[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer - Virtual Guard

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, AI-powered platform. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build and scale backend systems for AI-driven physical security products, focusing on low-latency systems that process multimodal data across cloud and edge environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend systems that power AI-driven detection, monitoring, and response workflows
• Develop scalable pipelines for ingesting and processing large volumes of video, audio, and sensor data in real time
• Architect event-driven systems that trigger automated actions such as alerts, verification, and escalation
• Build infrastructure that enables integration and deployment of large video and audio models into production systems
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new AI-powered capabilities, moving from concept to deployed features
• Optimize systems for low latency, high availability, and reliability across cloud and edge environments
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define and deliver end-to-end intelligent safety and automation systems
• Establish best practices for observability, testing, and continuous deployment in AI-integrated backend services

Skills

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Strong experience designing distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and scalable APIs
• Proven track record of building large-scale, data-intensive or AI-powered systems
• Experience working with real-time data pipelines and high-throughput systems
• Familiarity with deploying or integrating machine learning models, especially in video, audio, or multimodal domains
• Strong programming skills (e.g., Go, Python) and experience with modern cloud infrastructure
• Experience with databases and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Temporal, Postgres)
• Ability to quickly prototype, experiment, and iterate in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong ownership mindset with experience delivering reliable, production-grade systems end-to-end

Benefits

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits
• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

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