Backend Engineer - Connectivity

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 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, 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.

We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company:

• Verkada Gateways – Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world

• Verkada Security Trailers – Rapid-deploy mobile security units

• Quality Sensors – Environmental intelligence at scale

We’re a small, vertically integrated team. That means we touch everything:

• Embedded firmware

• Cellular modems & SIMs

• Linux networking

• Cloud backend services

• Command Frontend

• Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world

• Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)

• Work with Postgres relational databases

• Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS

• Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes

• Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely

• Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures

• Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision

• Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go

What You Bring

• 1+ years backend engineering experience in a production environment

• BS/MS in Computer Science or similar technical field of study

• Experience developing and launching products

• Working knowledge of Python and/or Go

• Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment

• Familiarity with REST APIs, ability to read python server code a plus

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