Senior Software Engineer – Storage Systems

About the Role

The Storage team owns the distributed infrastructure that transforms every Verkada camera into an intelligent, self-contained recording device. We are the experts in edge storage, responsible for designing and optimizing the system that manages video data directly on the camera. Our mandate is to guarantee the unmatched reliability, endurance, and security of the local storage media, ensuring video is preserved instantly and securely, even during network outages.

As a System Software Engineer (Storage), you will own diverse topics on the storage stack, including ensuring integrity of NAND storage, debugging storage technologies such as the Linux MMC driver, ext4, and UBIFS filesystems, and improving the reliability of our cloud backup system.

What You'll Do

• Own the camera storage stack that enables storage of big AI models and large video files, while maximizing storage utilization and reliability.
• Collaborate with the Hardware team and external storage vendors to define and validate the next generation of flash storage systems.
• Innovate by designing new storage systems that maximize company goals across multiple dimensions like hardware cost, endurance, and throughput.
• Own storage reliability metrics, using data to drive system improvements.
• Strategize with the Streaming team to develop innovative solutions for superior video retention.

What You Bring

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or similar degree).
• Over 5 years of software development experience in C, with additional experience in higher-level languages such as C++ or Go considered an asset.
• Strong familiarity with low-level systems topics, including file system layout, memory management, the Yocto build system, device drivers, kernel debugging, eBPF, and the MMC protocol.
• Backend development experience in distributed systems, containerization, and microservices (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar) is a huge plus.