Senior Backend Engineer - Streaming

About the role

Verkada is the leading cloud-managed physical security platform, uniting hardware, software, and AI to deliver enterprise-scale security and insights. As a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming), your work will directly shape how millions of people rely on video every day to stay safe.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve highly scalable, cloud-native services that power video and audio streaming for millions of devices.
• Arcitect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines that connect cameras, the cloud, and end users with low latency and high reliability.
• Build and operate a high-performance video transcoding and multiplexing service that is fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and capable of scaling to massive workloads.
• Define and refine service-oriented architectures, APIs, and interfaces that enable streaming to scale seamlessly across our platform.
• Develop clean, reliable, and testable backend code that performs under heavy load and ensures a flawless customer experience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver new video capabilities and experiences that raise the bar for the industry.
• Champion engineering excellence by driving performance, reliability, and best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 4+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
• 4+ years experience designing and building large-scale, resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
• 3+ years experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• 3+ years experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.

Qualifications

• You bring a systems design mindset, able to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable, efficient solutions.
• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and security, and have a track record of building services that excel in all three.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate creativity and sound judgment, and take ownership of problems end to end.
• Bonus: you’ve worked with IoT devices, real-time streaming technologies, or multimedia formats such as H.264/H.265, FFmpeg, or similar pipelines.