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Staff Backend Software Engineer - Viewing Station

Verkada

Software Engineering

San Mateo, CA, USA

Posted on Oct 24, 2024

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Who We Are

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.

Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.

Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

About the Viewing Station Team

As a member of the Viewing Station engineering team, you’ll work alongside a small, dynamic team of iOS and backend engineers to build compelling user experiences for Verkada’s real-time video monitoring device that can stream up to 300 camera feeds with ultra-low latency video playback, customizable layouts, and configurable Smart Tiles.

You’ll solve complex and interesting technical challenges, ranging from developing backend APIs to scaling our custom MDM solution used to manage thousands of devices. Our team owns the entire tech stack including the backend, web frontend and tvOS, so there are opportunities to contribute and own entire features end to end.

Responsibilities

Design, code, and test backend APIs to support the Viewing Station device.
Scale our in-house custom MDM solution to support thousands of devices in the field.
Become the in-house expert and owner of our backend services.
Identify and resolve software defects and performance issues, ensuring that our services are running smoothly. Work closely with technical support and customers to resolve issues promptly.
Build automations and create tests to maintain quality and streamline development.
Continuously improve your craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technologies.

Requirements

5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
A degree in Computer Science (BS/MS) or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
Mastery of at least one common server programming language (e.g. Python or Go)
Mastery of scalable backend design — Including databases, queues and blob storage
Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment.

Nice to Have

Interest or experience working with MDM solutions.
Interest or experience in Web Frontend development (Typescript and/or React).
Interest or experience in tvOS development.

Pay Disclosure

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. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. 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).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$130,000—$280,000 USD

Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer

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