Senior Backend Engineer - Streaming

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