Senior Backend Engineer – Virtual Guard

Verkada

Senior Backend Engineer building and scaling backend systems for AI-driven security products at Verkada. Collaborating on designing infrastructure for automated detection and response workflows.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeSan Mateo • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKafkaPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

backend engineeringdistributed systemsevent-driven architecturescalable APIsreal-time data pipelinesmachine learning modelsGoPythondatabasesstreaming systems

Soft Skills

collaborationprototypingexperimentationiterationownership mindset