Verkada
Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform
$150K–$300K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years building backend services.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance.
About the job
Leads development of Verkada’s licensing and revenue platform, including its accounting ledger, billing systems, and audit controls.
What you'll do
- Own the double-entry ledger and ensure accurate revenue recognition under concurrency, retries, and failures.
- Design licensing metering, billing, and enterprise packaging; build reconciliation and audit controls.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Revenue, and Product to implement revenue-recognition policy and lead technical direction, delivery, and operations.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability guarantees at scale.
- Depth in financial or transactional systems such as ledgers, double-entry accounting, billing, payments, or revenue recognition.
- Fluency in Python or Go.
- Ability to set technical direction across teams and translate stakeholder policy and ambiguity into dependable systems.
Nice to have
- Experience preparing financial systems for audit (SOX or external financial audit).
Pay
$150,000 — $300,000 USD (annual OTE; base compensation and commissions, if applicable)
Tools
Python, Go, ASC 606, SOX
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