Verkada
Staff Backend Engineer - Streaming
$130K–$300K
San Mateo, CA United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Nov 10, 2023
- Location
- San Mateo, CA United States
San Mateo, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years in backend development and distributed systems; 6+ years in cloud infrastructure, containerization, deployment automation, databases, queues, and blob storage.
- Visa sponsorship
- The company sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role.
About the job
Designs and operates scalable backend systems and real-time pipelines for video and audio streaming across Verkada’s camera platform.
What you'll do
- Design cloud-native streaming services and distributed pipelines that connect cameras, cloud systems, and end users.
- Build and operate fault-tolerant, cost-efficient video transcoding and multiplexing services.
- Develop streaming architectures, APIs, and reliable backend code; collaborate across product, hardware, and infrastructure teams.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
- 7+ years designing and building large-scale, resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
- 6+ years of experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
- 6+ years of experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.
Nice to have
- Experience with IoT devices, real-time streaming technologies, or multimedia formats such as H.264/H.265, FFmpeg, or similar pipelines.
Pay
$130,000 — $300,000 USD annual OTE (base compensation and commissions, if applicable)
Tools
Go, Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, H.264/H.265, FFmpeg
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