Senior Backend Engineer - Streaming
Verkada
San Mateo, CA United States
Full-Time
$5
RemoteSenior
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.
Weve got serious 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, Next47 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 platforms 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 thats alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. Were rapidly scaling this impact: 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 videopowering everything from 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 take on complex streaming challenges to deliver live and recorded video with unmatched speed, reliability, and security. By continually advancing our technology, we ensure that every framewhether live or months oldis always available instantly, seamlessly, and securely.
As a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will directly shape how millions of people rely on video every day to stay safe. Youll design backend systems that scale seamlessly in both usage and cost, while delivering industry-leading reliability and security. At the same time, youll help make our streaming infrastructure more efficient, interoperable, and future-proof.
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 bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)
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