Senior Backend Software Engineer - Viewing StationNew San Mateo, CA United States

$130,000 - $280,000/Yr

Verkada - San Mateo, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Mateo, CA

1,001-5,000 employees

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior Backend Software Engineer will be a key member of the Viewing Station engineering team at Verkada, responsible for designing, coding, and testing backend APIs to support the company's real-time video monitoring device. This role involves solving complex technical challenges, scaling custom solutions, and ensuring the smooth operation of backend services. The engineer will have opportunities to contribute to the entire tech stack and improve their craft by leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Be 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 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-haves

• Interest or experience working with MDM solutions.
• Interest or experience in Web Frontend development (Typescript and/or React).
• Interest or experience in tvOS development.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and skills.
• Discretionary bonuses and/or equity in the company in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).