Verkada
Senior Backend Engineer - Alerts and Operations
$130K–$280K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 10, 2023
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Back End Engineer.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or similar field.
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role and says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa if it makes an offer.
About the job
Build and operate large-scale backend systems for real-time events, alerts, notifications, and customer integrations across Verkada’s security platform.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain scalable event-processing, alert-management, and notification-delivery systems; own them from design through ongoing optimization.
- Lead technical design and architectural decisions, and develop backend infrastructure integrated with AI capabilities.
- Mentor engineers, contribute to the public API, and collaborate across teams to deliver products.
What they ask for
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
- 5+ years of professional back-end engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in Go, Python, Java, or C++, plus experience with relational and non-relational databases.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message streaming, cloud environments, and container orchestration; must work onsite five days per week.
Nice to have
- Experience at a rapidly growing startup or innovative company.
Pay
$130,000 — $280,000 USD annual on-target earnings (OTE), comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).
Tools
Go, Python, Java, C++, Postgres, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB
AI focus
Drive development of backend infrastructure integrated with AI capabilities; the team is exploring AI to help customers use products more efficiently and respond more effectively to events.
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