Senior Backend Engineer, Growth

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.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Verkada’s Growth Engineering team, you will build products and platforms that directly impact pipeline, revenue, and the effectiveness of our go-to-market teams.

A growing focus of the team is applied AI: turning new model capabilities into reliable products that help Sales and Marketing teams access trusted information, make better decisions, and execute complex workflows. You will build across agent workflows, enterprise integrations, evaluation systems, and backend infrastructure, while also contributing to the broader systems that power lead management, attribution, and sales and marketing automation.

This role is ideal for an engineer excited to apply advances in AI to real business problems. Success requires strong product and engineering judgment, a willingness to work directly with users, and the ability to turn ambiguous opportunities into reliable production software.

This role reports to our Engineering Manager and is based on-site at our headquarters in San Mateo, California, five days a week.

What You’ll Do

• Build applied AI products and backend systems that directly impact pipeline, revenue, and the effectiveness of Verkada’s go-to-market teams.
• Turn emerging AI capabilities into reliable product experiences, including agent workflows, tools, integrations, evaluation systems, and guardrails.
• Work directly with Sales, Marketing, and Operations stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities and translate ambiguous problems into shippable software.
• Design and operate APIs, servi