Senior Backend Engineer
Verkada
Who We Are
We are looking for experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Command team. We are scaling out the Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities of Verkada's core products to service the largest organizations in the world.
You will:
- Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all Verkada products
- Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
- Spin up new services in a microservices architecture
Education and Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience in building and scaling access systems to millions of users around the world
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Mastery of at least one of Python or Go
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
- Experience with key-value storage systems (Redis, Memcached)
Nice to have:
- Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching (Redis, Memcached)
- Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with React
- Experience with GRPC and API specifications
Annual Pay Range
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)
Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer
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