Senior Backend Engineer - Auth Platform

Who We Are

Verkada is the largest cloud-based B2B physical security platform company in the world. Only 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 16 offices across three continents, 1,700+ full-time employees and 20,000+ customers across 70+ countries.

Overview

We are looking for an experienced back-end engineer to join the Verkada Core Platform team and work on our Auth Platform. Authentication systems require innovative thinking and creative problem-solving to balance security requirements with usability and performance considerations. Every line of code written contributes to safeguarding sensitive data and enhancing user experiences.

This team builds the platform and shared services that enable Verkada to quickly bring to market a suite of IoT devices and to power Verkada's "operating system for buildings. As a member of the Core team, you will be the architect, designer, and developer in a broad range of projects. You will have the opportunity to work on critical systems that directly impact the security, usability, and reliability of Verkada's products or services.

Engineers on this team work closely with all teams at Verkada, including frontend developers, product managers, security experts, and operations teams to solve problems and drive innovation.

You will:

• Define and execute on engineering roadmap to improve Auth API and platform
• Improve performance and scalability of Auth platform and ensure that our systems scale with the business as we grow and move upmarket
• Partner with engineering teams at Verkada to address new and existing Auth use cases
• Improve the user experience by implementing seamless authentication flows- single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• Ensure that Verkada's authentication systems comply with relevant regulations and standards
• Work with high concurrency key-value storage systems (Redis, DynamoDB)
• Spin up new services in a microservices architecture
• Help lead and grow junior engineers

Education and Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or similar technical field of study
• Experience driving technical direction and leading teams towards project execution
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Mastery of at least one common server programming language (Python, Go)
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, etc
• Experience with distributed systems at scale

Perks & Benefits:

• Generous company paid medical, dental & vision insurance coverage
• Unlimited paid time off & 11 companywide paid holidays
• Wellness allowance
• Commuter benefits
• Healthy lunches and dinners provided daily
• Generous paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

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.