time events from Verkada's global device fleet, delivering intelligent, actionable alerts through multiple channels including email, SMS, push notifications, and webhooks.

In 2025, we launched Operations, a suite of features designed for customers monitoring critical infrastructure with dedicated security teams, starting with enhanced collaboration tools and expanding integration capabilities.

We're actively exploring how AI can help customers use our products more efficiently and respond more effectively to events, while continuing to improve the core reliability and intelligence of our alerting systems.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain scalable backend systems that process hundreds of millions of events, alerts and notifications weekly from security devices deployed around the world.
• Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions for new features across our event processing, alert rule management, and notification delivery services.
• Own complex systems end-to-end, from initial design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
• Drive the development of backend infrastructure integrated with AI capabilities.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to Verkada's public API that customers use for integrations with their existing security and operations systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering leaders, and teams across the organization to define and deliver high-impact products.

What You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or similar field.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Back End Engineer with a track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally at a rapidly growing start up or innovative company.
• Deep expertise in Go, Python, Java, or C++ with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and working with both relational (Postgres, MySQL) and non-relational databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch).
• Track record of leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, and delivering complex systems from concept to production.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message streaming platforms (Kafka, SQS).
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate team technical standards.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.

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
• Fertility 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

$130,000 - $280,000 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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