Senior Backend Software Engineer - Workplace Products

About the Role

We are a small, dynamic team and are looking for software engineers who thrive in a high growth environment working alongside teammates to launch products and features that will be utilized by customers across the globe. As part of the Software Engineering team, you'll have ownership of one or more projects on various product or platform facing teams. You will work across the full software stack and collaborate cross functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada's flagship software, enabling our best-in-class security systems.

We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You'll be working alongside a dynamic team of mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line.

Who You Are

• Excited by new products and startups
• You think about delivering best-in-class products and experiences - not features
• You can take a less-than-fully-fleshed-out product idea and drive it to completion
• BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science

What You Bring

• 6+ years of industry backend software engineering experience
• 2+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer at a rapidly growing start up or innovative company.
• Experience driving technical direction and leading teams on project execution.
• Architect scalable systems and design latency sensitive applications.
• Experience collaborating cross functionally to design complex systems with simple and robust backend APIs
• History of shipping out significant products. We are looking for someone who can own backend systems end-to-end.
• Ownership mentality, resolving problems that span beyond team boundaries
• Deep expertise with relational databases. Postgres experience a plus
• Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang
• Experience with Kubernetes a plus

Bonus point

• Experience building messaging systems, with a proven track record of designing and maintaining highly available, distributed messaging architectures (e.g., mass notification systems), and a strong understanding of the SMS ecosystem, including throughput management, carrier delivery nuances, and global compliance.

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

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

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 $130,000—$260,000 USD