What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer - Data Platform position at Verkada?
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.
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
- 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.