Senior Backend Engineer - Device Platform

About the Role

The Device Platform team owns the backend between Verkada's cloud and the hardware we ship — device provisioning, OTA firmware rollout, and the licensing layer that turns devices into a business. Verkada already operates at millions of devices, and we're scaling the platform for the next order of magnitude — with the consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees our enterprise customers depend on.

Hitting that scale isn't just a technical problem. We're creating the IoT core that every product team across Verkada relies on to accelerate their roadmaps. We do as much cross-team alignment as deep systems design, and hold a high bar on both execution and communication with our peers.

We're five senior engineers today, with a new-grad joining us this summer — and we're hiring more as the platform's reach across Verkada grows. We're high-trust and inclusive: we give and receive feedback directly, we learn out loud, and we get better together because of it.

What You'll Do

Senior engineers on this team architect, ship, and bring others along. We learn and teach as we build.

• Design and lead major platform features end-to-end, such as the IoT core, the device-metrics platform, or the licensing ledger.
• Lead operational improvements that increase system robustness, reduce pager noise, and help the team learn from incidents when they occur.
• Teach as you ship — through design reviews, code reviews, crisp written communication, and direct mentorship.
• Listen to other Verkada teams, and help drive the platform's roadmap toward the company's biggest long-term bets.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of experience building backend services with consistency, latency, and uptime guarantees at scale.
• Fluency in at least one server language — Python or Go preferred; adjacent languages like Ruby or JavaScript (NodeJs) welcome.
• Skilled at listening to other engineering teams, shaping shared technical direction, and shipping changes they can build on without surprise.
• This role requires U.S. citizenship or permanent residency for FedRAMP compliance, and onsite presence five days per week.

Benefits

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet 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
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

Pay

Estimated annual pay range: $190,000—$275,000 USD (comprised of base compensation and commissions, if applicable). 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).