Backend Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems capable of handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed globally.
• Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components to support reliable product functionality across Verkada's platform.
• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and deploy new backend services within a microservices architecture, including service design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, firmware, and frontend engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver backend systems that support customer-facing product features.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering best practices to ensure high-quality, maintainable software development.

What You Bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

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 plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Additional Information

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Annual Pay Range

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.

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)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range $140,000 - $140,000 USD