Verkada
Senior Backend Engineer
$160K–$260K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role; if an offer is made, it will make every reasonable effort to get a visa.
About the job
Build and scale backend services and distributed systems for Verkada’s core authentication, user, role, and audit capabilities.
What you'll do
- Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products.
- Build distributed systems that handle high traffic from devices deployed worldwide.
- Launch new services within a microservices architecture.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering.
- Experience building and scaling access systems to millions of users worldwide.
- Mastery of at least one of Python or Go.
- Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week.
Pay
$160,000 — $260,000 USD annual OTE (comprised of base compensation and commissions, if applicable)
Tools
Python, Go, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Memcached, Kafka, AWS
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