Verkada
Posted 2y ago

Software Engineer - Data Platform

Verkada
San Mateo, California, United States
$125k-$160k/yrOnsiteFull Time
Responsibilities
  • building infrastructure
  • designing solutions
  • making decisions
Requirements
  • Requires 1–3 years of software engineering experience and proficiency in Python and Go. Experience with distributed data systems such as Spark
  • Presto/Trino, or Hive is preferred
Technical tools mentioned
PythonGoSparkPrestoTrinoHive

Job description

Who We Are

Verkada is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management. 

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation, more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million Verkada devices are deployed across 170+ countries. 

Overview

As a member of our Data Platform team, you will build the data infrastructure, products, and services that enable teams across the company to make data-driven decisions and ultimately deliver high-quality products to our users.

We believe in tools over processes, automation over operations, metrics over anecdotes, iteration over perfection, and proactive over reactive. You will have the opportunity to own impactful projects end-to-end and solve challenging data and infrastructure problems at scale.

Responsibilities:

  • Build and evolve analytical infrastructure that enables teams to easily collect, transform, analyze, and understand data.
  • Build real-time data infrastructure to support streaming data processing and provide real-time visibility into critical business and system metrics.
  • Work cross-functionally to build data products used across the company, including by Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and other teams.
  • Design and implement solutions that ensure data quality, reliability, security, and compliance.
  • Make informed technical decisions and take end-to-end ownership of the services and applications you build.

Requirements:

  • 1-3 years of software engineering experience.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt to evolving priorities.
  • Passion for product quality and building reliable systems that enable teams to move quickly.
  • Strong interest in cross-functional collaboration and solving problems beyond traditional team boundaries.
  • Proficiency in Python and Go.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with distributed data systems and technologies such as Spark, Presto/Trino, Hive, or similar technologies.
  • Strong interest in cross-functional collaboration and solving problems beyond traditional team boundaries.

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

  • Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
  • Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
  • Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
  • Expanded mental health support
  • Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
  • Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
  • Professional development stipend
  • Fertility Stipend
  • Wellness/fitness benefits
  • Healthy lunches provided daily
  • Commuter benefits

Additional Information

  • We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range
$125,000$160,000 USD

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.

Your application will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. 

About Verkada

Sells integrated AI-powered cloud physical security hardware and software.

Year founded
2016
Employees
2600
Organization type
Private
Latest investment
Raised $20.00M Series E (2025) — led by CapitalG
Subsidiaries
Headquarters
US

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