Backend Engineer - Connectivity
verkada • San Mateo, CA United States
No Relocation
Posted: July 24, 2026
Job Description
About the Connectivity Team:
We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company:
- Verkada Gateways – Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world
- Verkada Security Trailers – Rapid-deploy mobile security units
- Quality Sensors – Environmental intelligence at scale
We’re a small, vertically integrated team. That means we touch everything:
- Embedded firmware
- Cellular modems & SIMs
- Linux networking
- Cloud backend services
- Command Frontend
What You'll Do
- Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world
- Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
- Work with Postgres relational databases
- Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS
- Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes
- Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely
- Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures
- Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision
- Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go
What You Bring
- 1+ years backend engineering experience in a production environment
- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
- Experience developing and launching products
- Working knowledge of Python and/or Go
- Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment
- Familiarity with REST APIs, ability to read python server code a plus
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
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!
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.
Additional Content
About the Connectivity Team:
We’re the Connectivity Team at Verkada — and we own some of the most strategically critical products in the company:
- Verkada Gateways – Bringing cameras, access control, and sensors online anywhere in the world
- Verkada Security Trailers – Rapid-deploy mobile security units
- Quality Sensors – Environmental intelligence at scale
We’re a small, vertically integrated team. That means we touch everything:
- Embedded firmware
- Cellular modems & SIMs
- Linux networking
- Cloud backend services
- Command Frontend
What You'll Do
- Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from 100s of thousands of devices deployed around the world
- Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
- Work with Postgres relational databases
- Work with logging and message passing technologies like Kafka and SQS
- Deploy services via Terraform and Kubernetes
- Develop large scale systems to interact with and configure products remotely
- Define and improve low-latency, high-throughput, high-reliability microservice architectures
- Design and develop features incorporating cutting edge computer vision
- Design clean APIs and implement them using Python and/or Go
What You Bring
- 1+ years backend engineering experience in a production environment
- BS/MS in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
- Experience developing and launching products
- Working knowledge of Python and/or Go
- Comfortable working in an agile team software development environment
- Familiarity with REST APIs, ability to read python server code a plus
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
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!
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.