Senior Backend Engineer - Alerts and Operations

About the Team

Alerts are an important part of the Verkada ecosystem. Our customers rely on alert notifications to stay on top of live events such as persons of interest entering buildings, doors forced open after hours, or letting delivery personnel in. The Alerts and Operations team builds and maintains end-to-end systems for Events, Alerts, and Notifications, processing upwards of 500 million events weekly from over a million devices worldwide.

Our systems process real-time events from Verkada's global device fleet, delivering intelligent, actionable alerts through multiple channels including email, SMS, push notifications, and webhooks.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain scalable backend systems that process hundreds of millions of events, alerts, and notifications weekly from security devices deployed worldwide.
• Lead technical design discussions and make architectural decisions for new features across event processing, alert rule management, and notification delivery services.
• Own complex systems end-to-end, from initial design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
• Drive the development of backend infrastructure integrated with AI capabilities.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to Verkada's public API used for customer integrations with security and operations systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineering leaders, and cross-functional teams to define and deliver high-impact products.

What You Bring

• Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer with a track record of building and operating large-scale distributed systems, ideally at a rapidly growing startup or innovative company.
• Deep expertise in Go, Python, Java, or C++ with strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proven experience designing and working with both relational (Postgres, MySQL) and non-relational databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch).
• Track record of leading technical initiatives, making architectural decisions, and delivering complex systems from concept to production.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message streaming platforms (Kafka, SQS).
• Experience working in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and elevate team technical standards.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite five days per week.