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.
About the Viewing Station Team
As a member of the Viewing Station engineering team, you’ll work alongside a small, dynamic team of iOS and backend engineers to build compelling user experiences for Verkada’s real-time video monitoring device that can stream up to 300 camera feeds with ultra-low latency video playback, customizable layouts, and configurable Smart Tiles.
You’ll solve complex and interesting technical challenges, ranging from developing backend APIs to scaling our custom MDM solution used to manage thousands of devices. Our team owns the entire tech stack including the backend, web frontend and tvOS, so there are opportunities to contribute and own entire features end to end.
Responsibilities
- 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.
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.
Nice to Have
- Interest or experience working with MDM solutions.
- Interest or experience in Web Frontend development (Typescript and/or React).
- Interest or experience in tvOS development.
Pay Disclosure
At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate’s skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range. This estimate is also just one component of Verkada’s total rewards package. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Estimated Annual Pay Range
$130,000—$280,000 USD
As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
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What We Do
Verkada is the world’s largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform, offering a seamless blend of tech and safety. With six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace systems, and intercoms — all integrated on one cloud platform, Verkada is designed for simplicity and scalability. Our real-time insights help organizations keep their spaces safe and comfortable while taking swift action to minimize security risks, workplace hassles, and costly inefficiencies.
Founded in 2016 and backed by over $460M in funding, we’ve grown fast, with 16 offices spread across four continents, 2,000+ employees, and 26,000+ customers in 85+ countries — including 82 of the Fortune 500.
Created by Stanford computer scientists and security experts, alongside Cisco Meraki’s co-founder and COO Hans Robertson, Verkada calls San Mateo, CA home. We also have offices in Salt Lake City, Tampa, Phoenix, Austin, London, Sydney, Taiwan, New York, Philadelphia, Toronto, Mexico City, Seattle, Tokyo, and Korea.
Why Work With Us
Verkada’s products start with safety – video security cameras, door-based access control and alarms, and extend to operations, environmental sensors, visitor and mailroom management.
All of our products can be accessed within one cloud ecosystem, bringing the intuitive and easy-to-use nature of consumer security products to the levels of scale
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