Backend Engineer, Alarms

About this role

Verkada's Alarms team is hiring a Backend Engineer to design and scale AI-driven systems that detect, verify, and respond to real-world security threats in real time. You'll build low-latency, high-availability services that orchestrate intrusion detection, video monitoring, and emergency dispatch workflows across Verkada's cloud and hardware platforms.

What you'll do

• Design and build low-latency, high-availability backend services for alarm detection and response orchestration
• Develop flexible, extensible AI-powered workflows for intrusion and video monitoring use cases
• Build distributed systems integrating internal products and third-party services like notifications and dispatch
• Collaborate with product, design, frontend, and firmware teams on end-to-end customer experiences
• Work on systems that power real-time threat identification, customer notifications, and emergency response

What they're looking for

• Backend engineering (1-3 years production experience)
• Go programming
• Distributed system design and API architecture
• Event-driven workflows
• Postgres and database design
• Scalable data systems (Kafka, Redis)
• Temporal or workflow engines (bonus)
• AI-based systems with real-time video/audio reasoning (bonus)

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO plus 11 company-paid holidays
• Wellness allowance
• Commuter benefits
• Daily healthy lunches and dinners
• Generous paid parental leave and fertility benefits