Verkada
Senior Backend Engineer, Growth
$220K–$240K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2024
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be independently authorized to work in the U.S.; Verkada is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.
About the job
Build applied AI products and backend systems for Verkada’s growth and go-to-market teams, including systems that support pipeline, revenue, lead management, attribution, and automation.
What you'll do
- Build reliable AI products, agent workflows, integrations, evaluation systems, and guardrails.
- Design and operate APIs, services, workflows, and data pipelines for growth systems.
- Work with Sales, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders; own projects from prototype through production and help shape technical direction.
What they ask for
- 4 or more years of software engineering experience building production backend or full-stack systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python or a similar backend language, with experience designing APIs, services, and data models.
- Experience independently owning ambiguous projects from problem definition through launch and iteration.
- Experience integrating reliable systems with external APIs, internal platforms, or enterprise software.
Nice to have
- Experience building production applications with LLMs, tool or function calling, AI agents, or multi-step AI workflows.
- Experience evaluating AI systems or familiarity with AWS, serverless architectures, queues, scheduled workflows, infrastructure as code, or GTM-facing systems.
Pay
$220,000 — $240,000 USD (annual total pay, OTE)
Tools
Python, LLMs, AWS, serverless architectures, queues, scheduled workflows, infrastructure as code
AI focus
Apply AI to business problems by building agent workflows, integrations, evaluation systems, and guardrails that help Sales and Marketing access trusted information, make decisions, and execute workflows.
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