Job brief: Backend Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Verkada's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-06 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
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• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $140,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: San Mateo, CA United States · Bay-HQ office
• Posted: 2026-11-05

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Not stated. The posting does not state a level or years of experience.

Must have

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.

Conditions

• Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and Verkada is at the center of it.
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

Main duties

• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed backend systems capable of handling high-volume traffic from hundreds of thousands of devices deployed globa…
• Develop and optimize backend services, APIs, data models, and infrastructure components to support reliable product functionality across Verkada’s platform.
• Design scalable control planes and data primitives for Verkada products, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Build and deploy new backend services within a microservices architecture, including service design, implementation, testing, monitoring, and production supp…
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, firmware, and frontend engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver backend systems that support …

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs across the U.S.: $140k a year (3,398 listings, 147 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Verkada's 274 open listings, 62% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Verkada hires

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