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# back-end engineers

- **Company:** Verkada Inc.
- **Location:** San Mateo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Memcached, MySQL, Systems Development Life Cycle, Redis, Cloud Services, Software Engineering, Openapi, Scripting, Google Cloud, ReactJS, Caching, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Grpc, Microservices
- **Published:** August 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-backend-engineer-san-mateo-ca--2e825223-7b17-467b-9791-476c22b52b76

## About the Role

* Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering
 * 4+ years of relevant industry experience
 * Experience in building and scaling access systems to millions of users around the world
 * Strong written and verbal communication skills
 * Mastery of at least one of Python or Go
 * Experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL)
 * Experience with key-value storage systems (Redis, Memcached)
 * Experience with distributed queueing (Kafka) and caching (Redis, Memcached)
 * Experience with cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
 * Experience with React
 * Experience with GRPC and API specifications
 * Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week, Access Control, Air Quality, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Kafka, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Caching, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Distributed Computing, Employee Retention, Fitness, Fortune 500 Customers, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), Healthcare, Microservices, Microsoft Windows Azure, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Redis, Relational Databases (RDBMS), Sales, Scalable System Development, Software Engineering, Writing Skills, memcached

## Description

We are looking for experienced back-end engineers to join the Verkada Core Command team. We are scaling out the Auth, Users, Roles and Audit capabilities of Verkada''s core products to service the largest organizations in the world.

What You''ll Do

 * Design scalable control planes and data primitives for all Verkada products
 * Build scalable distributed systems capable of handling high traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed around the world.
 * Spin up new services in a microservices architecture


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