Senior Backend Software Engineer - Viewing Station

at  Verkada

WHO WE ARE

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.
Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 16 offices across three continents, 1,900+ full-time employees and 25,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• A degree in Computer Science (BS/MS) or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
• Mastery of at least one common server programming language (e.g. Python or Go)
• Mastery of scalable backend design — Including databases, queues and blob storage
• Experience working in a fast-paced software development environment.

• Design, code, and test backend APIs to support the Viewing Station device.
• Scale our in-house custom MDM solution to support thousands of devices in the field.
• Become the in-house expert and owner of our backend services.
• Identify and resolve software defects and performance issues, ensuring that our services are running smoothly. Work closely with technical support and customers to resolve issues promptly.
• Build automations and create tests to maintain quality and streamline development.
• Continuously improve your craft as a software engineer by learning and leveraging the latest design patterns, principles and technologies.