About the Role

We are building a new, critical safety product designed to protect people in real-world emergencies. This is a rare opportunity to shape a category-defining product in a large, stagnant market ready for innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Play a pivotal role in re-defining this critical product line
• Build user-facing experiences and core backend services that power real-time alerts, notifications, and integrations with external monitoring services.
• Ensure reliability with automated hardware-in-the-loop testing systems.

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years building production systems
• Strong backend experience (Go preferred)
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Comfortable working across the stack: backend, frontend, and device
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and APIs
• Startup mindset; able to move fast and iterate with product teams

 Bonus Points

• Experience with embedded systems or IoT
• Familiarity with HIL testing
• Experience with real-time or safety-critical systems

Culture and Values

• Self-motivated problem solver: At Verkada, you will tackle large, complex problems with no clear answers. 
• Teach and learn: You will learn new technologies while being entrusted with the technical ownership of major systems, and we hope to learn something from you in turn. 
• Growth mindset: As a small, fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth, and we want you to grow with us!

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
• 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.

What You'll Do

• Design and build distributed backend systems that power AI-driven detection, monitoring, and response workflows
• Develop scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing large volumes of video, audio, and sensor data in real time
• Architect event-driven systems that trigger automated actions such as alerts, verification, and escalation
• Build infrastructure that enables integration and deployment of large video and audio models into production systems
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new AI-powered capabilities, moving from concept to deployed features
• Optimize systems for low latency, high availability, and reliability across cloud and edge environments
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define and deliver end-to-end intelligent safety and automation systems
• Establish best practices for observability, testing, and continuous deployment in AI-integrated backend services

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and scalable APIs
• Proven track record of building large-scale, data-intensive or AI-powered systems
• Experience working with real-time data pipelines and high-throughput systems
• Familiarity with deploying or integrating machine learning models, especially in video, audio, or multimodal domains
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Go, Python) and experience with modern cloud infrastructure
• Experience with databases and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Temporal, Postgres)
• Ability to quickly prototype, experiment, and iterate in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong ownership mindset with experience delivering reliable, production-grade systems end-to-end

Culture and Values

• Self-motivated problem solver: At Verkada, you will tackle large, complex problems with no clear answers. 
• Teach and learn: You will learn new technologies while being entrusted with the technical ownership of major systems, and we hope to learn something from you in turn. 
• Growth mindset: As a small, fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth, and we want you to grow with us!

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.

About the Team

About the Role

Verkada’s Alarms team builds the intelligent systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats—whether it's a break-in or suspicious activity caught on video. We combine intrusion sensors, cameras, and AI to create a fast, reliable, and modern security experience.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows. These systems power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch—all in real time. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.

What You'll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• 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
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
• Interest in building AI-integrated, real-time systems
• Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization

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.

About the Role

What You'll Do

• Design and implement automated test frameworks for embedded alarm and safety products.
• Build hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing systems that validate real devices under realistic operating conditions.
• Develop tests that verify both individual components (sensors, controllers, communication modules) and end-to-end system behavior.
• Write software to coordinate devices, test rigs, and cloud APIs for automated system validation.
• Simulate real-world scenarios such as sensor faults, communication failures, power interruptions, and alarm events.
• Build tooling and infrastructure that allow tests to run continuously in automated environments.
• Work closely with firmware, hardware, and backend teams to debug issues and improve test coverage.

What You Bring

• Engineering background in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience working with embedded systems or hardware devices.
• Basic familiarity with embedded Linux environments.
• Ability to write software to automate tests and coordinate hardware devices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to system reliability.

Bonus Points

• Experience with life safety or mission-critical regulatory standards (UL, ULC, etc.).
• Prior experience implementing Machine Learning or AI tools to optimize QA workflows.

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
• 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.