Backend Engineer - Streaming

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 momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next
47 and more. Physical AI is a major technology shift, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can see our platform’s impact across various communities: a retailer using agentic AI to deter theft, a warehouse with AI-powered alerts for PPE on the floor, and a school receiving real-time threat alerts. Today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security and insights. At the core of our mission is video—powering real-time monitoring to historical playback for tens of thousands of organizations worldwide.

The Streaming team owns the full-stack infrastructure powering the video experience for over 1.4M Verkada cameras. We tackle complex streaming challenges to deliver live and recorded video with speed, reliability, and security. We ensure that every frame—live or months old—is available instantly, seamlessly, and securely.

As a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will shape how millions rely on video to stay safe. You’ll design backend systems that scale in usage and cost, while delivering reliability and security. You’ll help make our streaming infrastructure more efficient, interoperable, and future-proof.

• Design and evolve highly scalable, cloud-native services that power video and audio streaming for millions of devices.
• Architect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines that connect cameras, the cloud, and end users with low latency and high reliability.
• Build and operate a high-performance video transcoding and multiplexing service that is fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and scalable to massive workloads.
• Define and refine service-oriented architectures, APIs, and interfaces that enable streaming to scale across our platform.
• Develop clean, reliable, and testable backend code that performs under heavy load and ensures a flawless customer experience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver new video capabilities and experiences that raise the bar for the industry.
• Champion engineering excellence by driving performance, reliability, and best practices across the organization.

• 7+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
• 7+ years of experience designing and building large-scale, resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
• 6+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• 6+ years of experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• You bring a systems design mindset, able to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable, efficient solutions.
• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and security, with a track record of building services that excel in all three.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate creativity and sound judgment, and take ownership of problems end to end.
• Bonus: experience with IoT devices, real-time streaming technologies, or multimedia formats such as H.264/H.265, FFmpeg, or similar pipelines.

• Build the video streaming backbone of one of the fastest-growing companies in physical security.
• Tackle challenging problems at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time data, and multimedia.
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers and see your work make an immediate impact on products used by thousands of organizations worldwide.
• Join a company with proven product–market fit—startup speed and ownership with the stability of a scaling…