Senior Backend Engineer - Intercom
verkada • San Mateo, CA United States
Posted: August 18, 2026
Job Description
About the Role
We are a small, dynamic team focused on building cloud-managed intercom systems. Intercom is our second newest major product line and is off to the best start of any product in Verkada’s history. Our intercom allows customers to receive calls from anywhere - at their desk or on their phone - with rich video and 2-way audio, and we have a lot more to build.
We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You’ll be working alongside a dynamic team of firmware, mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line.
Join the fastest-growing frontier in our AI for the physical world portfolio: Intelligent Intercom Systems. The Intercom product line is a critical component of our intelligent building ecosystem, delivering rich, low-latency, multimodal interactions (video, audio, and access control integration) directly at the environment’s edge. This is a "startup within a startup" opportunity where you will have significant ownership over the architectural direction of this burgeoning product line, which is already the most successful launch in Verkada history. We have ambitious plans to disrupt , including AI-driven visitor screening and remote environmental sensing. You will work alongside firmware, mobile, and frontend experts to drive this core element of our physical security layer.
Who You Are
- Excited by new products and startups
- You think about delivering best-in-class products and experiences - not features
- You can take a less-than-fully-fleshed-out product idea and drive it to completion
- BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science
What You Bring
- 7+ years of industry backend software engineering experience
- 4+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer at a rapidly growing start up or innovative company.
- Experience driving technical direction and leading engineers on project execution
- Architect scalable systems and design latency sensitive applications for our Intercoms deployed around the world.
- Experience collaborating cross functionally to design complex systems with simple and robust backend APIs
- History of shipping out significant products. We are looking for someone who can own backend systems end-to-end.
- Ownership mentality, resolving problems that span beyond team boundaries
- Deep expertise with relational databases. Postgres experience a plus
- Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang
- Experience with Kubernetes a plus
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.
Additional Content
About the Role
We are a small, dynamic team focused on building cloud-managed intercom systems. Intercom is our second newest major product line and is off to the best start of any product in Verkada’s history. Our intercom allows customers to receive calls from anywhere - at their desk or on their phone - with rich video and 2-way audio, and we have a lot more to build.
We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You’ll be working alongside a dynamic team of firmware, mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line.
Join the fastest-growing frontier in our AI for the physical world portfolio: Intelligent Intercom Systems. The Intercom product line is a critical component of our intelligent building ecosystem, delivering rich, low-latency, multimodal interactions (video, audio, and access control integration) directly at the environment’s edge. This is a "startup within a startup" opportunity where you will have significant ownership over the architectural direction of this burgeoning product line, which is already the most successful launch in Verkada history. We have ambitious plans to disrupt , including AI-driven visitor screening and remote environmental sensing. You will work alongside firmware, mobile, and frontend experts to drive this core element of our physical security layer.
Who You Are
- Excited by new products and startups
- You think about delivering best-in-class products and experiences - not features
- You can take a less-than-fully-fleshed-out product idea and drive it to completion
- BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science
What You Bring
- 7+ years of industry backend software engineering experience
- 4+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer at a rapidly growing start up or innovative company.
- Experience driving technical direction and leading engineers on project execution
- Architect scalable systems and design latency sensitive applications for our Intercoms deployed around the world.
- Experience collaborating cross functionally to design complex systems with simple and robust backend APIs
- History of shipping out significant products. We are looking for someone who can own backend systems end-to-end.
- Ownership mentality, resolving problems that span beyond team boundaries
- Deep expertise with relational databases. Postgres experience a plus
- Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang
- Experience with Kubernetes a plus
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.