Software Engineer (AC Server Infrastructure)
San Mateo, California / Engineering Software - Access Control / Full-Time About Verkada At Verkada, were rethinking what it means to be physically safe.
Today, we build security cameras that detect action, identify danger and help keep people and places safe and secure. Using a combination of software and hardware, were transforming an industry that has seen little innovation for decadesand we already support thousands of customers.
But this is just the beginning. We envision a world in which security systems feel as seamless and modern as the organizations they protect and our enterprise solution becomes a model for not just business security, but public security as well.
We are a small, dynamic team focused on building cloud-managed access control systems. Its Verkadas second major product line and is already growing faster than the flagship cameras product.
Its a startup within a startup with a fair amount of autonomy. We are comprised of a dedicated firmware team that writes software for our hardware devices, server team in charge of our distributed computing services, and the front-end team in charge of the Verkada Command experience and the Verkada Pass app experience.
This role is on our server team building our distributed computing infrastructure and is ideal for fresh university graduates from Bachelor's or Master's program or individuals that have less than 3 years of experience .
Verkada is on the LinkedIn Top Startups 2020 list and #4 on the Forbes Americas Best Startup Employers 2020. In January 2020, the company raised $80 million Series C at a $1.
6 billion post-money valuation and is backed by top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital, First Round, Meritech and Siemens (Next47). Who you are
- Excited by new products and startups
- You think about delivering best-in-class products and experiences - not features
- You can take a less-than-fully-fleshed-out product idea and drive it to completion
- You are excited about building distributed fault-tolerant systems
Experience / Education
- Strong competence in at least one common server programming language (Python, Go)
- Knowledge of scalable backend design, including databases, queues and blob storage
- Experience working in an agile team software development environment
- BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science
Recommended Skills
- Software Architecture and API design
- Good understanding of databases including SQL, relational database design, performance and load characteristics, transactions and locking
- Experience with some of the following technologies :
- Distributed data stores (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB) and distributed data warehouses (Redshift, BigQuery)
- Embedded systems (Raspbian, Embedded Linux, FreeRTOS)
- Docker
- Asynchronous data processing and stream processing (Kafka, Amazon Kinesis)
- Distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Hadoop, Google Cloud Dataflow)