Senior Backend Engineer - Virtual Guard

What You'll Do

• 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

What You Will Bring

• 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

Culture and Values

• Self-motivated problem solver: At Verkada, you will tackle large, complex problems with no clear answers. 


• Teach and learn: You will learn new technologies while being entrusted with the technical ownership of major systems, and we hope to learn something from you in turn. 


• Growth mindset: As a small, fast-growing startup, every day brings new challenges and opportunities for growth, and we want you to grow with us!

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• 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

Additional Information

• 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.