Senior Backend Engineer - Streaming

Verkada
$130,000-$280,000 USD
United States, California, San Mateo
406 East 3rd Avenue (Show on map)
Jan 19, 2025
Who We Are Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines - video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms - integrated with a single cloud-based software platform. Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies. Founded in 2016 with more than $460M in funding raised to date, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 28,000+ customers across 70+ countries. Overview Our streaming team features strong software engineering talent with a lot of expertise in video streaming. Video streaming is obviously at the core of what we do as a video security company. We invest heavily in our streaming experience to ensure that we are providing our customers with the best streaming experience possible for both live video and historical video. Responsibilities: Design, implement, maintain and improve Verkada's video and audio streaming infrastructure. Ensure customers have the best streaming experience for both live and historical footage. Architect distributed real-time data connections between camera cloud user. Build a high-performance, highly-available, highly-scalable multiplexing video transcoding service. Define and improve service-oriented architectures. Write clean, maintainable, testable code Requirements: Degree in Computer Science or similar field (Master's degree preferred).2+ years experience of industry experience in backend software engineering. Mastery of Python or Golang and scalable backend design including databases, queues and blob storage. Experience with any IoT devices is a huge plus. Experience working in an agile team software development environment. Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment. Comfortable with SQL, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, AWS, Docker, etc. Nice to have experience with H.264 and H.265 encodings, FFMPEG and other streaming technologies Annual Pay Range Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable). Estimated Annual Pay Range $130,000 — $280,000 USD Verkada Is An Equal Opportunity Employer As an equal opportunity employer, Verkada is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at Verkada will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy.