Senior Backend Engineer

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 access systems for millions of users globally.

Requirements

• Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• At least 4 years of relevant industry experience.
• 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.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week.

Benefits

• Employment visa sponsorship is offered for this role, including taking over sponsorship; the company will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa if an offer is made.
• Healthcare, medical, vision, and dental coverage, with employee premiums fully covered under at least one plan and family premiums covered at 80% under all plans.
• HSA employer contributions, FSA options, expanded mental health support, parental leave, and fertility benefits.
• Paid holidays, extended firmwide holidays, flexible PTO, and personal sick time.
• Professional development stipend, fertility stipend, and wellness and fitness benefits.
• Healthy lunches provided daily and commuter benefits.
• Onsite work five days per week.