Staff Backend Engineer - Alarms

The Role

Verkada’s Alarms team builds the intelligent systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats—whether it's a break-in or suspicious activity caught on video. We combine intrusion sensors, cameras, and AI to create a fast, reliable, and modern security experience.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you’ll play a key role in designing and scaling our AI-driven detection and response workflows. These systems power automated threat identification, customer notifications, video verification, and emergency dispatch—all in real time. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team working across Verkada’s hardware and cloud platforms to keep people and property safe.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services that orchestrate alarm detection and response
• Create flexible and extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
• Build distributed systems that integrate internal products and third-party services (e.g., notifications, transcription, dispatch)
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, frontend, and firmware engineers to shape end-to-end customer experiences
• Operate with autonomy and take ownership of systems from design through production
• Champion best practices in testing, observability, and continuous deployment

What We’re Looking 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, preferably AWS
• Background working with databases (e.g. Postgres) and scalable data systems (e.g. Kafka, Redis)
• Track record of delivering robust, maintainable software in fast-paced teams

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Temporal or other workflow engines
• Interest in building AI-integrated, real-time systems
• Experience with Kubernetes, monitoring tools, and performance optimization

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