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Staff Backend Engineer - Licensing & Revenue Platform

Verkada · San Mateo, CA United States · On-site

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About Verkada

Modern, cloud-managed security cameras, access control, and smart building solutions in a single, fully integrated security system. Free 30-day trial. Easy setup. Backed by General Catalyst, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

The Core Licensing & Devices team owns the layer that turns Verkada's licenses into revenue: a double-entry accounting ledger that reconciles every license into daily revenue recognition. This is the system Finance closes the books on and the one auditors trace, so every entry has to be right. As Verkada scales past millions of devices and the business matures toward tighter reporting and audit requirements, this system moves from important to load-bearing. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years building backend services with strong correctness, consistency, and durability guarantees at scale
  • Comfort working shoulder-to-shoulder with Finance and Accounting — or a track record of getting deep in an unfamiliar, high-stakes domain fast
  • Fluency in Python or Go, other backend languages can contribute to your experience, but the interviews will be conducted in one of the above
  • A track record of partnering with Finance, Accounting, or other non-engineering stakeholders, translating policy and ambiguity into systems they can rely on without surprise
  • At the Staff level: the ability to set technical direction across teams, shape shared architecture, and raise the bar on how the org designs and operates critical financial systems
  • Bonus: experience preparing financial systems for audit (SOX or external financial audit)
More about this role

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.

The Core Licensing & Devices team owns the layer that turns Verkada's licenses...

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