Verkada's Alarms team builds intelligent systems to detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats, combining intrusion sensors, cameras, and AI for a fast, reliable, and modern security experience. The Staff Backend Engineer will design and scale AI-driven detection and response workflows that power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch in real time.
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
- Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
Responsibilities
- 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
Other
- As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows.
- You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.
- Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production
- Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
- 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.
