Senior Backend Engineer
Full-time
Verkada
Responsibilities
- Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products.
- Build distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
- Create new services within a microservices architecture.
- Scale Auth, Users, Roles, and Audit capabilities for core products.
Requirements
- Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience building and scaling access systems for millions of users worldwide.
- Mastery of at least one of Python or Go.
- Experience with relational databases including Postgres and MySQL.
- Experience with key-value storage and caching systems including Redis and Memcached.
- Experience with distributed queueing using Kafka.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with React, gRPC, and API specifications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to work onsite five days per week.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
- Nationwide medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- Health Savings Account with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account options.
- Expanded mental health support.
- Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
- Paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
- Professional development stipend.
- Fertility stipend.
- Wellness and fitness benefits.
- Healthy lunches provided daily.
- Commuter benefits.
- Employment visa sponsorship and sponsorship takeover may be available.
- Onsite work five days per week.
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