Backend Engineer – Device Security

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 31,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized revenue, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next
47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It’s the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes.

We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

Verkada’s device security team has an important mission–empower the company to build the safest physical security products in the world. We are directly responsible for the development of important defensive security measures that run on all Verkada devices. We help maintain and expand security testing infrastructure that constantly evaluates devices for security vulnerabilities. And we help the company build stronger and more resilient products through our offensive security evaluation efforts.

If you love building scalable systems that have a huge impact, we want to hear from you!

• Design, build, maintain, and scale device security backend systems, such as those relating to authorization and logging.
• Build out and maintain security infrastructure, such as internal tooling to automate device security testing.
• Research & develop tooling that helps us secure the firmware supply chain.
• Help mentor other engineers, and learn everything you can about security.

• 8+ years developing go/Python microservices with AWS and participating in on-call
• Strong knowledge of scalable fault-tolerant backend systems design, including databases, queues, blob storage
• Working knowledge of at least some of these: temporal, k8s, docker, redis, dynamoDB, postgres, IAM, S3, kafka
• Strong understanding and experience in systems architecture
• BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering (preferred)
• Firmware or OS-level software development experience (preferred)
• Security experience, hacker mindset, or interest in learning more (preferred)

• 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

• 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.

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…