Verkada
Senior Software Engineer - Alarms
$130K–$280K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 23, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
- Visa sponsorship
- Verkada sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role and says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Designs and scales backend systems for real-time alarm detection, AI-powered threat response, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch.
What you'll do
- Build low-latency, high-availability services and AI-powered detection and response workflows.
- Develop distributed systems integrating internal products and third-party services.
- Own systems from design through production and promote testing, observability, and continuous deployment.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
- Strong programming skills; Go preferred.
- Solid grasp of distributed system design, API architecture, and event-driven workflows.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, databases, and scalable data systems.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines.
- Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization.
Pay
$130,000 — $280,000 USD annual on-target earnings (OTE)
Tools
Go, AWS, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Temporal, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring, including real-time threat identification and response.
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