Staff Backend Software Engineer - Viewing Station

 

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.

 

• 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.