Senior Backend Engineer - Intercom

About the Role

We are a small, dynamic team focused on building cloud-managed intercom systems. Intercom is our second newest major product line and is off to the best start of any product in Verkada’s history. Our intercom allows customers to receive calls from anywhere—at their desk or on their phone—with rich video and 2-way audio, and we have a lot more to build. We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy.

You’ll be working alongside a dynamic team of firmware, mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line. Join the fastest-growing frontier in our AI for the physical world portfolio: Intelligent Intercom Systems. The Intercom product line is a critical component of our intelligent building ecosystem, delivering rich, low-latency, multimodal interactions (video, audio, and access control integration) directly at the environment’s edge.

This is a "startup within a startup" opportunity where you will have significant ownership over the architectural direction of this burgeoning product line, which is already the most successful launch in Verkada history. We have ambitious plans to disrupt, including AI-driven visitor screening and remote environmental sensing. You will work alongside firmware, mobile, and frontend experts to drive this core element of our physical security layer.

Who You Are

• Excited by new products and startups
• Think about delivering best-in-class products and experiences—not features
• Can take a less-than-fully-fleshed-out product idea and drive it to completion
• BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable systems and design latency-sensitive applications for our Intercoms deployed around the world
• Drive technical direction and lead engineers on project execution
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design complex systems with simple and robust backend APIs
• Ship significant products with an ownership mentality, resolving problems that span beyond team boundaries
• Own backend systems end-to-end

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry backend software engineering experience
• 4+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer at a rapidly growing startup or innovative company
• Deep expertise with relational databases (Postgres experience a plus)
• Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang
• Experience with Kubernetes a plus

Benefits

• Healthcare programs tailored to personal health and financial well-being—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 Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax-saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy and fertility benefits
• 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

Pay

Estimated Annual Pay Range: $175,000—$300,000 USD (comprised of base compensation and commissions, if applicable). Additional forms of compensation may include sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs).

Verkada sponsors and takes over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to secure a visa.